Larry Lloyd

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Larry Lloyd
Personnel
Surname Laurence Valentine Lloyd
birthday October 6, 1948
place of birth Bristol ,  England
position Central defender
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1967-1969 Bristol Rovers 43 (1)
1969-1974 Liverpool FC 150 (4)
1974-1976 Coventry City 50 (5)
1976-1981 Nottingham Forest 148 (6)
1981-1983 Wigan Athletic 52 (2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1970-1972 England U 23 8 (1)
1971-1980 England 4 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1981-1983 Wigan Athletic
1983-1984 Notts County
1 Only league games are given.

Laurence Valentine "Larry" Lloyd (born October 6, 1948 in Bristol ) is a former English football player . The defender was initially part of the Liverpool FC team coached by Bill Shankly in the first half of the 1970s , before he also played a central role in the up-and-coming Nottingham Forest team under Brian Clough , where he twice won the European Cup .

Athletic career

Liverpool FC (1969–1974)

Lloyd initially played for the lower class club Bristol Rovers before moving to Liverpool FC in April 1969 for £ 50,000 . With the transfer of the central defender, the local coach Bill Shankly intended to replace the aging team captain Ron Yeats and found a player with a “typically British” character in Lloyd, who is strong in the ball. On September 27, 1969, Lloyd completed his first game at West Bromwich Albion at " The Hawthorns " stadium , which ended in a 2-2 draw. When Shankly started to rebuild his team almost completely, Lloyd was a constant at the side of other young players, on whom the coach of Liverpool FC now built.

Together with team captain Tommy Smith , Lloyd formed the central defense and the new centerpiece in the defense of Liverpool FC and the first interim success was reaching the FA Cup final in 1971 . This was lost to the newly crowned English champions FC Arsenal with 1: 2 after extra time, but the Smith-Lloyd defenders were considered to be the most physically robust defense formation in English football at the time, which also led to Lloyd making his first international appearances for England came. On May 19, 1971, Lloyd made his debut in a game of the British Home Championship against Wales for England's senior team and stood at 0-0 together with his Liverpool team-mates Smith, Chris Lawler and Emlyn Hughes on the field.

On February 26, 1972, Lloyd scored his first goal for the "Reds" in a 3-0 win over Manchester United in Anfield . When he won both the English championship and the UEFA Cup with his club in the 1972/73 season , Lloyd played all 54 games and did not miss a single minute. The season marked the high point of his career at Liverpool and then both injuries and the up-and-coming Phil Thompson ensured that Lloyd lost his regular place and was not there in the FA Cup final victory over Newcastle United .

When Shankly gave up his post in Liverpool at the end of the 1973/74 season, his successor Bob Paisley decided to continue with the still young Thompson, as he and Emlyn Hughes also showed strengths in building up the game and Lloyd, on the other hand, was limited there. Shankly sold Lloyd on August 15, 1974 to the relegation candidate Coventry City and since Coventry was a clearly less ambitious first division club, the transfer was understood as the demotion of Lloyds. Although he was not even 26 years old, he seemed to have left his best football days behind him.

Nottingham Forest (1976-1981)

After two years in the no man's land of the First Division , Lloyd even moved to the second-rate Second Division in October 1976 , after the coach Brian Clough , who was active there, followed a tip from his co- trainer Peter Taylor and the former national player initially on loan and later for the bargain sum of £ 60,000 committed. On October 2, 1976 Lloyd made his debut with the 0-1 defeat at Hull City in Boothferry Park initially unpromising, but at the end of the 1976/77 season, the promotion to the First Division was successful.

After that, both Forest and Lloyd saw a meteoric rise when the newcomer immediately won the English championship and Lloyd provided an effective central defense alongside Kenny Burns . In addition, the club won the league cup in the same year and Lloyd defeated his old club from Liverpool in the final. In the following season, the performance was increased again when at the end of the 1978/79 season the European Cup was won - after a 3-2 final win against FC Southampton Forest also defended the league cup. Another European national championship trophy followed in 1980 as the defending champion. The positive results also had an impact on Lloyd's national team career, which led to another international match. This now fourth game for England - almost eight years after his third international game - ended with a 1: 4 defeat against Wales and Lloyd was not to come back to his home country.

By the end of the 1980/81 season, Lloyd's performance dropped significantly and Clough signed the Norwegian international Jan Einar Aas in March 1981 . In the same month Lloyd Forest left for Wigan Athletic , where he held the post of player- coach.

After the playing career

After two years with Wigan Athletic, Lloyd coached Notts County between July 1983 and August 1984 . Until 2000 he worked in Nottingham for the local radio station "Century 106" and stood out as a sharp critic of his former club. Today he lives in Spain .

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personal data
SURNAME Lloyd, Larry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lloyd, Laurence Valentine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Bristol