David Nish

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David Nish
Personnel
Surname David John Nish
birthday September 26, 1947
place of birth Burton-upon-Trent ,  England
size 1.78 m
position Center-back , left-back
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1966-1972 Leicester City 228 (25)
1972-1979 Derby County 188 (10)
1979 Tulsa roughnecks 28 0(6)
1980-1981 Seattle Sounders 57 0(4)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1973-1974 England 5 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

David John Nish (born September 26, 1947 in Burton-upon-Trent ) is a retired English football player . His greatest successes as a player were winning the English championship in 1975 with Derby County and moving into the final of the FA Cup 1968/69 with Leicester City . Between 1973 and 1974 he played five games for the English national team .

Player career

Leicester City

David Nish made his debut on December 3, 1966 at the age of eighteen for Leicester City in the Football League First Division 1966/67 and scored his first goal directly in the game against Stoke City . By the end of the season, the young defender played another seventeen league games. After an eighth place in his first season, the performance of the club deteriorated and led to a thirteenth place in 1967/68 in the 1968/69 season to relegation to the second-rate Second Division. The team around Peter Shilton , Allan Clarke and the 21-year-old team captain David Nish was more successful in the FA Cup 1968/69 when Leicester reached the final of the prestigious competition . However, City lost the final game after a goal by Neil Young with 0-1 against Manchester City . By winning the second division championship in the 1970/71 season before Sheffield United managed to return to the first division in the second year . David Nish secured himself with his team in the following year relegation before he moved to Derby County in August 1972 .

Derby County

Derby was able to secure the first league title in the club's history in the Football League First Division in 1971/72 and signed the 24-year-old defender as reigning English champion for the British record transfer fee of £ 225,000. The team of the coaching duo Brian Clough and Peter Taylor could not repeat this success with 7th place in the 1972/73 season, but the team around Ron Webster , Archie Gemmill , Alan Hinton , Roy McFarland and David Nish made it into the semi-finals of the European Cup National champion 1972/73 . After u. a. In the second round Benfica Lisbon could be defeated, the Italian champions Juventus Turin waited in the semi-finals . After a 1: 3 defeat in Turin, Derby was eliminated from the competition after a 0: 0 at home and thus missed the final against Ajax Amsterdam .

At the beginning of the 1973/74 season , the board separated from coach Brian Clough under turbulent circumstances and hired the former player Dave Mackay as his successor. Mackay reached a third place with County 1974 and led the team in the Football League First Division 1974/75 to the second championship in the club's history. David Nish scored two goals in thirty-eight league games and played his part in the title ahead of Liverpool . The second start in the 1975/76 European Cup ended in the second round. Derby failed after two legendary games 4: 1 and 1: 5 after extra time against Spanish champions Real Madrid . The performance in the league deteriorated significantly after a fourth place in 1975/76 in the two following years. David Nish was also only used on a reduced basis from the 1976/77 season due to injuries and moved to Tulsa Roughnecks in the North American Soccer League in 1979 .

In December 2009, David Nish was elected to Derby County's All Star Team.

English national team

Between 1973 and 1974 Nish played five international matches for the English national team. He made his debut on May 12, 1973 in a 2-1 win over Northern Ireland, when he was set up by coach Alf Ramsey as a left-back. His fifth and last international match he played a year later on May 18, 1974 against Scotland.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FA Cup Final 1969 ( Memento from April 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (FA Cup Finals)
  2. ↑ Derby County - Juventus Turin (europeancuphistory)
  3. ↑ Derby County - Real Madrid (europeancuphistory)
  4. ↑ David Nish in NASL (nasljerseys)
  5. ↑ Derby County All Star Team ( Memento from May 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (dcfc.co.uk)
  6. ↑ Games for England (englandstats)
personal data
SURNAME Nish, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nish, David John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Welsh football player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Burton-upon-Trent , England