Lee Carsley

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Lee Carsley
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Lee Carsley (2007)
Personnel
Surname Lee Kevin Carsley
birthday February 28, 1974
place of birth Birmingham ,  England
position midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1992-1999 Derby County 138 0(5)
1999-2000 Blackburn Rovers 47 (11)
2000-2002 Coventry City 47 0(4)
2002-2008 Everton FC 166 (11)
2008-2010 Birmingham City 48 0(2)
2010-2011 Coventry City 25 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1995 Ireland U21 1 0(0)
1997-2008 Ireland 39 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2012 Coventry City (interim)
2013 Coventry City (interim)
2015 Brentford FC (interim)
1 Only league games are given.

Lee Kevin Carsley (born February 28, 1974 in Birmingham ) is a former Irish football player . He was mostly used in defensive midfield and was best known as a player in the Premier League of Derby County and Everton FC . He also completed 39 international matches for the Irish senior team and took part in the 2002 World Cup finals in Japan and South Korea .

Athletic career

Club career

Derby County

The English- born Irishman began his career at Derby County . There he signed the first professional contract in July 1992, but had to wait more than two years for his competitive game. Five days after his debut in the Anglo-Italian Cup against AC Cesena (6-1) on September 6, 1994, he played his first second division game against Swindon Town (1-1). Two more days later Carsley, who could also be used as a midfielder in defense, scored his first goal against Bristol City (2-0). He completed 28 games within a short time and played his way into the circle of the Irish U21 selection before the season ended prematurely for him in late February 1995 after a ligament injury. In the following season 1995/96 Carsley returned, conquered in the following period a regular place and was with his consistently good performance a key factor on the way to winning the second division runner-up , which brought the "Rams" promotion to the Premier League. In the following three years he was at the center of the game of Derby County on a team that established itself with solid midfield positions in the English top flight. Often comparisons were made with the English international David Batty and like him he preferred to control the place in front of his own central defenders. Occasionally he led the "Rams" as a substitute captain and his move in March 1999 to the Blackburn Rovers for just under 3.4 million pounds came as a surprise.

Blackburn & Coventry

The former champions from 1995 had arrived in the lower half of the Premier League table and although Carsley fitted in well in the last eight games, he could no longer prevent relegation to the second division . Blackburn's interim coach Tony Parkes then made Carsley captain and in the 1999/2000 season, this intervened more often in offensive actions. Although he had to pause for a good two and a half months from the end of January 2000 due to a fracture in his foot, he got ten league goals, in which case the promotion to penalty taker up to his missed penalty against Wolverhampton Wanderers was beneficial. Then he fell out of favor with the new head coach Graeme Souness and he subsequently asked for clearance for a club change. Regardless of this, he stayed with the "Rovers" until December 2000, before moving back to Coventry City in the Premier League. Coventry fought for relegation in the 2000/01 season and Carsley served as a replacement for Carlton Palmer in the midfield center and later represented the absent Mustapha Hadji and Paul Williams as team captain . After a certain period of acclimatization, his performances turned out to be satisfactory, but like two years earlier in Blackburn, at the end of the day he was relegated from the Premier League . He made 26 more second division appearances for Coventry before moving to the Premier League again in February 2002 and hired by Everton .

Everton FC

In the remaining games of the 2001/02 season he helped the "Toffees" in the center or on the right side of the midfield to narrow relegation . In the following season 2002/03, in which Everton under coach David Moyes improved significantly to seventh place , Carsley mostly came on the right wing position and scored one goal each to the victories against West Ham United (1-0) and the ex-club from Blackburn (2-1). Due to knee problems Carsley found the new 2003/04 season sluggish, then showed good performances again in the second half of 2003 and scored another goal in a 2-1 win against Leicester City . Probably the most successful year in Carsley's career was the 2004/05 season. He formed a stable midfield with the Dane Thomas Gravesen , who later moved to Real Madrid , which was an important factor on the way to qualifying for the Champions League . He was helped by the fact that he had withdrawn from the Irish national team at this point and was fully focused on club football. A personal highlight was his 1-0 winner against local rivals Liverpool FC . However, an injury from the last game of the season against Bolton Wanderers and another injury in the pre-season phase meant that he was only used from February 2006 in the 2005/06 season and then only played a handful of games. Nevertheless, he extended his contract again for a year and in the subsequent 2006/07 season he was back in the starting line-up in all 38 Premier League games. In addition, he showed himself in form again against Liverpool and was involved in all goals in the 3-0 win - he was "Man of the Match" in March in the 1-0 win against Arsenal . He extended the contract again for a year and in his final year for Everton he was still a regular in a team that finished surprisingly well in fifth place in the final table again in the 2007/08 season .

Birmingham & Coventry

From the beginning of the 2008/09 season Carsley played for Birmingham City . He immediately played an important role for the then second division, serving the team temporarily as captain, was voted the best player by his teammates and was promoted to second in the Premier League. In the second year he was injured in only three top division games, the last of which was against Arsenal in October 2009 (1: 3).

In Jul 2010 he moved again to Coventry City and was appointed team captain by coach Aidy Boothroyd . There he let his active career end by mid-2011 and then joined the club's coaching staff as the person responsible for the U-18 selection.

Irish national team

After Carsley had played once for the U21 team in 1995 , he was Ireland's senior national team from 1997 to 2008 and made 39 appearances. His debut took place on October 11, 1997 against Romania and he played both play-off games to qualify for the 1998 World Cup in France , which were lost to Belgium with a total of 2: 3 goals. In the subsequent qualifying round for the Euro 2000 , which was again unsuccessful, he came regularly to use and denied the first play-off game against Turkey (1: 1) on November 13, 1999. After long breaks and only four appearances in a total of 20 months (including only one competitive game) he was nominated by Ireland's coach Mick McCarthy in 2002 for the World Cup finals in Japan and South Korea . There, however, he came only in the third group game against Saudi Arabia (3-0) to a short appearance by substituting for Mark Kinsella immediately before the end of the game.

In April 2004 Carsley announced his resignation from the Irish national team in order to devote more time to his family and club football at Everton FC. He reversed this decision in September 2005 and after his comeback on October 11, 2006 against the Czech Republic , he was again a constant under Steve Staunton . He played his last international match on February 6, 2008 in a 1-0 draw against Brazil .

Coaching activities

After Andy Thorn was sacked at Coventry City, which had meanwhile been relegated to the third division, Carsley and Thorn's former assistant Richard Shaw took over the interim joint head coach role at the end of August 2012 until Mark Robins was signed in mid-September. He helped the club out again five months later (now under sole control) after Robins had left Coventry again. In July 2013 Carsley hired at Sheffield United and worked there under his ex-Everton teammate David Weir in the coaching staff. This commitment came to an end in October 2013 after Carsley and Weir had both been fired due to a lack of sporting success.

A year later Carsley accepted an offer from Brentford FC in west London to work there as a coach for the "development squad" (for players in the reserve and academy teams). When Brentford was in a crisis situation at the beginning of the 2015/16 season and dismissed his head coach Marinus Dijkhuizen after nine games , Carsley was chosen as his successor. The commitment turned out to be successful and after two opening defeats Carsley led the team to four wins in the following five games, for which he was also named the best coach in the second division in October 2015. After a 1-1 draw against Bolton Wanderers on November 30, 2015, he was finally replaced by "permanent solution" Dean Smith .

Carsley had previously accepted an assistant role for the England U-19 national team in September 2015 and continued working with Boothroyd. In 2016 he expanded his work at the English Football Association on a full-time basis and began looking after all age groups from U-15 to U-21.

Title / Awards

  • England Coach of the Month (1): October 2015 (2nd division)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1995-96 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1995, ISBN 0-09-180854-5 , pp. 42 .
  2. ↑ a b Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1996-97 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1996, ISBN 1-85291-571-4 , pp. 50 .
  3. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1997-98 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1997, ISBN 1-85291-581-1 , pp. 52 .
  4. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1998-99 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1998, ISBN 1-85291-588-9 , pp. 57 .
  5. ↑ a b Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1999-2000 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1999, ISBN 1-85291-607-9 , pp. 57 .
  6. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 2000-2001 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 2000, ISBN 1-85291-626-5 , pp. 62 .
  7. ↑ a b Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 2001-2002 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 2001, ISBN 0-946531-34-X , pp. 57 .
  8. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2002/2003 . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 2002, ISBN 1-85291-648-6 , pp. 78 .
  9. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2003/2004 . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 2003, ISBN 1-85291-651-6 , pp. 82 .
  10. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2004/2005 . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 2004, ISBN 1-85291-660-5 , pp. 75 .
  11. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2005/2006 . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 2005, ISBN 1-85291-662-1 , pp. 75 f .
  12. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2006-07 . Mainstream Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1-84596-111-0 , pp. 74 .
  13. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2007-08 . Mainstream Publishing, 2007, ISBN 978-1-84596-246-3 , pp. 75 f .
  14. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2008-09 . Mainstream Publishing, 2008, ISBN 978-1-84596-324-8 , pp. 85 .
  15. ^ "Lee Carsley set to leave Birmingham City" (BBC Sport)
  16. ^ "Lee Carsley appointed new Coventry City captain" (BBC Sport)
  17. ^ "Coventry City appoint Lee Carsley as Under-18 coach" (BBC Sport)
  18. ^ "Andy Thorn sacked as manager by Coventry City" (BBC Sport)
  19. ^ "Coventry City hire Mark Robins as new manager on three-year deal" (BBC Sport)
  20. ^ "Coventry City: Lee Carsley takes over as caretaker manager" (BBC Sport)
  21. ^ "Lee Carsley leaves Coventry City for Sheffield United" (BBC Sport)
  22. ↑ "Sheffield United: David Weir 'understands' sacking" (BBC Sport)
  23. ^ "Brentford sack Marinus Dijkhuizen and appoint Lee Carsley" (BBC Sport)
  24. ↑ "Bolton Wanderers 1-1 Brentford" (BBC Sport)
  25. ↑ "Ex-Ireland stalwart Carsley takes up coaching role with English FA" (Independent.ie)
  26. ↑ "'In-possession' and 'out-of-possession' coaches: FA breaks bold new ground with Carsley and Cooper" (The Telegraph)
personal data
SURNAME Carsley, Lee
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carsley, Lee Kevin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham , England