Don Howe

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Don Howe
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Personnel
Surname Donald Howe
birthday October 12, 1935
place of birth Wolverhampton ,  England
date of death 23rd December 2015
Place of death Thurrock ,  England
position Full-back (right)
Juniors
Years station
1950-1952 West Bromwich Albion
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1952-1964 West Bromwich Albion 342 (17)
1964-1966 Arsenal FC 70 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1957-1959 England 23 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1971-1975 West Bromwich Albion
1974-1975 Galatasaray Istanbul
1983-1986 Arsenal FC
1989-1991 Queens Park Rangers
1992 Coventry City (Interim)
1 Only league games are given.

Donald "Don" Howe (born October 12, 1935 in Wolverhampton , † December 23, 2015 in Thurrock ) was an English football player and coach .

Athletic career

Howe spent most of his football career at West Bromwich Albion , which he joined as a youth player in December 1950 and for whom he signed the first professional contract in November 1952. His debut was followed just three years later in 1955. As a right -back , he completed the "Baggies" 379 competitive matches in twelve years and was a regular in the England team . He was active in the 1958 World Cup in Sweden and made a total of 23 appearances for England.

In 1964 Howe was signed by Arsenal FC , whose coach Billy Wright named him team captain. After he broke his leg in a game against Blackpool FC in March 1966 , he was never to come back for Arsenal and ended his career to look after the reserve team under then coach Bertie Mee . After Dave Sexton was fired in 1968, Howe was promoted to senior team coach. Arsenal won the English championship and FA Cup double under assistant coach Howe in 1971 , before moving to his former club West Bromwich Albion in July 1971 to take on his first head coach role.

Howe's tenure at "WBA" was unsuccessful and in 1973 the club was relegated to the Second Division . He subsequently joined Galatasaray Istanbul before joining the Turkish national team and Leeds United in succession. He continued working as a kotrainer when he returned to Arsenal in 1977 to work under then coach Terry Neill . In addition, he became part of the coaching staff of the English national team.

After Neill's resignation in December 1983 Howe was head coach at Arsenal. Despite the successful introduction of new young players such as Tony Adams , David Rocastle and Niall Quinn into the team, Howe was generally unsuccessful, which led to his retirement in March 1986. Previously, rumors had increased about Terry Venables as a possible successor, but this did not come true after the engagement of George Graham .

Howe took on coaching positions in the English B selection, on the staff of the senior team as well as in Saudi Arabia and Bristol City before he was co -coach of Bobby Gould at Wimbledon FC . There he celebrated a great success with the FA Cup final victory over Liverpool FC . Following an engagement with FC Barnet , his last positions were as head coach between 1989 and 1991 with the Queens Park Rangers and 1992 on an interim basis with Coventry City . After a final engagement in the coaching staff of Chelsea Howe moved to the national association of the Football Association and served this as technical director in the field of coach education. During this time, Howe also gathered experience in the broadcast media as he prepares for Channel 4 games of the Italian Serie A commented in the capacity of experts. In the mid-1990s, Howe worked under Terry Venables for the English national team (including the European Championship in 1996 in his own country). He then rejoined Arsenal in 1997 to work again as a youth coach. Howe retired in 2003 as a coach and continued to write occasional sports-related articles on the BBC website thereafter.

literature

  • Matthews, Tony: West Bromwich Albion - The Complete Record . Breedon Books, 2007, ISBN 978-1-85983-565-4 , pp. 118-119, 156 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ England's ex-international Howe dead . Sport1.de , December 23, 2015.

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personal data
SURNAME Howe, Don
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Howe, Donald (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolverhampton
DATE OF DEATH 23rd December 2015
Place of death Thurrock