Jimmy Frizzell

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Jimmy Frizzell
Personnel
Surname James Letson Frizzell
birthday February 16, 1937
place of birth Greenock ,  Scotland
date of death 3rd July, 2016
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
0000-1957 Greenock Morton
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1957-1960 Greenock Morton 41 0(4)
1960-1970 Oldham Athletic 317 (56)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1970-1982 Oldham Athletic
1984-1986 Manchester City (assistant coach)
1986-1987 Manchester City
1 Only league games are given.

James Letson "Jimmy" Frizzell (born February 16, 1937 in Greenock , † July 3, 2016 ) was a Scottish football player and coach.

Career and life

Jimmy Frizzell was born as James Frizzell in 1937 in Greenock , Scotland , about 40 kilometers west of Glasgow . He began his career in the city of his birth, in the youth of Greenock Morton . From the 1957/58 season Frizzell played three seasons for the club in the 2nd division in Scotland. At the beginning of his career Frizzell still played as a striker, but was retrained as a defender in the following years. Frizzell played a total of 41 league games at Greenock Morton and scored four goals. In 1960 he moved to Oldham Athletic in England . With Oldham he succeeded on December 26, 1962 with an 11-0 win against Southport FC, the highest victory in the club's history. In the same season he was with the club runner-up in the fourth division behind Brentford FC . In the Latics , Frizzell had 317 league games and 56 goals by the end of his career as a player in 1970. During the 1969/70 season Frizzell was player-coach of the Latics . In 1971 he led the club to promotion to the Third Division. After a midfield position in his first third division season as a coach, a season later another promotion was missed by three points. However, this succeeded in the 1973/74 season . As a result, the club played for the first time after 1953 in the 2nd division in England. At the end of the 1981/82 season he was surprisingly dismissed. In the summer of 1984 he was assistant coach of Manchester City under Billy McNeill . After his release he took over the head coach of the Citizens in October 1986 . The same fate befell him in May 1987 after relegation from the First Division was sealed.

Jimmy Frizzell died on July 3, 2016 at the age of 79.

successes

with Oldham Athletic:

as a player:

as a trainer:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jimmy Frizzell: Former Oldham Athletic and Manchester City manager dies. BBC Sport, July 3, 2016, accessed July 4, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Frizzell, Jimmy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frizzell, James Letson (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Greenock , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH 3rd July, 2016