Brian Deane

Brian Deane
Personnel
Surname	Brian Christopher Deane
birthday	7th February 1968
place of birth	Leeds ,  England
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
1983-1985	Doncaster Rovers
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1985-1988	Doncaster Rovers	66 (12)
1988-1993	Sheffield United	197 (82)
1993-1997	Leeds United	138 (32)
1997-1998	Sheffield United	24 (11)
1998	Benfica Lisbon	18 0(7)
1998-2001	Middlesbrough FC	87 (18)
2001-2003	Leicester City	52 (19)
2003-2004	West Ham United	26 0(6)
2004-2005	Leeds United	31 0(6)
2005	Sunderland AFC	4 0(0)
2005	Perth Glory	7 0(1)
2005-2006	Sheffield United	2 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1991	England B	3 0(0)
1991-1992	England	3 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2012-2014	Sarpsborg 08 FF
1 Only league games are given.

Brian Christopher Deane (born February 7, 1968 in Leeds ) is a former English football player and current coach . As a striker he was active for many years for Sheffield United and during his time for Leeds United he scored the first goal in the history of the Premier League on August 15, 1992 .

Athletic career

Club career

Deane played for United's youth team in his home town of Leeds in 1984 . There, however, they did not see the necessary development potential in him, and so he joined the Doncaster Rovers in December 1985 . As a tall center forward who, in contrast to the prototype, looked lankier and thinner in this position, he gradually established himself with the third division and scored ten goals in the 1987/88 season. He moved to league rivals Sheffield United in July 1988 . In the "Blades" Deane started right away and together with Tony Agana he formed a storm duo that scored 45 league goals in the 1988/89 season and helped the club to rise to the second division via the runner- up. The following year succeeded in another second place, the direct march through to the top English division and Deane was this year "top scorer" of Sheffield United. With his goal after five minutes on the first match day of the 1992/93 season against eventual champions Manchester United , he went down in history on August 15, 1992, as he had scored the first goal in the history of the newly created Premier League (later if he converted another penalty and the game was won 2: 1). He scored a total of 14 league goals, including a hat trick against Ipswich Town (3-0) and moved in June 1993 to league rivals and last year's champions Leeds United. The transfer fee of 2.9 million pounds was a record for both clubs - for Leeds in terms of a player purchase and for Sheffield in terms of sales proceeds.

The high purchase price initially turned out to be a burden for Deane. Only after the engagement of the new "striker" Tony Yeboah did he find good form again on the left and in the 1994/95 season he was elected the club's best player of the year. The four-year-long Leeds period, however, was somewhat below expectations and after just 32 league goals during this time, he returned in the summer of 1997 for 1.5 million pounds to ex-club Sheffield United, who had meanwhile been relegated to the second division, back. He stayed there for half a year, scoring eleven league goals before moving to Portugal to Benfica Lisbon in January 1998 . At Benfica, the Scot Graeme Souness had taken over the head coach role, signed a number of British players and Deane was considered the "second choice" behind Ian Wright , who Souness had not been able to loose from Arsenal .

After just nine months and seven goals in 18 league games, Deane's brief adventure in Portugal ended with the looming resignation of Souness. He was hired back in the Premier League in October 1998 at Middlesbrough FC , who just had serious injury problems in the squad and was willing to pay three million pounds for the transfer. In Middlesbrough he spent a little more than three years and although he played 87 Premier League games, his 19-goal yield was not quite as extensive as before. For only 150,000 pounds, he moved to league rivals Leicester City in late November 2001 . With the "Foxes" he was relegated from the Premier League in mid-2002 , before he had a significant share in the direct resurgence as second division runners-up with 13 league goals in the 2002/03 season . Shortly thereafter, the now 35-year-old moved back a league lower to West Ham United at the end of October 2003 . There he scored six league goals in the 2003/04 season, including the late equalization to 1-1 on the last day of the game against Wigan Athletic , which made Crystal Palace move into the play-offs instead of Wigan and again defeated West Ham in the final.

For the following season 2004/05 he hired a second time at Leeds United, which had recently been relegated to the second division. It remained with a short interlude and in March 2005 he joined the AFC Sunderland , which was preparing to rise as a second division champion in the Premier League. To this, Deane contributed only marginally with four substitutions in April 2005 and then he tried to gain a foothold in the Australian A-League at Perth Glory . During this time, however, he was obviously suffering from a long-term injury and returned to England after a few months. For the third time, he joined Sheffield United as a squad supplement in December 2005. At the beginning of the 2006/07 season he completed two more games as a substitute and then ended his active career.

English national team

Deane was often mocked as a tall footballer with a rather slim stature despite his scoring threat ("Bambi on the ice") and so the English national coach Graham Taylor surprised in the summer of 1991 with his nomination for the upcoming friendship tour through Australasia. He benefited from the fact that Taylor largely waived the established forces at the request of many club coaches. He made his debut on June 3, 1991 by substitution against New Zealand (1-0) on the side of Gary Lineker . In the next game against the same opponent, he was in the starting line-up, with his strike partner here being Ian Wright. Since many experts assumed a one-off appointment for Deane, the renewed consideration in September 1992 was another surprise, but his third appearance against Spain (0: 1) was also his last.

Coaching stations

After Deane worked in Leeds as a consultant for a law firm, he returned to the football business. He gained his first coaching experience in the youth sector of his ex-club Sheffield United and then at the University of Leeds (initially on a voluntary basis and then as a permanent employee). He won the Northern Division title with the Leeds students at British Universities and Colleges Sport in 2010 and then tried to switch to professional football. This turned out to be difficult in his English homeland and so at the end of November 2012 he took over the first job as head coach at Sarpsborg 08 FF in Norway . The high standing of English football in Norway and the 1990 Leeds United team in Sarpsborg in particular favored his selection. With Sarpsborg he succeeded in calendar year 2013 as a climber of the league (indirectly via the relegation games). In the following year he was able to celebrate a respectable success in eighth place in the league with the second lowest budget in the league , which was joined by making it to the semi-finals in the cup . In 2015 Deane returned to England and took on a new role at Sheffield United as a coach at the local academy and ambassador for the club.

Web links

• Brian Deane in the soccerbase.com database
• Profile page on barryhugmansfootballers.com
• Brian Deane as England international

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Deane linked with Benfica" (BBC Sport)
2. ^ "Deane joins Boro for £ 3million" (The Guardian)
3. ↑ "Brian DEANE - Leeds United" (Sporting Heroes)
4. ↑ "Deane: Brian Christopher (Brian)" (Leeds United FC History)
5. ↑ "Brian DEANE - England - Biography 1991-92" (Sporting Heroes)
6. ^ "Former Leeds and Sheffield United striker Deane lands manager's job in Norway" (Daily Mail)
7. ↑ "Why are there so few black football managers?" (The Guardian)
8. ^ "Brian Deane back at Sheffield United in new role" (Eurosport)