Gus MacPherson

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Gus MacPherson
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as coach of FC St. Mirren (2009)
Personnel
Surname Angus Ian MacPherson
birthday October 11, 1968
place of birth Glasgow ,  Scotland
size 180 cm
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
0000-1985 Glasgow Rangers
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1985-1986 Glasgow Rangers 0 0(0)
1986-2001 FC Kilmarnock 354 (15)
1990 →  Exeter City  (loan) 0 0(0)
2001-2003 Dunfermline Athletic 42 0(0)
2003-2004 FC St. Mirren 9 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2003-2010 FC St. Mirren
2011–2012 Queen of the South
2014– FC Queen's Park
1 Only league games are given.

Gus MacPherson (born October 11, 1968 in Glasgow , Scotland ) is a former Scottish football player and current football coach .

Career

As a player

Gus MacPherson began his career in the 1980s in the city of his birth with the Glasgow Rangers . In the 1985/86 season, the then 17-year-old MacPherson moved up to the Rangers' professional squad . There he remained, however, without professional use, so that he left his home club in June 1986 for FC Kilmarnock . For the Killies he played interrupted , except for a brief loan to England to Exeter City in 1990, until 2001 for the club. In his 15 years with the club MacPherson completed a total of 354 league games in which he was able to score 15 goals as a defender. With the club from the East Ayrshire region , he rose at the end of the 1992/93 season from the First to the Premier Division . There were also five victories in the regional Ayrshire Cup in 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996 and 1998. The greatest success should be winning the Scottish FA Cup in 1997 in the final against FC Falkirk . It was the third cup win in the club's history after 1920 and 1929 . In his last season in the jersey of Kilmarnock he reached the league cup final against Celtic Glasgow in 2001 with his team, which was lost 3-0. Gus MacPherson was captain of the team under manager Bobby Williamson . In July 2001 MacPherson moved to Dunfermline Athletic for which he was active for two years. With the Fife Cup in 2003, he celebrated the only title win with the team. From 2003 to 2004 he let his active football career come to an end as a player- coach at FC St. Mirren after the coach there, John Coughlin , was sacked in December 2003. Then MacPherson finished his career as an active player towards the end of the season, and began his coaching career.

As a trainer

At FC St. Mirren , he celebrated promotion to the Scottish Premier League in 2006 . In the same year, MacPherson and his team, which included Kirk Broadfoot , Kevin McGowne , Andy Millen , David van Zanten , Charlie Adam , Simon Lappin , Hugh Murray , Billy Mehmet and John Sutton , won the Challenge Cup in the final against Hamilton Academical . After seven years of coaching in Paisley , he signed a one-year contract with the second division Queen of the South in June 2011 . At the club from Dumfries MacPherson was released early because the club was in acute danger of relegation. New coach Allan Johnston could no longer avoid relegation at the end of the 2011/12 season . In January 2014 MacPherson was presented as the new coach of the Scottish fourth division FC Queen's Park for the sacked Gardner Speirs . MacPherson led the oldest football club from Scotland as runners-up in League Two in the promotion play-offs in which the Spiders were defeated by FC Stenhousemuir on a return leg.

successes

as a player:

with FC Kilmarnock:

with Dunfermline Athletic:

  • Fife Cup (1): 2003

as a trainer:

with FC St. Mirren:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Queen's Park: Gus MacPherson takes over as head coach. BBC Sport, January 22, 2014, accessed July 10, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME MacPherson, Gus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES MacPherson, Angus Ian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow , Scotland