Bobby Kennedy (soccer player)

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Bobby Kennedy
Personnel
Surname Robert Kennedy
birthday June 23, 1937
place of birth Motherwell ,  Scotland
position Full-back , outside runner
Juniors
Years station
Coltness United
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1957-1961 FC Kilmarnock 85 (1)
1961-1969 Manchester City 219 (9)
1969-1971 Grimsby Town 84 (1)
1972-1973 Drogheda United
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1969 Scotland U-23
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1969-1971 Grimsby Town
1975-1988 Bradford City
1 Only league games are given.

Robert "Bobby" Kennedy (born June 23, 1937 in Motherwell ) is a former Scottish football player and coach . He was active with Manchester City in the 1960s and was often a regular. When the club won the English championship in the 1967/68 season , he was mostly only left with the role of substitute.

Athletic career

Kennedy started his football career at home with Coltness United , before finally joining FC Kilmarnock in 1957 after trial sessions with Queen of the South and FC Clyde . During his time there, after a serious illness that left him paused for eight months, he played a total of 85 league games as an outside runner and the greatest successes were winning the runner-up in 1960 and reaching the FA Cup final in the same year and in the following year League Cup , with both games lost 2-0 to Glasgow Rangers . In 1969 he had also played an U-23 international match for Scotland against the Netherlands. For a transfer fee of 42,500 pounds, he then moved to England to the first division club Manchester City . There he became a full-back retrained staying for eight years at the club and was mostly a fixture in the team. After relegation in 1963 and rising again in 1966 , the exception was the 1967/68 championship season . Kennedy's career was coming to an end at the highest level and he only played six championship matches, which was not enough to receive an official championship medal. After a total of 254 competitive appearances for Manchester City, he moved to the fourth division Grimsby Town in 1969 .

In Grimsby, Kennedy was player- coach until 1971 , although his engagement ended only moderately successful with 23rd place in 1969 and then with 16th and 19th place in the following seasons. After retiring, he acted in the 1972/73 season in Ireland for Drogheda United before it pulled him back to the dugout. He initially worked in the youth division of Bradford City and then briefly at Dundalk FC and Bradford Park Avenue . In January 1975 he followed Bryan Edwards as head coach of Bradford City. He finally led the club to tenth place in the fourth division and in the 1975/76 season he recorded a respectable success by making it into the quarter-finals of the FA Cup - there they were defeated by the eventual titleholder FC Southampton just 0-1. Probably the best game under his direction was the 2-1 victory in the first knockout round at Norwich City . In the following season 1976/77 they were promoted to the third division. There he was released in January 1978, following a series of seven defeats in controversial circumstances. He later worked in the coaching staff of the Blackburn Rovers before he finally retired from the football business. He continued to live in Bradford with his family and both his son as a goalkeeping coach and daughter Lorraine as coach of the women's team held positions at Bradford City. He remained loyal to Manchester City as well and he joined the club's ex-players' association.

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Individual references / footnotes

  1. ↑ "Scotland U23 Kennedy, Bobby" (fitbastats)
  2. ↑ "Grimsby Town" (fchd.info)
  3. ^ "A tale of two Citys for Kennedy" (Telegraph & Argus)


personal data
SURNAME Kennedy, Bobby
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kennedy, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Motherwell