Graham Alexander
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | October 10, 1971 | |
| place of birth | Coventry , England | |
| size | 180 cm | |
| position | Full-back , midfield | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1988-1991 | Scunthorpe United | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1991-1995 | Scunthorpe United | 159 (18) |
| 1995-1999 | Luton Town | 152 (15) |
| 1999-2007 | Preston North End | 354 (52) |
| 2007-2011 | Burnley FC | 154 (20) |
| 2011–2012 | Preston North End | 18 (2) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 2002-2009 | Scotland | 40 (0) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 2011–2012 | Preston North End (interim) | |
| 2012-2015 | Fleetwood Town | |
| 2016-2018 | Scunthorpe United | |
| 2018– | Salford City | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Graham Alexander (born October 10, 1971 in Coventry ) is a former Scottish football player and current coach . He preferred to play as a full-back, but was also used in defensive midfield. Alexander was also considered an accurate penalty taker.
Player career
society
Graham Alexander learned to play football in the youth of Scunthorpe United as a full-back. In 1991 he signed his first professional contract with the Irons , as the club is called in England, and completed 36 games with Scunthorpe in the Fourth Division in its premiere season . In the following three seasons he established himself as a regular with the Irons and transferred in the summer of 1995 for 100,000 pounds to Luton Town in the Football League First Division , the top English division. He also played almost all of the league games at Luton, but rose in the 1995/96 season with the club in the Second Division. While Alexander only just missed promotion to the First Division in the following season with Luton, he placed with the team in the following two years on a rank in the middle of the table. In March 1999, the full-back signed a deal with Preston North End .
In Preston, Alexander showed his offensive qualities, in the 2002/03 season he scored ten goals in 45 games for North End. He managed with the team for four years in a row to stay in the top English division, but had to accept relegation to the newly founded Football League Championship after the 2003/04 season . Alexander stayed with the club for three more years, in August 2007 he transferred to Burnley FC . He played a rather poor first season at Burnley and finished 13th in the championship with the Clarets. In the 2008/09 season, both Alexander and the Clarets achieved a strong increase in performance. They made it to the semi-finals of the FA Cup and placed fifth in the championship, which entitles them to playoff games for promotion to the Premier League. In these playoff games Reading FC and Sheffield United were defeated and promotion to the Premier League was ensured. Alexander also scored the winning goal for Burnley in the first semi-final game against Reading. With his goal on December 16, 2009 against Arsenal, he became the fifth-oldest goalscorer in Premier League history. In addition, this was his 100th league goal as a professional player.
On April 28, 2012, he played his last competitive game for Preston North End and scored it in stoppage time with a free kick to equalize in the league game against Charlton Athletic.
National team
Graham Alexander made his debut on April 17, 2002 for the Scottish national football team in the match against Nigeria, which was lost 2-1. Since then he has been used regularly for the Scots. Unlike in the club, he is limited to defensive tasks in the national team, which is why he has not scored a goal so far. One of the biggest surprises in recent years came on October 7, 2006, when the French were defeated 1-0 at Glasgow's Hampden Park . Despite this victory, the Scots could not qualify for the 2008 European Football Championship.
Coaching career
During the 2011/12 season, Alexander gained his first experience as head coach after Phil Brown was fired at Preston North End. He held the office on an interim joint basis with David Unsworth and the team lost only one out of five games during this time. In June 2012 he finally took over the management of youth work in the association.
At the beginning of December 2012 he succeeded Micky Mellon at the fourth division club Fleetwood Town . Mellon had previously been sacked after an FA Cup defeat, making way for Alexander's first full-time engagement as head coach of a professional team. He led the team in the 2013/14 season via the play-offs to promotion to Football League One , where they managed to stay in league the following season as tenth in the table. After a poor start to the 2015/16 season , he was released in September 2015.
In March 2016, he took over the coaching position at the third division Scunthorpe United and reached the promotion play-offs with the team in the 2016/17 season as third place, in which they failed at Millwall FC . In the following season, the team was again in the race for promotion places, but Alexander was dismissed in 5th place at the end of March 2018 after no victory in the previous eight games.
For the 2018/19 season, Alexander took over the ambitious fifth division team Salford City , which he led to promotion to the EFL League Two for the first time at the end of the season through a play-off success .
Web links
- Graham Alexander in the soccerbase.com database
- Profile on the Scottish Federation website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alexander eyes iron tie
- ^ Graham Alexander is finally a Claret
- ↑ Alexander The Seventh! ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ English Premier League / All Time / Oldest Goal Scorers ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Vintage Claret sees off Gunners
- ↑ Preston - Charlton 2-2 (BBC Sport)
- ^ Preston and Scotland's Graham Alexander set to retire (BBC Sport)
- ^ "Fleetwood Town appoint Graham Alexander as boss" (BBC Sport)
- ↑ bbc.com: Scunthorpe United: League One play-off hopefuls sack Graham Alexander (March 24, 2018) , accessed March 26, 2018
- ↑ bbc.com: Graham Alexander: Salford City appoint ex-Scunthorpe manager (May 14, 2018) , accessed September 30, 2018
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Alexander, Graham |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | scottish soccer player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 10, 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Coventry , England |