Fred Pentland

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Fred Pentland
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Fred Pentland (1909)
Personnel
Surname Frederick Beaconsfield Pentland
birthday July 29, 1883
place of birth Wolverhampton ,  England
date of death March 16, 1962
Place of death Poole ,  England
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1900-1903 Small Heath Alliance
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1903 Blackpool FC 8 0(5)
1903-1906 Blackburn Rovers 51 0(9)
1906-1907 Brentford FC
1907-1908 Queens Park Rangers 37 (14)
1908-1912 Middlesbrough FC 92 (11)
1912 Halifax Town
1913 Stoke City 12 0(6)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1909 England 5 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1920 France (Olympic team)
1920-1921 Racing Santander
1922-1925 Athletic Bilbao
1925-1926 Athletic Madrid
1926-1927 Real Oviedo
1927-1929 Athletic Madrid
1929-1933 Athletic Bilbao
1933-1935 Athletic Madrid
1938-1940 AFC Barrow
1 Only league games are given.

Frederick Beaconsfield Pentland (born July 29, 1883 in Wolverhampton , † March 16, 1962 in Poole ) was an English football player and coach . After his active career, during which he played as a striker for Blackburn Rovers , Queens Park Rangers , Middlesbrough FC and England , he worked as a coach and made a name for himself in Spain with Athletic Bilbao and Athletic Madrid .

Because of his trademark, the bowler hat , he was nicknamed El Bombín while at Athletic Bilbao in Spain . With two championship titles and five cup wins, Pentland is still the most successful coach in the club's history with the Basques. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War , he returned to England and worked there briefly for the AFC Barrow .

Career

As a player

Before Pentland was signed by Blackpool FC , he worked as an assistant to a gunsmith and played for several junior clubs in Birmingham . After only eight games for Blackpool, Pentland then moved to the Blackburn Rovers , where he met Samuel Wolstenholme and played 51 league games in three years. About the FC Brentford in 1907 landed Pentland at the Queens Park Rangers and helped the club in 1908 with 14 goals in 37 games to win the Southern League Football . He then took part in the game for the FA Charity Shield in 1908 against the English champions Manchester United . In the same year he moved to the Football League First Division for Middlesbrough FC , where he played with teammates such as Alf Common and Steve Bloomer . During this time Pentland completed five caps for the English national team alongside Vivian Woodward and won the British Home Championship with them in 1909 . From 1912 Pentland played for Halifax Town and Stoke City , before he had to end his active career in April 1914 due to a knee injury.

As a trainer

Shortly after his career as a football player ended, Pentland went to Berlin in 1914 and was supposed to prepare athletes there for the 1916 Summer Olympics . When the First World War broke out a few months later , he was taken to the Ruhleben internment camp in the Berlin district of Spandau . There he soon organized league and cup games and regularly contributed to articles in the warehouse. However, Pentland was just one of several former professional footballers in the camp. For example, his former teammates Samuel Wolstenholme and Steve Bloomer, but also Fred Spiksley , Edwin Dutton and John Brearley were among the prisoners. Pentland was imprisoned in the camp until the end of the war and then returned to England.

In 1920, Pentland coached the French national team during the Olympic Games . After a walk-through in the round of 16, the French moved into the semi-finals with a 3-1 win over Italy . There, however, the team lost 4-1 to Czechoslovakia.

After the Olympics, Pentland took over the Spanish club Racing Santander in 1920 and, a year later, Athletic Bilbao . There, the English revolutionized the way the Basques played by introducing the short passing game and won the Copa del Rey in 1923 . In 1925, however, he left Bilbao and coached the capital's Athletic Madrid club , which he led to the cup final in 1926 . After a year at the newly founded club Real Oviedo , he returned to Madrid and won the Campeonato Centro with Athletic in 1928 . He also looked after the club during the first edition of the newly introduced Primera División and led Athletic to sixth place in the then ten league. In May 1929 he helped out the Spanish national coach José María Mateos when Spain beat England 4-3 at the Estadio Metropolitano and became the first non-British team to defeat the English. In the same year Pentland again took over Athletic Bilbao and won the double with the club in 1930 and 1931 . In 1932 and 1933 , Bilbao was runner-up and won the Spanish Cup two more times, four times in a row. In 1933 he was signed for the third time by Athletic Madrid, who had been relegated in 1930. He led the second division back to the Primera División. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War , he returned to England.

titles and achievements

As a player:

As a trainer:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ WHO'S WHO IN SPORTS . In: Star Green 'un , May 30, 1914, p. 1.  (link subject to charge)
  2. ↑ FRED PENTLAND HOME. . In: Sheffield Independent , December 3, 1918, p. 6.  (paid link)
  3. ↑ Athletic Bilbao returns to big-time with Manchester United tie (IberoSphere.com), March 7, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Pentland, Fred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pentland, Frederick Beaconsfield (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolverhampton , England
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1962
Place of death Poole , England