Graham Adams
| Graham Adams | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| Surname | Graham Wallace Adams | |
| birthday | March 1, 1933 | |
| place of birth | Great Torrington , England | |
| position | defender | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| Chippenham Town | ||
| Bath City | ||
| 1957-1959 | Plymouth Argyle | 1 (0) |
| 1959-1961 | Headington / Oxford United | 72 (1) |
| 1972-1973 | Montreal Olympique | 4 (0) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1961–1962 | Wycombe Wanderers (Coach) | |
| Bermuda | ||
| 1971-1972 | South Korea (assistant coach) | |
| 1972-1973 | Montreal Olympique | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Graham Wallace Adams (born March 1, 1933 in Great Torrington ) is a retired English football player and coach.
Career
Adams was active in the amateur area for Chippenham Town and Bath City and played during his military service in selection teams in the Royal Air Force before moving to Plymouth Argyle in the Third Division South in 1957 . For Plymouth, the defender only played a competitive game in a 4-0 win over Coventry City on December 14, 1957 , before he was brought into the Southern League in February 1959 for a transfer of £ 750 from Arthur Turner to Headington United .
With the club, which was renamed Oxford United in 1960, Adams won the 1961 Southern League championship. He had to end his career as a footballer after a broken leg and therefore dissolved his contract with Oxford in September 1961. He then took on the role of coach for the Wycombe Wanderers in the Isthmian League , at that time still a strict amateur club, for a season, however, a committee was responsible for the line-up.
Adams then worked as a coach abroad, including in Mali. As a coach on the Atlantic island of Bermuda, he achieved several successes. With the national team of the island state he finished silver at the football tournament of the Pan American Games in 1967 , in the final the team only lost 4-0 to Mexico after extra time. At the turn of the year 1967/1968 he led the junior national team around Clyde Best , whom he had previously recommended to West Ham United , to victory in an international CONCACAF tournament held in Bermuda .
Adams worked in South Korea from March 1971 to February 1972 . Under head coach Han Hong-ki , Adams was the assistant coach of the South Korean national team when it failed to qualify for the 1972 Summer Olympics . At that time, South Korea did not yet have a nationally organized football scene and Adam and Han also disagreed on the training structure for the national team around Kim Jung-nam , Park Lee-chun and Lee Hoe-taik . Adams also worked as a trainer instructor.
In 1972 and 1973 he was a coach in the North American Soccer League at Montreal Olympique and played four games during this time. In 1972 Graeme Souness belonged to the squad, in both years, however, the play-off entry was missed, at the end of 1973 the team was signed off from the game.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Martin Brodetsky: The Who's Who of Oxford United . The Derby Books Publishing, Derby 2011, ISBN 978-1-85983-990-4 , pp. 12 .
- ↑ wycombewanderers.co.uk: The not-so 'Swinging Sixties' (Feb. 23, 2013)
- ↑ discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk: Mali: visit of Mr Graham Adams (English football coach) and use as coach for Mali
- ↑ ttfootballhistory.com: Little Iceland Enters Final (1 August 1967) , articles of Winnipeg Free Press
- ↑ royalgazette.com: Festive cheer for Thousands When Best's Bermuda reigned supreme (17 December 2013)
- ↑ 한국 축구 의 사활 - 중앙 집권 탈피 에 말썽 의 1 년 임기 마치고 이한 한 아담스 코치. In: Maeil Business Newspaper. February 26, 1972, Retrieved March 4, 2016 .
- ↑ nasljerseys.com: North American Soccer League Players
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Adams, Graham |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Adams, Graham Wallace (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English soccer player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Great Torrington |