Brian Kidd

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Brian Kidd
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Personnel
Surname Brian Kidd
birthday May 29, 1949
place of birth Collyhurst , Manchester ,  England
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1963-1966 Manchester United
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1966-1974 Manchester United 203 (52)
1974-1976 Arsenal FC 77 (30)
1976-1979 Manchester City 98 (44)
1979-1980 Everton FC 40 (12)
1980-1982 Bolton Wanderers 43 (14)
1981 →  Atlanta Chiefs  (loan) 27 (22)
1982-1983 Fort Lauderdale Strikers 44 (33)
1984 Minnesota Strikers 13 0(8)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1970 England 2 0(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1984-1985 AFC Barrow
1986 Preston North End
1998-1999 Blackburn Rovers
2009– Manchester City (assistant coach)
2013 → Manchester City (interim)
1 Only league games are given.

Brian Kidd (born May 29, 1949 in Collyhurst , Manchester ) is a retired English football player and current coach . With Manchester United , he won the European Cup as a player on his 19th birthday in 1968 and was later successful as assistant coach to Alex Ferguson for the same club in the 1990s .

Player career

Born in Collyhurst, Kidd came into contact with Manchester United at an early age. The family consisted of supporters of this club and so it was not surprising that he laced his football boots with the “Red Devils” when he was 14 years old. Around eight months later, Manchester United officially accepted him into the youth division in August 1964, and Kidd became part of the professional division in 1966 before he came of age.

Manchester United (1966-74)

He played his first competitive game on August 12, 1967 in the Charity Shield encounter against Tottenham Hotspur , which ended 3: 3. In the championship, Kidd made his debut a week later against Everton and lost 3-1 at Goodison Park . He scored his first goal on his fifth appearance at West Ham United (3-1) and as an up-and-coming talent, the young striker surprised with his 50 competitive games in the 1967/68 season. He scored 17 goals and although the English championship as the reigning title holder was narrowly missed in second place, an early climax should wait for Brian Kidd in the final of the European Cup of the national champions. On his 19th birthday, he and his team faced Portuguese champions Benfica Lisbon at Wembley Stadium . The game ended with 1: 1 goals after 90 minutes and went into extra time . There he increased by header goal after the 2-1 by George Best to the interim 3-1 before Bobby Charlton marked the 4-1 final score and brought the most prestigious European club title to Manchester.

After the successful season, Manchester United got into a sporting crisis and Kidd was only able to contribute four goals to eleventh place in the final table. In the 1969/70 season he found back to his accuracy, but the break-up of the successful United generation continued in sporting mediocrity. At the end of the season, Kidd completed his first international match for England against Northern Ireland on April 21, 1970 and was in the provisional 27-man squad for the 1970 World Cup in Mexico . Although he scored his first goal in a direct preparatory game against Ecuador in Quito (2-0), Kidd should not be considered when naming Alf Ramsey's 22-man squad and take the flight home.

Kidd never returned as a player in the national team and Ramsey henceforth preferred strikers such as Geoff Hurst , Francis Lee , Jeff Astle , Peter Osgood , Allan Clarke , Martin Chivers , Mick Channon and Kevin Keegan . The downward spiral continues at Manchester United. If the club just managed to stay up in the 1972/73 season, relegation could not be averted a year later . The formerly promising talent came only once in the last 13 games and after 52 goals in 203 league games Kidd left Manchester United in August 1974 for 110,000 British pounds for Arsenal FC .

Arsenal FC (1974-76)

At Arsenal FC, Kidd should primarily replace Ray Kennedy, who had migrated to Liverpool FC . In the two years in which he played for the Londoners, he found back to his old level of performance with 30 goals in 77 league games. Already on his debut he scored the winning goal for a 1-0 win against Leicester City and two more goals in the second game for a 4-0 win against Manchester City , but in the following years his team should not act consistently. Ten games without a win and five different attacking partners for Kidd were just as characteristic during this time as a sudden 3-1 win over the eventual champions Derby County and the leap into the FA Cup quarter-finals.

The prospects worsened for Kidd in the 1975/76 season and Arsenal FC appeared to be looking forward to relegation in February 1976 before they were saved with a 6-1 win over West Ham United . Not only there Kidd got three hits; Overall, with eleven league goals, he played a major role in the fact that the "Gunners" in 17th place "got away with a black eye". After the end of the season, Terry Neill succeeded Bertie Mee . He transferred Kidd to Manchester City for £ 100,000 and signed Malcolm Macdonald from Newcastle United in the vacant position .

Manchester City (1976-1979)

Kidd returned to Manchester, now wearing the sky blue jersey of local rival City. He scored again on his debut in the first game of the season and with his most successful league result in one season (21 goals), he immediately won the runner-up with only one point behind the new title holder FC Liverpool . He stood in the team of Tony Book at the side of offensive players such as Joe Royle , Dennis Tueart and Peter Barnes and also in the 1977/78 season Kidd developed with 20 goals in 50 competitive games to the best goalscorer of his team. He finished fourth and in the subsequent 1978/79 season he contributed five goals in the UEFA Cup round , which ended for the "Citizens" in the quarter-finals against Borussia Mönchengladbach .

The championship season 1978/79 ended with a disappointing 15th place. Kidd was already on the "hit list" before the end of the season when the new coach Malcolm Allison was undergoing extensive changes .

Career finale (1979–1984)

Kidd hired on March 29, 1979 for a transfer fee of 150,000 pounds at Everton and played there in the current season nine games. After another full season in 1979/80 , Kidd's career ended in the top English division. He moved to the Second Division for the Bolton Wanderers . There he played between 1980 and 1982, and in 1981 he was loaned to the Atlanta Chiefs in the North American professional league NASL . In the United States he also spent his last active footballing years until 1984, where he came to the train for the Fort Lauderdale Strikers and the Minnesota Strikers .

Coaching activities

Immediately after his playing career, Kidd was coach of the low-class AFC Barrow in 1984 and was briefly active two years later with the fourth division Preston North End .

The call of his old club Manchester United followed when Alex Ferguson hired him as the new youth coach in 1988 . In doing so, Kidd would play an important role in developing talents like David Beckham , Paul Scholes and Ryan Giggs . When Archie Knox joined the Glasgow Rangers in 1991 , he was promoted to Ferguson's new assistant coach and had a number of successes in this role. These included the League Cup (1992), four English championships (1993, 1994, 1996, 1997) and two FA Cup trophies (1994 and 1996). For a possible engagement with Manchester City, he had not received any approval from United in June 1995.

After 1998 more advances had been rejected by Everton , he joined the first division relegation candidate Blackburn Rovers in December 1998 . He did not succeed in relegation, however, and when his team started weakly in the second division season 1999/2000, Kidd's Blackburn adventure ended in November 1999 after less than a year.

The next station was Leeds United , where Kidd initially worked as a youth coach again and later rose to Kotrainer under David O'Leary and Terry Venables . When Peter Reid was the new coach of the "Whites" in May 2003, Kidd left the club. At the same time, in January 2003 he had already taken on the position of assistant for the English national team under Sven-Göran Eriksson . He had to quit this job only about a month before Euro 2004 because he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer . After his recovery in February 2006, he was interviewed as a kotrainer at Sunderland FC , where Roy Keane , one of his former United protégés, had become a trainer in August 2006. However, he joined Sheffield United under head coach Neil Warnock and stayed in office when Bryan Robson later took over the sporting direction. It was only after his resignation in February 2008 that Kidd also ended his work with the "Blades".

On February 11, 2009, Kidd was assistant to the interim coach Paul Hart at Portsmouth FC and stayed with "Pompey" until August 2009, after no contract extension had followed. The next engagement followed in September 2009 at Manchester City . There he was initially intended as technical director for development work, but became his assistant after changing coach to Roberto Mancini in December 2009. After the release of Mancini in May 2013, Kidd supervised the team for the last two games of the season.

Success as a player

References

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ^ "Brian Kidd - England - 1970" (www.sporting-heroes.net)
  2. ^ "Brian Kidd - Manchester United FC - 1966-1974" (www.sporting-heroes.net)
  3. ^ "Brian Kidd - Arsenal FC - 1974-1976" (www.sporting-heroes.net)
  4. ^ A b "Brian Kidd - Manchester City FC - 1976-1979" (www.sporting-heroes.net)
  5. ↑ "Leeds ax Gray and Kidd" (BBC Sport)
  6. ^ "Kidd gets England role" (BBC Sport)
  7. ^ "McClaren nets England role" (BBC Sport)
  8. ↑ "Kidd keen on return to coaching" (BBC Sport)
  9. ↑ "Kidd snubs Sunderland for Blades" (BBC Sport)
  10. ^ "Blackwell in for Robson at Blades" (BBC Sport)
  11. ^ "Portsmouth and Kidd part company" (BBC Sport)
  12. ↑ Roberto Mancini sacked by Manchester City as Pellegrini waits in wings , Guardian article , May 13, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Kidd, Brian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Collyhurst , Manchester