John Toshack

John Toshack
Toshack as Macedonian national coach (2011)
Personnel
Surname	John Benjamin Toshack
birthday	March 22, 1949
place of birth	Cardiff ,  Wales
size	185 cm
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1965-1970	Cardiff City	162 (74)
1970-1988	Liverpool FC	246 (96)
1978-1984	Swansea City	63 (25)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1968-1969	Wales (U21)	4 0(0)
1969-1980	Wales	40 (13)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1978-1983	Swansea City
1983-1984	Swansea City
1984-1985	Sporting Lisbon
1985-1989	Real Sociedad
1989-1990	real Madrid
1991-1994	Real Sociedad
1994	Wales
1995-1997	Deportivo La Coruña
1997-1999	Beşiktaş Istanbul
1999	real Madrid
2000-2001	AS Saint-Etienne
2001-2002	Real Sociedad
2002-2003	Catania Calcio
2004	Real Murcia
2004-2010	Wales
2011–2012	Macedonia
2013	FK Xəzər Lənkəran
2014-2016	Wydad Casablanca
2018	Tractor Sazi Tabriz
1 Only league games are given.

John Benjamin Toshack OBE (born March 22, 1949 in Cardiff ) is a former Welsh football player and current coach .

Career as a player

Center forward Toshack started his professional career at the age of 16 with Cardiff City . In 1970 he moved to Liverpool FC . Toshack scored 96 goals for Liverpool. However, his career was often interrupted by injuries, so that he had to end his career in 1978. During this time he won the English championship in 1973, 1976 and 1977, the English Cup in 1974 and the UEFA Cup in 1973 and 1976 . He was then no longer able to celebrate the great successes of the Liverpool team in the European Cup . In the 1977 final against Borussia Mönchengladbach , he was absent due to an injury that ended his career in February 1978. For the Welsh national football team , he scored 13 goals in 40 games.

Career as a coach

1979 Toshack returned to Wales as a coach and led Swansea City from fourth to first division. Between 1984 and 1997, John Toshack was a coach on the Iberian Peninsula , coaching Sporting Lisbon , Real Sociedad San Sebastián , Real Madrid and Deportivo La Coruña . After a two-year engagement in Turkey with Beşiktaş Istanbul , he returned to Spain for Real Madrid. However, the Madrilenians gave him leave of absence in 1999 after almost nine months of work. His work at the French club AS Saint-Étienne was just as brief in 2000 . In 2004 he also coached Real Murcia .

In 1994 he coached the Welsh national team for 41 days. From November 2004 to September 2010 he held this post again. In August 2011, the Macedonian Association appointed him head coach of the national team . After a disagreement between him and the Macedonian Association over Toshack's refusal to move to Macedonia, he resigned from his position as national coach in August 2012.

Quotes

“On Monday I plan to switch ten players for the next game. There are seven or eight players on Tuesday and four players on Thursday. When it gets to Saturday, I'll find out that I'll have to use the same eleven bastards as in the previous week "

During a Real Madrid crisis in 1999: "A pig is more likely to fly over the Bernabeu than I will change!"

When asked how long he was going to coach Real Madrid: "That would also interest me."

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Тошак е новиот селектор на македонската фудбалска репрезентација  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (German: Toshak is the new coach of the Macedonian national soccer team), announcement on the website of the Macedonian soccer association of August 7, 2011 (in Macedonian, accessed on August 8, 2011)  
2. ↑ Liverpool legend John Toshack becomes coach of Macedonia , goal.com from August 8, 2011 (accessed August 9, 2011)
3. ↑ John Toshack leaves role as Macedonia manager , bbc.co.uk, August 13, 2012 (accessed August 13, 2012).

Web links

• John Toshack in the database of transfermarkt.de
• John Toshack in the database of weltfussball.de