Colin Harvey

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Colin Harvey
Personnel
Surname James Colin Harvey
birthday November 16, 1944
place of birth Liverpool ,  England
position midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1962-1974 Everton FC 320 (18)
1974-1976 Sheffield Wednesday 45 0(2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1971 England 1 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1987-1990 Everton FC
1 Only league games are given.

James Colin Harvey (born November 16, 1944 in Liverpool ) is a former English football player and coach . Mostly employed in central midfield , he was part of the successful Everton team in the late 1960s and early 1970s , which won the English Cup in 1966 and the English championship four years later . With Alan Ball and Howard Kendall he formed a playful axis during this time, which became famous as "Holy Trinity" (Holy Trinity). After his active career he served the "Toffees" in various coaching functions, and during the next successful period of Everton FC in the 1980s he was assistant to Kendall, who has meanwhile been promoted to head coach. After his departure in 1987, Harvey himself worked for Everton with main sporting responsibility until 1990.

Athletic career

Player career

Although Harvey was born into a family that had always been passionate about Everton , he tried his hand at trial training at rivals Liverpool before he finally found his way to the Evertonians in October 1962. As suddenly as unexpected, he made his debut in the European Cup on September 25, 1963 , when the young talent was "thrown into the deep end" in front of 90,000 spectators in San Siro against Inter Milan . Responsible for this was the failure of defender Jimmy Gabriel , who was represented by attacking midfielder Dennis Stevens , and Stevens' vacant position had to be filled by Harvey. Although the game ended with a 0-1 defeat and elimination from the current competition, he showed a self-confident and mature performance that would also distinguish him in later years as a key player in the "Toffees".

After Harvey had to prove himself immediately afterwards in the reserve team, he gradually worked out a regular place in the A-team in the 1964/65 season. His contribution in midfield of Everton FC was initially a little misunderstood by his own supporters, as he was often in the shadow of Alan Ball and Howard Kendall . With his strengths, which in addition to his technical skills lay particularly in perseverance, speed and good combat behavior, he quickly earned the necessary recognition, and the midfield trio was later celebrated as the "Holy Trinity". Harvey was much more defensive oriented and was characterized more by qualities as a ball distributor and with a good positional play. A major weakness, however, was his low risk of goal scoring and the associated below-average rate with only 18 league players in twelve years. Even his decisive goal for the 1-0 victory in the 1966 FA Cup semi-finals against Manchester United was happy and unintentional in its formation. Shortly afterwards, he and his men won the English Cup final against Sheffield Wednesday 3-2, winning the first major trophy of his playing career. In the following years, Everton developed with the help of the Kendall-Ball-Harvey axis to a top team, which increasingly counted among the expanded championship candidates. About fifth place in the 1967/68 season and third place the following year, he finally won the championship title in the 1969/70 season . Harvey contributed 35 league games and three goals to the success, and his 1-0 opening goal with a long-range shot on matchday three against West Bromwich Albion (final score 2-0) was remembered by the fans of Everton FC.

Harvey was at the height of his career in 1970, and the professional world was amazed that he was not included in the English national team . After coach Alf Ramsey had nominated him for the 1969 tour to South America, he was absent from the English squad for the 1970 World Cup in Mexico . One of the main reasons for this was an eye injury from which he suffered for three months from Christmas 1969. Although he only missed a few competitive games at the club, his fitness level did not meet Ramsey's requirements at the end of the season. It was not until February 3, 1971, that Harvey played his first and only A international match against Malta (1-0). In the mid-1970s, Harvey had to pay tribute to his exhausting style of play in club football and shortly after the start of the 1974/75 season he left Everton in September 1974 for the second division team Sheffield Wednesday.

With the "Owls", Harvey played 45 league games in just under 14 months and was relegated to the third division in 1975 before ending his active career in 1976 due to injury.

Coaching career

Immediately after the end of his career, Harvey switched to the coaching business. He returned to Everton at the invitation of Billy Bingham , where Harvey took over the youth department from now on. Harvey won the 1977 FA Youth Cup with a youth team that was peppered with players like Kevin Ratcliffe and Steve McMahon . When Howard Kendall was transferred to the head coach role in 1981, this promoted him first to coach the reserve team and in 1983 to his direct assistant. In the role of "number 2" in the coaching staff, Harvey won the FA Cup under Kendall with Everton in 1984 , the European Cup Winners' Cup a year later and the English championship twice ( 1985 and 1987 ). Quite a few Everton players at that time attributed the great successes very emphatically to Harvey and so it was hardly surprising that he inherited Kendall, who had migrated to the Spanish Athletic Bilbao, in June 1987 .

Although there were no comparable successes as shortly before, Everton under Harvey always placed in the top third of the table in the three seasons up to 1990 and also reached the final in the English Cup in 1989 , which was lost 3-2 to Liverpool. On the last day of October 1990, his tenure as head coach ended after Everton was ranked 18th. had made a very poor start to the season. Shortly afterwards, Kendall, who returned, took over the sporting management again and Harvey subordinated himself again as his assistant in the hierarchy. The second period of the coaching team lasted until the end of 1993 and almost a year later Harvey hired as the "second man" behind player-coach Graeme Sharp at Oldham Athletic - in return for Sharp's commitment Joe Royle had moved from Oldham to Everton. After Sharp's resignation in March 1997, Harvey also left, who a short time later found a next employer as Adrian Heath's assistant at Burnley FC . However, when only a few months later Kendall presented a third time in Everton, Harvey returned to his origins there and took over the leadership of the youth team again. After 21 years he won the FA Youth Cup again with a new junior team and with young talents like Francis Jeffers and Wayne Rooney he reached the final again in 2002.

Due to persistent hip problems, Harvey ended his coaching engagement in 2003.

Title / Awards

As a player

As a trainer

literature

  • Ivan Ponting: Everton Player by Player . Hamlyn, London 1998, ISBN 0-600-59581-1 , pp. 63 .
  • Hayes, Dean P .: England! England! The Complete Who's Who of Players since 1946 . Sutton Publishing, 2004, ISBN 0-7509-3234-1 , pp. 222 .

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personal data
SURNAME Harvey, Colin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harvey, James Colin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Liverpool