Derek Mountfield

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Derek Mountfield
Personnel
Surname Derek Neal Mountfield
birthday November 2nd, 1962
place of birth Liverpool ,  England
size 185 cm
position Central defender
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1980-1982 Tranmere Rovers 26 0(1)
1982-1988 Everton FC 106 (19)
1988-1991 Aston Villa 90 0(9)
1991-1994 Wolverhampton Wanderers 83 0(4)
1994-1995 Carlisle United 31 0(3)
1995 Northampton Town 4 0(0)
1995-1998 Walsall FC 97 0(2)
1998-1999 Bromsgrove Rovers
1999 Scarborough FC 6 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1984 England U-21 1 0(0)
1984 England B 1 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1999 Scarborough FC
2000-2001 Cork City
1 Only league games are given.

Derek Neal Mountfield (born November 2, 1962 in Liverpool ) is a former English football player . The central defender was part of the then very successful FC Everton in the mid-1980s and won the European Cup Winners' Cup in the 1984/85 season in addition to two English championships ( 1985 , 1987 ) and an FA Cup ( 1984 ) . Later he was still a top performer at Aston Villa and won the runner-up with this club in 1990 .

Athletic career

Via Tranmere to Everton FC (1980–1988)

Born in Liverpool and raised in Wallesey, Mountfield learned to play football with the Prenton Park Rangers . Roy McFarland was one of his early idols and he emulated his style of play, which expressed itself in technical skills and a certain "coolness" in the header game and in duels. And like McFarland, Mountfield began his professional career with Tranmere Rovers . The start in professional football was a bit bumpy at first and only one of his first five league games of the 1980/81 season was not lost - the debut for the young central defender had ended on March 18, 1981 against Peterborough United with a 4-1 defeat. In the following season 1981/82 he came more often to the train and in addition to his 24 missions he succeeded against Hull City (2-1) on October 3, 1981 his first goal in professional business. His talent was ultimately not hidden from ambitious clubs and so, Howard Kendall, the coach of first division club Everton FC, decided in the summer of 1982 to sign Mountfield, who was just 19 years old.

At the "Toffees" Mountfields sporting perspective in the 1982/83 season was initially limited to the reserve team, but when Mark Higgins had to fight injuries, he used the opportunities offered him the following year. Together with Kevin Ratcliffe , he formed an effective defense center and, unlike Ratcliffe, Mountfield was extremely dangerous in the opposing penalty area. In the 47 competitive games he reached the final in the spring of 1984, both in the League Cup , which was lost in a replay against Liverpool , and in the FA Cup , which ended with a 2-0 win against Watford . Five days after winning the Cup, he played some international matches for the English U-21s and won the European Championship with a 2-0 win in the final second leg against Spain .

Mountfield made further significant progress in the 1984/85 season, when he not only won the English championship and the European Cup Winners' Cup with Everton , but also scored 14 competitive goals, which was an extremely good result for a defender. The following years were all the more sobering when Mountfield initially struggled with injuries and finally lost his place to the newly signed Dave Watson in mid-1986 . As a supplementary player, he made 13 appearances in the 1986/87 season, which earned him an official medal after winning another championship title . After nine competitive games in the 1987/88 season and only four appearances in the starting line-up of Everton, he then left the club in June 1988 for Aston Villa , which had just returned from the second division in the elite class.

Aston Villa & Wolverhampton Wanderers (1988-1994)

After struggling with a few injuries in his first year in Birmingham and barely reaching relegation , Mountfield formed a successful three-way defense chain in the 3-5-2 system of coach with Paul McGrath and Kent Nielsen, who were bought in the summer of 1989 Graham Taylor , who led Aston Villa to a runner-up . He qualified with the “Villans” for the UEFA Cup and in the first round he contributed two goals to advance against Baník Ostrava (3-1.2-1), before Inter Milan despite a 2-0 first leg win after a 3-0 defeat last stop in the competition and Mountfields last European opponent was. Like Nielsen, Mountfield found little consideration in the 1991/92 season under the new coach Ron Atkinson and so he left Aston Villa in the direction of the second division Wolverhampton Wanderers .

The "Wolves" first loaned Mountfield in November 1991 and then provided him with a permanent contract in March 1992. By the end of the 1993/94 season he completed 91 competitive games with the new club, where he came in addition to his preferred defensive position in midfield to train. There were no major successes and after steady placements in the second division midfield, he moved more and more back into the second tier from December 1993. In August 1994, he moved to the fourth division for Carlisle United on a free transfer .

Career finale and short coaching trips (1994-2001)

In Carlisle he ensured great stability in the defense with his experience, rose to third division with the new club by winning the fourth division championship and also reached the final of the Football League Trophy , which was lost 1-0 to Birmingham City - he had previously scored an away goal in the semi-final second leg against Rochdale AFC . Injuries then ensured that Mountfield only ran into a league cup game at the beginning of the 1995/96 season and in October 1995 he found a new employer in the fourth division Northampton Town . Just a month and four missions later, he moved on to FC Walsall . Together with Adrian Viveash , who was also newly signed up , he formed the defense center of the "Saddlers" and by the end of the current season he only missed three matches due to minor injuries. Also in his second year in Walsall, Mountfield proved to be a constant on the defensive and the engagement, originally only designed until the summer of 1997, was extended for another season. With a late equalizer to 1-1 against Fulham , his last goal in a professional game, Mountfield "thanked" on August 16, 1997 and although he had lost speed, he stayed in more than half of the games of the team before the new coach Ray Graydon sorted him out in May 1998 .

This was followed by a short excursion into the semi-professional Southern League to the Bromsgrove Rovers , before he was drawn to Scarborough FC in the fourth division shortly after the turn of 1998/99 . There he completed six more league games and after the resignation of Mick Wadsworth briefly helped out as a coach. With the descent as bottom of the table in the Football Conference , Mountfield's stay for the club and his active professional career as a whole ended. A good year later, he was signed by the Irish first division club Cork City , who shortly after the start of the 2000/01 season faced a UEFA Cup match against FC Lausanne-Sport . In addition to the defeat in these qualifying games, Mountfield's first long-term coaching engagement turned out to be turbulent and after the team's performances were not constant, he was dismissed after a 4-0 home defeat against St Patrick's Athletic in January 2001.

literature

  • Rob Bishop / Frank Holt: Aston Villa - The Complete Record . DB Publishing, Derby, 2010, ISBN 978-1-85983-805-1 , pp. 256 .
  • Gilbert Upton / Steve Wilson / Peter Bishop: Tranmere Rovers - The Complete Record . Breedon Books, Derby, 2009, ISBN 978-1-85983-711-5 , pp. 179 .

Title / Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "England - U-21 International Results 1976-1985 - Details" (RSSSF)
  2. ^ "England - International Results B-Team - Details" (RSSSF)
  3. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1995-96 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1995, ISBN 978-0-09-180854-9 , pp. 150 .
  4. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1996-97 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1996, ISBN 978-1-85291-571-1 , pp. 171 .
  5. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1997-98 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1997, ISBN 978-1-85291-581-0 , pp. 192 .
  6. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1998-99 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1998, ISBN 978-1-85291-588-9 , pp. 211 .
  7. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1999-2000 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1999, ISBN 978-1-85291-607-7 , pp. 214 .
personal data
SURNAME Mountfield, Derek
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mountfield, Derek Neal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH November 2nd, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Liverpool