Don Revie

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Don Revie
Personnel
Surname Donald George Revie
birthday July 10, 1927
place of birth MiddlesbroughEngland
date of death May 26, 1989
Place of death EdinburghScotland
position Half-striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1944-1949 Leicester City 96 (25)
1949-1951 Hull City 76 (12)
1951-1956 Manchester City 162 (37)
1956-1958 Sunderland AFC 64 (15)
1958–1962 Leeds United 76 (11)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1954-1956 England 6 0(4)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1961-1974 Leeds United
1974-1977 England
1977-1980 Ver. Arab. Emirates
1980-1984 al-Nasr
1984-1985 al Ahly Cairo
1 Only league games are given.

Donald "Don" George Revie (born July 10, 1927 in Middlesbrough , England , † May 26, 1989 in Edinburgh , Scotland ) was an English football player and coach . Revie played for Leicester City , Hull City , Sunderland , Manchester City and Leeds United and made a name for himself primarily as a "lagging center forward ". After an extremely successful coaching career at Leeds United between 1961 and 1974 - which went down in club history as the "glory years" - he was in charge of the English national team from 1974 to 1977 .

Player career

Revie signed his first professional contract with Leicester City in 1944. The cumulative transfer fee from his subsequent bills, which took him to Hull City for £ 20,000 in 1949, to Manchester City two years later for £ 25,000, to Sunderland for £ 22,000 in 1956 and lastly to Leeds United in 1958 for £ 22,000, was delivered At that time (1958) it was a record in English football.

For the English national team, he was used in six games. In 1955 he was also named England's Footballer of the Year and only one year later he won the FA Cup with his club, Manchester City . There Revie - after he had previously mostly acted on the half-right side - occupied the then popular position of the center forward, who had retreated into midfield , who developed the scoring chances himself and was mainly perfected by the Hungarian top player Nándor Hidegkuti . Revie's style of play became popular in England as the "Revie Plan".

Coaching career

Statue of Don Revie in front of the stadium on Elland Road in Leeds

Revie took over the role of player-coach in Leeds in March 1961 . He led the club back to the First Division within three years and there in 1965 straight away to the runner-up. He built a team that dominated English football at the beginning of the 1970s and was ennobled for it in 1969, 1970 and 1972 with the title of "England Coach of the Year". In 1970 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE). Overall, Revie led his club to two championships, an FA Cup win and a success in the League Cup . In addition to another success in the Charity Shield , he reached three more times in the final - as well as twice in the semi-finals - of the FA Cup. Great successes were also reaching the finals in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and the semifinals in the European Cup of Champions . In addition to the championship successes himself, he placed with his team in ten other cases among the top four teams, including five runners-up and three third places.

In 1974 he took over the coaching position of the English national team . There he could not confirm his successes from club football, where he could not compensate for the loss of important players - including Colin Bell , Roy McFarland and Gerry Francis . After major disagreements with the FA soccer association , which even resulted in a legal dispute, Revie was responsible for the national soccer team of the United Arab Emirates from 1977 . He gave up this post again in 1980 and then looked after the first division club Al-Nasr in Saudi Arabia . In 1984 Revie went to Egypt to al Ahly Cairo .

In 1987 he announced that he had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis . Just two years later died in Don Revie 61-year in May 1989. He was in the Golders Green Crematorium in London cremated , where his ashes is located.

During his active time, his team was often criticized - above all by Brian Clough - for the strongly physical style of play, although this led to great success. After his death, the predominantly critical perspective changed, and Revie is widely regarded in the professional world as one of the best club coaches in English football history.

In the English press landscape, which is largely based in London and Manchester , he rarely enjoyed recognition, which was paid more to him by the supporters in Leeds and his former players. This is also expressed in the fact that a grandstand at Elland Road Stadium in Leeds was named after him. In 2004 he was also inducted into the English Hall of Fame due to his coaching achievements .

Sporting successes

As a player

  • FA Cup winner: 1956
  • England's Player of the Year: 1955

As a trainer

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