David O'Leary (soccer player)

David O'Leary
Personnel
Surname	David Anthony O'Leary
birthday	May 2, 1958
place of birth	Stoke Newington , London ,  England
position	Central defender
Juniors
Years	station
1973-1975	Arsenal FC
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1975-1993	Arsenal FC	558 (11)
1993-1995	Leeds United	10 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1976-1993	Ireland	68 0(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1998-2002	Leeds United
2003-2006	Aston Villa
2010-2011	Al-Ahli
1 Only league games are given.

David Anthony O'Leary (born May 2, 1958 in London ) is a former Irish football player and coach .

Life

Born in London to Irish parents, he signed a contract with Arsenal in 1973 . Already at the age of 17 years and three months he made his debut in the Arsenal league team and played 27 games in his first season in 1975/76, from the next season he was a regular player for ten years with an injury break with over 40 competitive appearances a year as a central defender of Arsenal, After a serious injury, he still came to over twenty league appearances every season from 1987 to 1992, even if he had to partially switch to the position of right full-back. Overall, he was the club's record player with 722 appearances for Arsenal, 558 of which he completed in the Football League First Division and, after 1992, in the Premier League . 1989 and 1991 Arsenal were English football champions with O'Leary . In 1979 and 1993 he won the FA Cup and in 1987 and 1993 the League Cup , the 1993 FA Cup final was his last game for Arsenal. In 1993/94 he moved from Arsenal to Leeds United , where he completed another ten first division appearances. He scored 14 goals in the First Division during his career.

In 1976 O'Leary made his debut in the Irish national team , where he initially played with his London club-mates Liam Brady and Frank Stapleton , but the two left Arsenal in the early 1980s. By 1993 O'Leary came to 68 international appearances, with he took a long break in the mid-1980s after falling out with coach Jack Charlton because of a non-nomination . After a long break, O'Leary returned to the Irish squad for the 1990 World Cup . In the round of 16 against Romania, Charlton replaced David O'Leary in extra time, who then converted the final and decisive penalty on penalties and shot Ireland into the quarter-finals. O'Leary scored his only international goal in regular time in a European Championship qualifier against Turkey.

After his playing career, he was employed by Leeds United as a coach from 1998 to 2002 . Since the 2002/03 season he was coach of the English Premier League club Aston Villa . He has not coached since his resignation in July 2006, but writes about football for the Irish Sun. O'Leary currently lives in the small village of Sicklinghall near Harrogate, North Yorkshire.

David O'Leary's brother Pierce O'Leary was a seven-time international for Ireland in 1979 and 1980.

social commitment

O'Leary is an ambassador for Show Racism the Red Card .

literature

• Jack Rollin: Soccer Who's Who. 1996 edition. Guinness Publishing. Enfield 1996 ISBN 0-85112-672-3

Web links

• Gunners Greatest Players on arsenal.com (accessed May 11, 2010)

Individual evidence

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