Dave Mackay

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Dave Mackay
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Personnel
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 0(5)
1971-1972 Swindon Town 26 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1957-1965 Scotland 22 0(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

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personal data
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