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Jock stone
Trainer Jock Stein van Celtic in the Hilton Hotel, inventory number 924-3395.jpg
Jock Stein in Amsterdam (1971)
Personnel
Surname John Stein
birthday October 5, 1922
place of birth Burnbank ,  Scotland
date of death September 10, 1985
Place of death Cardiff ,  Wales
position Middle runner
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1942-1950 Albion Rovers 71 (4)
1950-1951 Llanelli Town
1951-1956 Celtic Glasgow 106 (2)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1960-1964 Dunfermline Athletic
1964-1965 Hibernian Edinburgh
1965-1978 Celtic Glasgow
1965 Scotland
1978 Leeds United
1978-1985 Scotland
1 Only league games are given.

John "Jock" stone CBE (born October 5, 1922 in Burnbank , South Lanarkshire , Scotland , † September 10, 1985 in Cardiff , Wales ) was one of the most renowned coaches in British football history . He is best known for his time as coach at Celtic Glasgow , although he also had great success as coach of the Scottish national team and was involved as a player and as a coach at several other clubs.

Along with Bill Shankly , Sir Matt Busby and Sir Alex Ferguson , Stein is counted among the greatest Scottish coaches and has been voted the best Scottish coach of all time. As a coach, he was six times the Scottish League Cup , ten times the Scottish championship nine times the Scottish Cup and once the European Champion Clubs' Cup win.

Stein as a player

Jock Stein was born in Burnbank, Scotland, in 1922, the only son of George and Jane Stein. In 1937 he left Greenfield School in Hamilton , worked in a carpet factory and in the Lanarkshire coal mines, which he escaped thanks to paid football.

From 1938 on he played in the youth teams of Blantyre Victoria and in 1942 moved to the Albion Rovers in paid football. However, the money was not enough, so that Stein continued to rely on work in the mine on working days. After he was briefly loaned to Dundee United in 1943 , he rose in 1948 with Albion in the first division. For the Rovers, Stein completed a total of 236 games in eight seasons and scored nine goals.

In 1950 Stein moved to Wales to the club Llanelli Town , which was then still playing in the amateur league. For the first time, he was a full professional who could concentrate completely on football. His weekly salary at the time was twelve pounds sterling. However, Stein wanted to return to Scotland soon, where he had left his wife and child and his house was broken into twice in his absence. In December 1951 he moved to Celtic Glasgow for £ 1,200 , where the reserve team coach Jimmy Gribben had spoken out in favor of him. The fans initially thought little of Stein, considered him too old and believed that he sympathized with arch rivals Glasgow Rangers because of his origins . His father and his old environment also separated themselves from him because they believed that Jock Stein had lost his roots through this change.

Due to a series of injuries in the first team, Stein was able to draw attention to himself for the first time and steadily played his way into the regular formation. In 1952, Captain Sean Fallon appointed him his deputy and Stein was to hold this position for the first time at Celtic when Fallon was out with a broken arm shortly afterwards. Even after his return, Stein continued to keep the captain's armband and did not give it up until the end of his playing career.

In 1953, Stein led Celtic as captain to win the Coronation Cup , where the Scots - unexpectedly for many - defeated FC Aberdeen , Glasgow Rangers, Arsenal FC , Manchester United and in the final Hibernian Edinburgh and thus became the unofficially best club in Great Britain . With Stein as captain, Celtic won the national championship for the first time since 1938 and the first double of the Scottish Cup since 1914. Stein used the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland to observe the way some national teams were playing there. On the one hand he recognized the disastrous preparation of the Scots, on the other hand he studied the tactics used by the continental European teams, especially the revolutionary game system of the Hungarians .

On January 29, 1957, at the age of 34, Jock Stein declared his career in active football over. The reasons for this were chronic knee problems. In six seasons, Jock Stein had played 147 times for Celtic and scored two goals.

Success as a player

Coaching career

After the end of his active career, he worked for the Celtic youth teams and led the Celtic reserves to the second win of the XI Cup in 1958, where his team defeated the Glasgow Rangers 8-2 in the final . This was the first success in Stein's coaching career. In 1960 the association offered him to take full responsibility for youth work. Stein turned down the offer and was on March 14, 1960 coach of Dunfermline Athletic .

In the first six weeks of his tenure, he managed to free Dunfermline from the acute danger of relegation. He created a strong team that won the Scottish League Cup in 1961 against Celtic Glasgow, which was defeated 2-0 in the second leg after a draw in the first leg of the final. In 1962, Dunfermline defeated Everton in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and only lost to Valencia after having equalized a deficit of four goals in the meantime.

At the end of the 1960/1961 season, Dunfermline had gained a considerable distance from the relegation places, the season ended in twelfth place in the table. In the next season, things should go up again for Stein: In the end, Dunfermline was fourth in the table, directly behind the traditional club Celtic Glasgow. So within two seasons, Jock Stein had turned a team fighting for relegation into a club in the top tier of the league.

In the season 1962/1963 Dunfermline could not repeat the good results of previous years and was at the end with a clear gap on the top group in eighth place in the table. On April 1, 1964, Stein left Dunfermline and became the new coach of Hibernian Edinburgh . Here, too, he managed to lead his team to their first title within months, in this case the Summer Cup. Dunfermline finished this season in fifth place, Hibernian in tenth.

Steins' companions explained that the young coach had an outstanding understanding of the game for his age and knew how to get the maximum out of his players with limited resources. Stein himself became more and more immersed in the structure of the game, while his team simply went out onto the field and played.

A bust of stone in Glasgow's Celtic Park

But Stein did not last long in Edinburgh. On March 9, 1965, he returned to Celtic Glasgow, where he took over the post of head coach after the Bhoys had remained untitled for the past eight years. Stein was also the first Protestant coach of the "Catholic" association. He brought energy back into the team and just six weeks after taking office, he won the Scottish Cup , where Dunfermline Athletic was beaten 3-2 in the final. Celtic also made it to the final in the league cup , but had to admit defeat to local rivals Glasgow Rangers 2-1. Celtic finished the season in the Scottish Division One in eighth place in the table, Stein's former clubs Dunfermline and Hibernian were in the top group.

In the following season 1965/1966 Celtic was again Scottish champions for the first time since 1954 , the team won two points ahead of the runners-up in the table, the Rangers. This year Celtic also made it to the semi-finals of the European Cup Winners' Cup , but was eliminated there against Liverpool because of the away goals regulation. This season, Celtic won the League Cup after beating Rangers 2-1 in the final, but had to surrender the Scottish FA Cup to the Rangers, who, after a draw in the first game of the final, won the trophy with a 1-0 win in the Secured a repeat game.

The four titles won in 1967 finally made Stein one of the legends of Celtic. The Glaswegians won the league as well as the two Scottish Cups. In addition, the Bhoys were the first British team to ever win the European Cup (→ Successes in Europe ), which not a single Northern European club had won before. Altogether, Stein's eleven lost only two games in the league this season (both against Dundee United ) and scored 111 goals in their 34 league games. With Stevie Chalmers , who scored 21 goals, Celtic also had Scottish League top scorer and goalkeeper Ronnie Simpson Scotland's Player of the Year in their ranks. In the final of the League Cup , Celtic defeated the Rangers 1-0 with a goal from Bobby Lennox . In the Scottish Cup, the final took place in front of more than 127,000 spectators on April 29, 1967 against FC Aberdeen , who were defeated 2-0 thanks to two goals from Willie Wallace .

The 1966/1967 season is still one of the most internationally successful seasons of Scottish football today, and the other clubs also made a name for themselves. The Glasgow Rangers reached the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup , FC Kilmarnock made it to the semi-finals of the trade fair cup and even Dundee United managed to kick the defending champions of the trade fair cup out of the competition for this very debut on the international stage, with FC Barcelona .

For the next seven seasons, Celtic would become Scottish champions year after year. The championship title of the 1969/1970 season was particularly impressive when the Glasgow team won the title with a 12-point lead over the second in the table. It was clear, however, that the team had reached their zenith in 1967. In 1968 Celtic was able to win the league cup in addition to the championship, the following year both Scottish cups went to Celtic Park , in 1970 it was only the league cup again, as Celtic had lost the final of the Scottish FA Cup 3-1 against FC Aberdeen . However, Celtic was able to advance to the final of the European Cup this season , but lost the final against the Dutch from Feyenoord Rotterdam . In 1971 the league cup, which Celtic had won for three years in a row, went to the Rangers, but the Scottish FA Cup was won again by the Stein-Elf, who were able to defend it the following year. 1973 saw the fewest successes: the championship was won by just one point and none of the trophies went to Celtic. The following year Stein was able to win the FA Cup again with his players.

Particularly outstanding are the performances in the Scottish Premier League , where Celtic Glasgow won the championship every year from the 1965/1966 season to the 1972/1973 season. This series of nine championships won shows the dominance of Scottish football by the Bhoys trained by Stein during this period. Such a feat could only be repeated in the 1990s by arch-rivals Glasgow Rangers .

In the 1974/1975 season, the Scottish championship did not go to Celtic for the first time in a long time, who should only end up in third place with eleven points distance to the champions Rangers; the Scottish FA Cup could however be defended. In the following year, the league could not get past the Rangers, who also won both Scottish cups.

Stein was seriously injured in a car accident in July 1975 and almost died, but was able to return to the Celtic coaching bench after a year off. It is said that he has changed since that accident.

In the 1976/77 season, Celtic won the championship and the FA Cup again and made it to the final of the League Cup.

In the late 1970s, Celtic was not as successful as it was in the beginning of the Stein era. He finally left Celtic in August 1978 after being asked to move from the coaching bench to the club's board. In his farewell year, Celtic ended the season in a disappointing fifth place in the table. He was succeeded by Billy McNeill , who had once been the captain of the Lisbon Lions under Stein. Jock Stein moved to England for Leeds United , but stayed there for only 45 days before devoting himself entirely to the Scottish national team .

Success in Europe

Stein's statue in front of the Celtic Park with the European Cup
New statue from 2011

With Celtic, Stein achieved the Scottish triple for the first time in the club's history: Celtic won the championship , the league cup and the cup . He also led Celtic to win the European Cup of National Champions in 1967 , where the Scots won the final against Inter Milan on May 25 in Lisbon despite an early deficit 2-1 and thus became the first British club to win this trophy.

In the eighth minute, Celtic's Jim Craig fouled Inter striker Cappellini. Alessandro Mazzola converted the penalty kick and Inter played the schematic football for which the club had become famous. Celtic fought passionately and was able to equalize after an hour through Tommy Gemmell . With five minutes to go, Chalmers gave Celtic the lead. The 2: 1 remained the end result, Celtic fell into a frenzy of joy.

The fans subsequently created the song cycle about the " Lisbon Lions " and the press also gave Celtics a positive assessment. The Guardian concluded , “There was no single hero. Every man gave everything. ", While Mundo Desportivo from Portugal thought he knew:" It was simply inevitable, sooner or later Inter, which was previously known for the catenaccio and narrow victories, had to be punished for their refusal to play entertaining football . ”Jock Stein himself explained:“ We just did it by playing soccer. Pure, beautiful, imaginative football. ”The modern style of play prescribed by Stein, which was in contrast to the tactics otherwise prevalent in Great Britain, was one of the central pillars for winning the cup. Stein always had an eye on innovative playing styles from abroad, which he knew how to combine skillfully. For example, left-back Tommy Gemmell was supposed to copy Giacinto Facchetti's behavior on the field, while another tactical element was based on an accelerated version of originally Dutch total football .

Celtic had succeeded with Stein for the first time to win all competitions in which they competed. It is also astonishing that Celtic's roster at that time consisted entirely of players from the greater Glasgow area. Only Steaua Bucharest and 1. FC Magdeburg later managed to win an international title with only local players. Bill Shankly later explained in a conversation with Stein: “Jock, you're an immortal now.” (“Jock, now you've become immortal.”)

Scottish national coach

In 1965, Stein was responsible for the national team of Scotland in addition to his coaching position at Celtic. He was replaced in this capacity in March 1966 by John Prentice , who received a full-time contract.

1979 Stein was again coach of the national team. He replaced Ally MacLeod , who had been dismissed after the preliminary round at the 1978 World Cup. Under Stein, Scotland sought to qualify for the Euro 1980 , but could not achieve this goal.

However, the Scottish national team qualified for the 1982 World Cup in Spain after they had prevailed in qualifying against Sweden, Portugal, Israel and Northern Ireland. The Bravehearts failed in this tournament in the preliminary round. After a 5-2 opening win against New Zealand, they lost 4-1 to Brazil, but Scotland spectacularly took the lead thanks to a goal from David Narey . A 2-2 draw against the Soviet Union sealed the elimination due to the worse goal difference.

Scotland did not take part in the Euro 1984 in France either, Stein's eleven only won one game in their qualifying group.

However, qualifying for the 1986 World Cup should be more successful. During the qualification, Stein brought the young Alex Ferguson , who was also the coach of Aberdeen FC , to his side as an assistant coach.

death

Plaque

On September 10, 1985, the Bravehearts needed in their last group game of qualifying for the 1986 World Cup against Wales a point to reach the play-offs . Wales led 1-0, but Scotland were awarded a penalty in the 81st minute of play. Substitute Davie Cooper met and plunged Scotland into a frenzy. In the general excitement, Jock Stein suffered his second heart attack, attempts at resuscitation on the massage bench in the Scottish cabin in the catacombs failed and he died in the stadium.

This case is comparable to the death of Gyula Lóránt , who died after a heart attack during a match between his team PAOK Thessaloniki and Olympiacos .

Success as a trainer

Private life

Jock Stein married Jean Toner McAuly on October 3, 1946 and had two children, daughter Rae and son George. Stein was a member of Union Lodge Dunfermline No. 250 the Grand Lodge of Scotland .

Quotes

  • "Celtic jerseys are not for the second best, they don't shrink so that worse players can wear them." (Original: "Celtic jerseys are not for second best, They don't shrink to fit inferior players")
  • “I don't believe a word Bill tells me about his players. If they had been as good as claimed, they would not only have won the European Cup, but also the Ryder Cup , the Boat Race and the Grand National ! ”Jock Stein on Bill Shankly (Original:“ I don't believe everything Bill tells me about his players. Had they been that good, they'd not only have won the European Cup but the Ryder Cup, the Boat Race and even the Grand National! ")
  • “There is no prouder man on God's earth right now. The win was important, yes, but it's more the way we did it that makes me happy. We did it by playing soccer. Pure, beautiful, imaginative football. There wasn't a single negative thought in our heads. Inter was playing our cards; it's so sad to see such talented players being hampered by a system that restricts their freedom on the pitch. Our followers would never support such a sober demeanor. It is always our goal to win in style. ”Jock Stein on winning the European Cup in 1967 immediately after the final whistle of the final (Original:“ There is not a prouder man on God's Earth than me at this moment. Winning was important , aye, but it was the way that we won that has filled me with satisfaction. We did it by playing football; pure, beautiful, inventive football. There was not a negative thought in our heads. Inter played right into our hands; it's so sad to see such gifted players shackled by a system that restricts their freedom to think and to act. Our fans would never accept that sort of sterile approach. Our objective is always to try to win with style. ")
  • "Without the fans, football is nothing." (Original: "Football is nothing without fans")
  • "Jock, now you have become immortal!" Bill Shankly on Stein's win of the European Cup with Celtic Glasgow in 1967 (Original: "Jock, you are immortal now!")
  • "Neither belief nor nationality counts - it's the man himself." This quote adorns the inside of the collar of the Celtic Glasgow jerseys (Original: "It is not the creed nor the nationality - it's the man himself.")

Web links

Commons : Jock Stein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inter in the exclusive triple club. In: UEFA.com , May 22, 2010 (accessed November 20, 2011).
personal data
SURNAME Stone, jock
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stone, john
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Burnbank
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1985
Place of death Cardiff