Imre Varadi
| Imre Varadi | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| birthday | July 8, 1959 | |
| place of birth | Paddington , London , England | |
| size | 174 cm | |
| position | striker | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1977-1988 | Letchworth FC | |
| 1978-1979 | Sheffield United | 10 (4) |
| 1979-1981 | Everton FC | 26 (6) |
| 1981-1983 | Newcastle United | 81 (39) |
| 1983-1985 | Sheffield Wednesday | 76 (33) |
| 1985-1986 | West Bromwich Albion | 32 (9) |
| 1986-1988 | Manchester City | 65 (26) |
| 1988-1990 | Sheffield Wednesday | 22 (3) |
| 1990-1993 | Leeds United | 26 (5) |
| 1992 | → Luton Town (loan) | 6 (1) |
| 1993 | → Oxford United (loan) | 5 (0) |
| 1993-1995 | Rotherham United | 67 (25) |
| 1995 | Mansfield Town | 1 (0) |
| 1995 | Boston United | 8 (1) |
| 1995 | Scunthorpe United | 2 (0) |
| 1995-1997 | Matlock Town | |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1995-1997 | Matlock Town (player-coach) | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Imre Varadi (born July 8, 1959 in Paddington , London ) is a former English football player . The son of a Hungarian father and an Italian mother spent his most successful time as a striker at Newcastle United and Sheffield Wednesday and was generally considered a wanderer in English football due to his frequent club changes - he usually spent no more than three years at a club. He was in the squad of Leeds United , which won the English championship in 1992 , but was there too seldom for a championship medal used.
Athletic career
Imre Varadi, who was mostly just called "Ray" by his teammates, first played at lower class FC Letchworth , about 60 kilometers north of his native London, where he was noticed by Sheffield United coach Harry Haslam in the spring of 1978 . In April 1978, the "Blades" took the 18-year-old under contract and he completed ten league games during the 1978/79 season, in which he again scored four goals. Before the end of the season, he moved in March 1979 to the top English division for Everton FC . There, however, the hoped-for leap in development did not materialize and by the end of the 1980/81 season he played just 26 league games. One of his rare highlights was the winning goal in January 1981 in the FA Cup duel against local rivals Liverpool FC . At the end of August 1981, he was finally drawn one league lower to Newcastle United .
In the north-east of England Varadi made his sporting breakthrough and in the course of the following two years he proved to be a reliable goalscorer. He surpassed the 18 league goals during the 1981/82 season the following year with 21 championship goals. The longed-for promotion was denied to the "Magpies" with 5th place in the 1982/83 season, whereupon Varadi returned to Sheffield in the summer of 1983 for 150,000 pounds - now to United's rivals Sheffield Wednesday . The sales decision was very controversial among the supporters of Newcastle United, especially since Varadi had to leave the club against his will in a way.
Varadi had little difficulty getting used to the second division rivals. He scored 17 league goals in the 1983/84 season, making him the club's most accurate shooter and contributing not insignificantly to winning the runner-up and promotion to the First Division . In the team of coach Howard Wilkinson , the fast-paced Varadi was also in the following season 1984/85 with a total of 21 competitive game hits. It was all the more disappointing for the club and fans that the "Player of the Year" refused a contract extension in the summer of 1985 and instead went to first division competitor West Bromwich Albion - the transfer fee of 285,000 pounds had to be determined by an arbitration tribunal.
With the decision to move, Varadi did not conjure up his luck, because not only did he go through a relegation with the "Baggies" in the 1985/86 season as a knocked-down bottom of the table , but also had a similar experience at his next stop in Manchester City from October 1986 when he left the first division again after the 1986/87 season . Varadi remained loyal to the "Citizens" in the following year in the second division, before Howard Wilkinson in late September 1988 steered him back to Sheffield Wednesday for a second time in the top English division.
But even returning to a tried and tested place of work did not have the desired effect. Wilkinson left the club within a few weeks and Varadi's relationship with successor Peter Eustace was very cold - when Varadi even asked for a transfer clearance, Eustace temporarily suspended him. Eustace's successor Ron Atkinson also brought little relaxation in the personnel Varadi and when he waited ten months for an assignment, he again followed the call of Howard Wilkinson in early February 1990, who had meanwhile taken over as coach at the second division Leeds United . The simultaneous injuries of Bobby Davison and Carl Shutt were decisive for the decision ; in addition, Varadi found familiar faces from the time at Sheffield Wednesday in the form of Lee Chapman , Mel Sterland , Shutt, Glynn Snodin and John Pearson . Most of his stakes were limited to the reserve team and after promotion to the first division his contribution to winning the English championship in 1992 with only three inserts was marginal. He also spent the decisive phase from March 1992 as a loan player at Luton Town , where he was relegated one more time from the first division. In January 1993 another short engagement followed on loan at the second division Oxford United , before he joined the third division Rotherham United in March 1993 free of charge .
In Rotherham Varadi found back to old accuracy and led the club's internal scorer list in the 1993/94 season. But he did not succeed in the following year to confirm these performances and after he was pushed more and more into the substitute role by Bobby Davison, he moved to Mansfield Town in the fourth division in August 1995 . There he played only one game, however, and after just 21 days he joined the semi-professional club Boston United in September as a player and cotrainer for Mel Sterland. But even there it did not last long, because on September 29, 1995 he returned to professional football at Scunthorpe United . Within a month he played there again two games as a substitute before he put an end to the "interplay" and became the player-coach of Matlock Town in the Northern Premier League . There he rose in the 1995/96 season from the top division. Further stations were later the FC Guisley , Denaby United and Stalybridge Celtic , when he was usually Mel Sterland's assistant. In addition to his coaching activities, Varadi acquired a FIFA license as a player agent.
literature
- Brodie, John & Dickinson, Jason: Sheffield Wednesday - The Complete Record . DB Publishing, 2011, ISBN 978-1-85983-973-7 , pp. 225-226 .
Web links
- Profile at Sheffield United
- Imre Varadi in the soccerbase.com database
- Statistical data from the Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Database
- Profile at ozwhitelufc.net.au
Individual evidence
- ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1995-1996 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1995, ISBN 978-0-09-180854-9 , pp. 218 .
- ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1996-1997 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1996, ISBN 978-1-85291-571-1 , pp. 248 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Varadi, Imre |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Varadi, Ray |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paddington , London , England |