Howard Kendall
| Howard Kendall | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| Surname | Howard Kendall | |
| birthday | May 22, 1946 | |
| place of birth | Ryton , England | |
| date of death | 17th October 2015 | |
| Place of death | Southport , England | |
| position | midfield | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1961-1963 | Preston North End | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1963-1967 | Preston North End | 104 (13) |
| 1967-1974 | Everton FC | 229 (21) |
| 1974-1977 | Birmingham City | 115 (16) |
| 1977-1979 | Stoke City | 82 (9) |
| 1979-1981 | Blackburn Rovers | 79 (6) |
| 1981 | Everton FC | 4 (0) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1979-1981 | Blackburn Rovers | |
| 1981-1987 | Everton FC | |
| 1987-1989 | Athletic Bilbao | |
| 1989-1990 | Manchester City | |
| 1990-1993 | Everton FC | |
| 1994 | Skoda Xanthi | |
| 1995 | Notts County | |
| 1995-1997 | Sheffield United | |
| 1997-1998 | Everton FC | |
| 1998-1999 | Ethnikos Piraeus | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Howard Kendall (born May 22, 1946 in Ryton , † October 17, 2015 in Southport ) was an English football player and later coach. He won the English championship in both roles with Everton and in 1985 coached the team that won the European Cup Winners' Cup .
Player career
Kendall joined Preston North End's youth division in 1961 . There he signed his first professional contract in May 1963 and made his debut about a year later in the FA Cup final against West Ham United . His sudden debut, replacing the suspended Ian Davidson on the left half , also meant that he was the youngest player in an FA Cup final in the entire 20th century.
The trained defender moved to Everton in March 1967 for a transfer fee of 80,000 British pounds and formed a famous midfield row there with Alan Ball and Colin Harvey , which was dubbed "Holy Trinity". With the help of this trio, Everton FC won the English championship in the 1969/70 season. For the next three years, Kendall led the team as captain. In his only participation in the European Champions Cup in the 1970/71 season, he advanced to the quarter-finals after beating Borussia Mönchengladbach in the round of the last 16 teams. Kendall had a curious long-range goal against Wolfgang Kleff , who was busy removing toilet rolls thrown on the field, which scored 1: 1 in Mönchengladbach. Since the second leg at Goodison Park also ended 1: 1, the game had to be decided on penalties , in which Kendall converted his penalty and found a lucky winner after Ludwig Müller's miss in Everton. Less fortune followed in the quarter-finals against the eventual finalist Panathinaikos Athens . After a 1-1 draw at home, the "Toffees" were unable to score a goal in the second leg despite a corner ratio of 19-0 and the 0-0 meant the end of the English champions due to the away goals rule .
In February 1974, Kendall was hired by Birmingham City . After another three and a half years he moved to Stoke City , where he held the post of player- coach from February 1978 and was instrumental in the club's first division promotion. Although Kendall was considered one of the best English football players of his time and in 1964 led the English youth team as captain to victory in the "small world cup final", he never made it to the English senior team despite a few games in junior teams .
Coaching career
In June 1979, Kendall moved on to the Blackburn Rovers , also served this club as a player-coach and led the then third division club into the second division Second Division . The direct march through to the top English division in the subsequent 1980/81 season only just failed due to the poorer goal difference .
He returned to Everton in May 1981 and played four more games there before ending his playing career and advancing into the coaching field. The "Toffees" failed to achieve any notable success and in January 1984 it looked as if Kendall could be fired. However, by reaching the league cup final and then even winning the FA Cup against Watford FC , he laid the foundation for an extremely successful era for the club. The 1984/85 season then developed into the most successful season of Everton FC in its recent history. Under coach Kendall, the "Blues" won the English championship with superiority, also reached the FA Cup final once more and won the European Cup Winners' Cup, the only European trophy of Everton FC to date. Two more second places followed in the 1985/86 season . The Toffees had to admit defeat to local rivals Liverpool FC in both the championship and the FA Cup final. In reverse order, Kendall won his second English championship with the Toffees in the 1986/87 season and distanced the "Reds" by nine points. The two Liverpool clubs jointly manifested their supremacy in English football at this time.
Since the English football clubs were denied access to European competitions due to the Heysel disaster , the ambitious Kendall moved to Spain in 1987 to the Basque club Athletic Bilbao . There, however, he could not celebrate any success worth mentioning and finished with the team, which traditionally only consisted of Basque players, in 1988 and 1989 only fourth and seventh place. Nevertheless, he turned down a lucrative offer from Newcastle United during this time before he was fired in November 1989 after a bad start to the season in Bilbao. Instead of Newcastle United, Kendall looked after Manchester City after his return to England for the following month , before returning him to Everton FC for a second term in November 1990. The successful times did not return with the former master coach and disputes with the club management regarding the player transfer policy resulted in Kendall's second farewell in December 1993.
The next coaching station led Kendall to Greece to Skoda Xanthi , where he spent a short and unsuccessful time. In January 1995 he returned to England and looked after the second division Notts County , which was in acute danger of relegation. Under Kendall's leadership, the team's performance stabilized significantly and the club managed to jump out of the relegation zone at the end of March. Once again, however, disagreements with the club's management caused an early end and Kendall was released in April 1995 - the "Magpies" were finally relegated at the end of the season. Again as a "firefighter" he then worked from December 1995 at Sheffield United , saved the club from relegation to the third division and led him in 1997 to the play-off final, in which he was defeated by Crystal Palace .
Kendall joined Everton for a third time in August 1997, but even on his second return, the coaching time ended after only a year and relegation was only barely prevented on the last day of the game. His last station to date was the Greek association Ethnikos Piraeus . It lasted only four months and as the bottom of the table, the club dismissed him in March 1999. According to his own information, Kendall also received offers from English football clubs in the following years, but all of them he rejected. The wish he had expressed himself to take over the Irish national team was denied him.
successes
As a player
- English champion: 1970
As a trainer
Individual evidence
- ↑ Former Everton manager Kendall dies aged 69
- ↑ Legendary Everton FC manager Howard Kendall passes away ( memento of the original from October 17, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Howard Kendall in the Football Hall of Fame ( Memento from May 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- Howard Kendall in the soccerbase.com database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kendall, Howard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English soccer player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ryton |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th October 2015 |
| Place of death | Southport |