Dave Mackay
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Personnel | ||
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Surname | David Craig Mackay | |
birthday | November 14, 1934 | |
place of birth | Edinburgh , Scotland | |
date of death | March 2, 2015 | |
Place of death | Nottingham , England | |
size | 172 cm | |
position | Defense , midfield | |
Men's | ||
Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
1953-1959 | Heart of Midlothian | 135 (25) |
1959-1968 | Tottenham Hotspur | 318 (51) |
1968-1971 | Derby County | 122 | (5)
1971-1972 | Swindon Town | 26 | (1)
National team | ||
Years | selection | Games (goals) |
1957-1965 | Scotland | 22 | (4)
Stations as a trainer | ||
Years | station | |
1971-1972 | Swindon Town | |
1972-1973 | Nottingham Forest | |
1973-1976 | Derby County | |
1977-1988 | Walsall FC | |
1978 | Al-Arabi | |
1983 | Al Shabab | |
1987 | Al-Arabi | |
1987-1989 | Doncaster Rovers | |
1989-1991 | Birmingham City | |
1991-1993 | Zamalek SC | |
1994-1995 | Qatar | |
1 Only league games are given. |
David Craig Mackay (born November 14, 1934 in Edinburgh , † March 2, 2015 in Nottingham ) was a Scottish football player and coach . He had his most successful time as a player in 1961, when he became English champion and cup winner with Tottenham Hotspur . As a coach, he led Derby County to the English Championship in 1975.
Career as a player
Mackay started his career as a player with Heart of Midlothian , a club from his hometown Edinburgh . In the 1957/58 season he won the Scottish Championship with his club in front of the Glasgow Rangers . The team scored 132 goals in 34 games, setting a new Scottish record. In 1955 and 1959 he also won the title in the Scottish League Cup and in 1956 the title in the Scottish FA Cup with a 3-1 win against Celtic Glasgow .
In March 1959 Mackay moved to Tottenham Hotspur in the English First Division for £ 32,000 . In the 1960/61 season he and his new team under coach Bill Nicholson won the English championship and the FA Cup . In the 1961/62 European Cup , Tottenham only failed in the semi-finals just below the eventual winner Benfica Lisbon around superstar Eusébio . But the following year they triumphed in the 1962/63 European Cup Winners' Cup with a 5-1 win over the Spanish Cup winners Atlético Madrid . Dave Mackay's teammates during this successful period included a. Maurice Norman , Danny Blanchflower , John White and Jimmy Greaves .
1968 Mackay was committed by the coaching duo Brian Clough and Peter Taylor . This trained at this time the English second division Derby County . This transfer found attention in the English feature film The Damned United . In his first season in Derby , he was promoted to the First Division. Dave Mackay was given the honor of being voted FWA Footballer of the Year for the 1968/69 season. In 1971 he moved to Swindon Town in the Football League Second Division for a final season as a player- coach . He then ended his playing career at the age of 37.
Scottish national football team
Dave Mackay was part of the Scottish national team for the 1958 World Cup in Sweden. However, two defeats against France and Paraguay as well as a draw against Yugoslavia already led to the end in the preliminary round. He played a total of 22 international matches for the national team in his home country and scored four goals.
Career as a coach
After his first experience as a player-coach in Swindon , Dave Mackay went to the English second division club Nottingham Forest in the 1972/73 season . Forest was only relegated from the First Division in the 1971/72 season after 15 years of excellence. Mackay replaced his predecessor Matt Gillies in early November 1972 , but missed promotion significantly with the fourteenth place in the table. Almost a year later to the day, he resigned his coaching post at Nottingham Forest to succeed Brian Clough at his former club Derby County . Clough had led Derby to the English championship in 1972 and had come to the semi-finals of the 1972/73 European Cup , but then fell out with the board. In his first season he led his new club to a third place in the table and in the 1974/75 season to the English championship in front of Liverpool . In the 1975/76 European Cup he failed with his team in the second round after a 4-1 home win by a 1: 5 defeat after extra time at the Spanish champions Real Madrid . After a weak start to the 1976/77 season, Mackay was released after three years in Derby.
Towards the end of the current 1976/77 season, he took over the coaching position at the English third division club FC Walsall , but left it again in 1978 after the club missed promotion to the second division. In the following years he coached various clubs in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates before he returned to England in 1987 to coach the third division Doncaster Rovers . After relegation to the fourth division, he moved to Birmingham City in 1989, which had just been relegated to the third division for the first time in the club's history. After a seventh place in the season 1989/90, it was enough in 1990/91 only to table position 12. Due to the clearly missed promotion Mackay was dismissed. Since he did not receive an attractive offer in England due to the lack of success in recent years, he took over the coaching position at the Egyptian club Zamalek SC in 1991 . From 1994 to 1995 he coached the Qatar national team .
In 2002, Dave Mackay was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame .
successes
- European Cup Winner: 1963
- English champion: 1961, 1975
- FA Cup winners: 1961, 1962, 1967
- Scottish Champion: 1958
- Scottish Cup Winner: 1956
Web links
- Career statistics on the London Hearts Supporter Club website; accessed on March 4, 2015
- Dave Mackay: Tribute in pictures to Derby County legend . Mackay's pictures at Derby Telegraph , March 3rd, 2015
- Steve Nicholson: Derby County legend Dave Mackay dies . Derby Telegraph, March 3rd, 2015
- Robin Johnson: Derby's County's Dave Mackay: An extensive interview from the archives with the late legend . Derby Telegraph, March 3, 2015; Interview from 2004
- The history of Dave Mackay . Dave Mackay Club Ties; accessed on March 4, 2015
- Robert Galvin: Dave MacKay . ( Memento of March 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) “Hall of Fame” entry; accessed on March 4, 2015
- Mark McGivern: Football legend Dave Mackay wins legal action over portrayal in movie The Damned United . Daily Record , March 25, 2010
- Derby County Page ( Memento dated May 10, 2007 on the Internet Archive )
- Club Honors . On the Tottenham Hotspur website; accessed on March 4, 2015
- Interview: Dave Mackay, footballer . The Scotsman , October 30, 2009
- Mat Snow: Dave Mackay: One-on-One . Interview on fourfourtwo.com, May 1, 2009
- Dave Mackay of Scotland, Hearts, Tottenham and Derby, dies aged 80 . Obituary in The Guardian , March 2, 2015.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Mackay, Dave |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mackay, David Craig (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | scottish soccer player and coach |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 14, 1934 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Edinburgh |
DATE OF DEATH | March 2, 2015 |
Place of death | Nottingham |