Steve Heighway
| Steve Heighway | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| Surname | Stephen Derek Heighway | |
| birthday | November 25, 1947 | |
| place of birth | Dublin , Ireland | |
| position | Right winger | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1968-1970 | Skelmersdale United | |
| 1970-1981 | Liverpool FC | 329 (50) |
| 1981 | Minnesota kicks | 30 (4) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1970-1981 | Ireland | 34 (0) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Stephen Derek Heighway (born November 25, 1947 in Dublin ) is a former Irish football player .
The winger won more than ten national and seven European cup titles with Liverpool in the 1970s and early 1980s , and he was also a long-time regular on the Irish national team . Heighway was not particularly dangerous on goals (only 76 goals in 475 competitive games for Liverpool and no goal in 34 international matches), but prepared numerous goals from his strike partners.
Heighway's professional football career started late. He was only discovered after successfully completing a degree in economics at the University of Warwick at a game for the lower-class club Skelmersdale United by scouts of Liverpool, who at that time were in a period of upheaval after the successes of the 1960s. Heighway remained until the end of the decade, a regular player of the legendary team of the Reds, with whom he four times the English Championship (1973, 1976, 1977, 1979) and seven other national titles and in 1973 and 1976 the UEFA Cup , in 1977 , 1978 and 1981 the National Champion Cup and the European Supercup in 1977 .
When he was hardly used at Liverpool in the 1979/80 and 1980/81 seasons, he decided at the end of his playing days to move to the North American Soccer League for the Minnesota Kicks for a year before he became a youth coach .
First active in the USA, he was appointed head of the football school of Liverpool FC in 1989, whose U-18 team he was able to lead three times (1996, 2006, 2007) to victory in the FA Youth Cup before he retired in 2007.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Profile on the website lfchistory.net ( visited on May 25, 2008, English ).
- ↑ Profile on the website of Liverpool FC ( visited on May 25, 2008, English ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heighway, Steve |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heighway, Stephen Derek (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 25, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dublin |