Ian Ross (soccer player, 1947)

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Ian Ross
Personnel
birthday January 26, 1947
place of birth Glasgow ,  Scotland
date of death February 9, 2019
Place of death Wigan ,  England
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
1963-1965 Liverpool FC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1965-1972 Liverpool FC 48 (2)
1972-1976 Aston Villa 175 (3)
1976 →  Notts County  (loan) 4 (1)
1976 →  Northampton Town  (loan) 2 (0)
1976-1979 Peterborough United 112 (1)
1977 →  Santa Barbara Condors  (loan)
1979-1982 Wolverhampton Wanderers 0 (0)
1982-1983 Hereford United 15 (0)
1984 Valur Reykjavík
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1982 Wolverhampton Wanderers (interim)
1985-1987 Valur Reykjavík
1987-1991 KR Reykjavík
1992-1993 Huddersfield Town
1993-1994 Keflavík ÍF
1996 Berwick Rangers
1 Only league games are given.

Ian Ross (born January 26, 1947 in Glasgow , † February 9, 2019 in Wigan ) was a Scottish football player and coach . He was versatile in midfield and defense and after his early years at Liverpool FC he was a regular and captain of Aston Villa between 1972 and 1976 . During his later coaching career, he worked in Iceland for a long time from the mid-1980s.

Athletic career

Career as a soccer player

Ross was discovered as a talented youth footballer in his native Glasgow. He was drawn to Liverpool FC early on in England, where he signed his first professional contract in August 1965. As is usual with many talents, he was only reluctantly used in the first team. He made his debut on January 14, 1967 in a first division duel against Sheffield Wednesday (1-0) by substitution and then had to wait until March 16, 1968 for his starting finals against Burnley FC (3-2). Only five more competitive games followed in the outgoing 1967/68 season and four more games the following year.

Ross first drew attention to himself on December 6, 1969. He was considered to be versatile, but in his role as the man hit by Alan Ball - a 1966 world champion - in the derby against Everton FC , he was considered the key to the 3 : 0 success. Everton were leaders at the time and later became English champions and Ross had only started twice before. Equipped with good form, he played in the next four games in midfield and scored his first goal on Boxing Day 1969 against Burnley FC . After a surprising cup defeat against the second division club Watford FC , he lost his place in the team again before he went as a left-back in the 1970/71 season. However, he soon had to give up this place to Roy Evans , who in turn was inherited by Alec Lindsay . His appearance in the quarter-final second leg of the trade fair cup in March 1971 against FC Bayern Munich brought him great recognition . Liverpool won the first game 3-0 and in Munich he guarded Franz Beckenbauer so effectively that he was henceforth the "Emperor's shadow". In the 1-1 draw that enabled the "Reds" to advance, Ross also scored a goal. In his last season 1971/72 for Liverpool Ross completed 31 competitive games, 21 of them in the English premier league, mostly in midfield or in defense as a substitute for players like Larry Lloyd , Tommy Smith , Alec Lindsay or Brian Hall . Before the end of the season, he moved in February 1972 for a transfer fee of 60,000 pounds to the then third division Aston Villa .

In the remaining games, Ross led his new club back to the second division. In the following four years he remained a regular at the "Villans" and mostly acted alongside Chris Nicholl in the middle of the defense. He celebrated his greatest successes in 1975 with promotion to the top English league and winning the league cup , where he led his team as captain in the 1-0 final win against Norwich City . After a successful first division season 1975/76 and relegation, Ross finally fell victim to a rebuilding in the team. After loan positions at Notts County and Northampton Town , he then joined the third division Peterborough United in December 1976 . In a good two and a half years he accumulated 112 league games and said goodbye at the end of the 1978/79 season with relegation to the fourth division .

Activities as a trainer

In Peterborough, Ross worked in the coaching staff and when he hired first division Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1979 , he was primarily scheduled as an assistant to John Barnwell , who had been his former coach in Peterborough. He remained eligible to play with the "Wolves", but did not appear in any game for the first team. After Barnwell's release in January 1982, he held five interim games, all of which were lost, the chief role. In a similar role as assistant and standby player, he was then active for Hereford United , where he came back to 15 league games.

In 1984 he moved to Iceland. As coach of Valur Reykjavík , Ross won the Icelandic championship in 1985 and 1987 . This was followed by an engagement from September 1987 to February 1991 at KR Reykjavík before he returned to England. At Huddersfield Town he worked first as an assistant to Eoin Hand and then between March 1992 and July 1993 as chief executive. In November 1993 he took over again in Iceland as coach of Keflavík ÍF , but resigned there in July 1994 again from his post. The last coaching station in Scotland was the Berwick Rangers in 1996 . Ross ran two restaurants in his later life and died shortly after his 72nd birthday in February 2019.

Title / Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ian ROSS - Liverpool FC - Biography of England career (Sporting Heroes)
  2. ↑ Players - Ian Ross (LFCHistory.net)
  3. ↑ Roscoe - A Favorite Among Legends Stellar Line-Up And A Distinctive Mersey Bea (Wolves Heroes)
  4. ↑ Ian Ross (Berwick Rangers)
personal data
SURNAME Ross, Ian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 2019
Place of death Wigan