John Wark
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | 4th August 1957 | |
| place of birth | Glasgow , Scotland | |
| size | 180 cm | |
| position | midfield player | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1975-1984 | Ipswich Town | 266 (94) |
| 1984-1988 | Liverpool FC | 70 (28) |
| 1988-1990 | Ipswich Town | 89 (23) |
| 1990-1991 | Middlesbrough FC | 32 (2) |
| 1991-1997 | Ipswich Town | 154 (18) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1979-1984 | Scotland | 29 (7) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
John Wark (born August 4, 1957 in Glasgow , Scotland ) is a former Scottish football player . The attacking midfielder was best known as part of a young Ipswich Town team that enjoyed great success from the second half of the 1970s and early 1980s.
Athletic career
Wark first went through the youth department of Ipswich Town and made his debut in the first team in 1975. In 1978, the young team coached by Bobby Robson surprisingly won the FA Cup and beat the favored Arsenal FC 1-0 in the final at Wembley Stadium , with Wark hitting the post twice in the second half of the game. In the following year 1979 he came against Wales for his first international match for the Scottish national team and came in the further course up to 1984 on a total of 29 missions, in which he scored seven goals.
In the English championship, Wark experienced a further boost in performance with Ipswich Town and after a third place in 1980 was able to win the runner-up in each of the two subsequent seasons, with Aston Villa and Liverpool FC being beaten by only four points each had to. In European football Ipswich won the UEFA Cup in 1981 and defeated the Dutch representative AZ 67 Alkmaar in the final with a total of 5: 4 goals. Wark had scored 14 goals in the course of the competition - including one in the final - and was named England's Footballer of the Year by his fellow players at the end of the season . In the same year he also acted in the soccer film "Victory" by John Huston (also known as Flucht oder Sieg in the German version of the title ) and played the Scottish Arthur Hayes .
Wark initially continued to play for Ipswich, although Robson had taken over the post of England national coach in 1982 and the team slowly fell apart in the indirect consequence. In the same year Robson took office, Wark played for Scotland at the World Cup in Spain and scored two goals there. In March 1984 he left Ipswich finally and joined for a fee of 450,000 British pounds to Liverpool on to there Graeme Souness to replace, in the summer of the same year after Italy intended to change.
In Liverpool he fitted in well right away and came in the closing stages of his first season to enough missions to secure the medal for the English championship in the 1983/84 season. Even at his second club, he now appeared as a dangerous attacking midfielder until he broke his leg early in 1986. Although he missed the decisive phase to win the (so far only in the club's history) double from the English championship and FA Cup, he had again earned a championship medal.
After a long recovery period, he briefly fought his way back into the team and was also substituted on at a late point in 1987 in the league cup final defeat against Arsenal. In the following year, coach Kenny Dalglish then transferred him back to Ipswich for £ 100,000. Despite his serious injury, Wark had scored 42 goals in 108 games during his time at Liverpool.
Wark spent two good years for his old club, which was now in the second-rate Second Division . Mainly because of his experience and his stamina was a central pillar of the team, only missed two games in two years and scored another 20 goals. So it was all the more surprising that he moved to second division rivals FC Middlesbrough in 1990 . However, he only stayed there for a year and returned to Ipswich in August 1991.
Until the end of his career in 1997 - shortly before his 40th birthday - Wark stayed with Ipswich Town and played in the newly created Premier League for three years between 1992 and 1995 . In the autumn of his footballing career, he retired to the more defensive position of a central defender and was able to extend his playing career due to the lower endurance stress. With 531 championship games for Ipswich (and 771 professional games in total), he became one of the most respectable personalities in English football. In 2016, Wark was inducted into the Scottish Football Hall of Fame .
successes
Web links
- John Wark in the database of weltfussball.de
- Photo from Wark's active time
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Wark, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | scottish soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Glasgow , Scotland |