Mark Hughes (soccer player, 1963)
| Mark Hughes | ||
 as coach of Stoke City (2015)
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Leslie Mark Hughes, OBE | |
| birthday | November 1, 1963 | |
| place of birth | Ruabon , Wales | |
| size | 178 cm | |
| position | Storm | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1978-1980 | Manchester United | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1980-1986 | Manchester United | 89 (37) |
| 1986-1988 | FC Barcelona | 28 (4) |
| 1987-1988 | → FC Bayern Munich (loan) | 18 (6) |
| 1988-1995 | Manchester United | 256 (83) |
| 1995-1998 | Chelsea FC | 95 (25) |
| 1998-2000 | Southampton FC | 52 (2) |
| 2000 | Everton FC | 18 (1) |
| 2000-2002 | Blackburn Rovers | 50 (6) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1984-1999 | Wales | 72 (16) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1999-2004 | Wales | |
| 2004-2008 | Blackburn Rovers | |
| 2008-2009 | Manchester City | |
| 2010-2011 | Fulham FC | |
| 2012 | Queens Park Rangers | |
| 2013-2018 | Stoke City | |
| 2018 | Southampton FC | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Leslie Mark Hughes, OBE (born November 1, 1963 in Ruabon near Wrexham ) is a former Welsh football player and current coach . During his active career he was primarily known as a player for Manchester United , although he also briefly worked for FC Barcelona and Bayern Munich and later successfully for FC Chelsea . He won with "United" two English championships ( 1993 , 1994 ), three FA Cup trophies ( 1985 , 1990 , 1994 ), a League Cup edition ( 1992 ) and in 1991 the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup . He played 72 international matches between 1984 and 1999 for the Welsh national team , scoring 16 goals and coaching the selection from 1999 to 2004. He then began to work as a club coach in the Premier League and hired one after the other for the Blackburn Rovers , Manchester City , the Fulham FC , Queens Park Rangers , Stoke City and Southampton FC .
Career as a player
societies
Manchester United, Part 1 (1978-86)
Hughes joined Manchester United in March 1978 as a 14-year-old student. With youth coach Syd Owen , "Sparky", as Hughes was called, found an early sponsor who turned the then midfielder into a goalscorer. In November 1980 he signed his first professional contract with "United". He had to wait a good three years for his first-team debut before coming on for the first time on October 26, 1983 against Port Vale (2-0) in the League Cup . This was followed by another brief appearance against Spartak Trnava (2-0) in the European Cup Winners' Cup , which was followed by the first appearance in the starting line-up on November 30, 1983 against Oxford United (1: 1) - again in the League Cup. He also scored his first competitive goal for Manchester United against Oxford. In the course of the following fourteen weeks he came on only once as a substitute against FC Southampton before he was back in the starting line-up in the difficult away game against FC Barcelona . This game was lost 2-0, but his performance was enough for him to be substituted on in the second leg - the "Game of the Year" for Manchester United - when the deficit was "turned around" with a 3-0 win. could be. In the following years Hughes was an integral part of the team and especially in the 1984/85 season a regular player. He was an important factor in winning the FA Cup in 1985 and a member of the team that defeated Everton 1-0 in the final. In the same year, the PFA players' union voted him the “best young professional” of the past season and the “Team of the Year” ( PFA Team of the Year ). The following season 1985/86 started promisingly and United won thirteen of the first fifteen league games (including the first ten games). Hughes contributed eleven goals before news was announced that he would be joining the Spanish club FC Barcelona at the end of the season. United's battle for the English championship suffered a serious setback. The supporters criticized this decision, Hughes rarely achieved his previous "top form" and in the end Manchester United was "only" fourth .
Barcelona and Bavaria (1986-88)
“Barças” English coach Terry Venables saw in Hughes an ideal strike partner for the very successful Gary Lineker . But in contrast to Lineker, Hughes could never play himself in the foreground in what he himself described as "horrible" season 1986/87 . He scored only four goals in 28 games in the Spanish league and was unpopular with the audience with his style of play, which also included creating space for fellow players with high physical effort. He was then loaned to the top German club FC Bayern Munich in the 1987/88 season. During this season, Hughes played two games in one day on November 11, 1987. First he played for Wales against Czechoslovakia in Prague in a qualifier for the European Championship and was then brought to Germany to play in the replay of the second cup main round against Borussia Mönchengladbach by substituting for Bayern Munich. After he had found his good form again at Bayern , United coach Alex Ferguson piloted the "prodigal son" back to Manchester in July 1988 for 1.5 million pounds.
Manchester United, Part 2 (1988-95)
Ferguson was just entering his second year as coach of Manchester United and although Hughes immediately showed himself to be on target again and was even England's Footballer of the Year in the end, the season was moderate due to some unnecessary point losses (through a draw) and the team only ended up in the lower midfield . Hughes was particularly valued in addition to his scoring qualities to an increasing extent as a "target player" in the attack who could maintain balls hit far forward and distribute them to teammates. In the 1989/90 season the league successes were still a long time coming, but in the final of the FA Cup Hughes forced opponents Crystal Palace with two goals to a replay, which was finally won 1-0 and gave coach Ferguson the first trophy in England. After the five-year ban for English clubs as a result of the Heysel disaster, this also meant qualifying for a European club competition for the first time. In the European Cup Winners' Cup there , Hughes moved the "Red Devils" through to the final, in which he scored both goals to a 2-1 win - piquantly against the ex-club from Barcelona. Previously, he had reached another final in the League Cup , but lost it 0-1 against Sheffield Wednesday . For the second time in 1991 he won the title of “England's Greatest Footballer”. The sporting upward development was also evident in the domestic league at the beginning of the 1990s and Hughes lost only three of the first 38 games with United. In the final spurt of the 1991/92 season , however, ran out of steam and with the no longer so accurate Hughes, the team fell behind Leeds United after three defeats in a row . As a "consolation" served Hughes the League Cup after a 1-0 win against Nottingham Forest .
Despite two defeats at the beginning of the 1992/93 season , Hughes won the club's first English championship with United after a 26-year drought. As a "key" it had emerged that the question of the ideal strike partner for Hughes could finally be answered. In November 1992 the Frenchman Éric Cantona from Leeds United joined the club and Hughes harmonized so well with them that in the end they were ten points behind runner-up Aston Villa . The subsequent season 1993/94 brought United the " double " of the championship and FA Cup, with Hughes his club saved by the late goal to equalize 1-1 against Oldham Athletic from an out in the cup semi-finals and after a win in the replay a goal to 4-0 in the final against Chelsea contributed. A possible “ triple ” had already become impossible after Hughes had lost 3-1 with United in the final of the League Cup Aston Villa (Hughes had cut it to 1-2 in the 82nd minute). Hughes' last year in Manchester had no title. That was because West Ham United could not be defeated on the last league match and the 0-1 defeat in the final of the FA Cup against Everton was also his last appearance for United. For a transfer fee of 1.5 million pounds, he moved in mid-1995 to league rivals Chelsea FC - the club that Hughes had attached to as a child.
Chelsea, Southampton, Everton, Blackburn (1995-2002)
Chelsea was increasingly ambitious at this point and in addition to signing Hughes, Ruud Gullit also joined the "Blues". Hughes had to play against his former club from Manchester several times in the 1995/96 season . He led his new team on an interim basis as captain on the field at Old Trafford in December 1995 and Hughes and his new colleagues were defeated in the semi-finals of the FA Cup . The restart in London was initially bumpy and although he began in the following season 1996/97 at the side of Gianluca Vialli , he should only form an above-average successful storm duo again with the newly signed Gianfranco Zola , one of the best in the Premier League counted. While he was normally in the starting line-up in the league, he came from the bench more often in the FA Cup and was particularly successful in this role as a “fresh striker” against Liverpool , as a 2-0 half-time result in a 4-2 -Victory was turned around. In the final against Middlesbrough FC he was “seeded” again at Zola's side and the 2-0 win brought Chelsea their first major trophy in 26 years. The following year he won with FC Chelsea both the finals at the League Cup as well as the to the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup . In the European Cup winners competition he was not used in the final, but in the previous semi-final against Vicenza Calcio he had the decisive goal after being substituted 20 minutes before the end to make it 3-1 for the final. After three years it was obvious that the time of the mid-thirties in Chelsea was coming to an end, because with players like Tore André Flo , Pierluigi Casiraghi and Brian Laudrup , Chelsea had strengthened themselves prominently in the attacking area.
In July 1998 he was transferred to Southampton FC for £ 650,000. There he got the chance to continue playing top division football regularly. At the "Saints" he acted a bit withdrawn in midfield, which meant that although he had only a relatively low score and due to the additional defensive tasks, he accumulated fourteen yellow cards in the Premier League, but at the same time provided experience in the relegation battle . Hughes was now in the final stages of his playing career and was committed to coach the Welsh national team during his playing career in August 1999 . Despite this double burden, he continued to act in the Southampton midfield at the beginning of the 1999/2000 season and a contract extension was also discussed. Ultimately, he found himself on the bench under the new coach Glenn Hoddle more often and when Everton FC reported an injury-related need for Hughes, he was allowed to move to Liverpool on a free transfer.
As a substitute for Kevin Campbell , he needed four games before he scored his first goal for the "Toffees" against Watford FC and although he no longer had the same scoring qualities as before, his team-friendly game was considered an important factor in the successful end of the 1999 season / 2000. In his first nine appearances in the 2000/01 season, Hughes remained without scoring and in early October 2000 he moved on to the Blackburn Rovers , which were then coached by Graeme Souness .
In Blackburn he played for the first time in his professional career in a second division and with five league goals he contributed to the club's promotion to the Premier League . The forces were often not enough for the entire season, but in his last professional year he won the league cup with the Rovers in February 2002 and played 90 minutes.
National team
Hughes made his senior team debut on May 2, 1984 in Wrexham against the selection of England and also scored his first international goal with the 1-0 winning goal . His last of 72 games, in which he scored 16 goals, he played on June 9, 1999 in Liverpool in the European Championship qualifier , which was lost to Denmark 2-0.
Career as a coach
During his active football career, Hughes took on the head coach role of the Welsh national team in 1999. So far, Wales had been one of the weaker national teams in Europe and within his five-year aegis he turned the team into a serious contender for the 2004 European Championship in Portugal . In the qualifying round , his men defeated Italy 2-1, placed ahead of the favored teams from Serbia, Montenegro and Finland and only lost 1-0 in the first and second leg in the playoffs against Russia's selection . Shortly thereafter, Hughes ended his engagement in Wales in September 2004 to be the club coach at Blackburn Rovers, for which he had played until 2002.
In Blackburn, Hughes not only managed to meet the season's goal of "safe relegation", he also reached an FA Cup semi-finals with Rovers for the first time after qualifying over 40 years. In the following season 2005/06 he made it to the top six teams of the Premier League with Blackburn , beat three of the then “Big Four” with Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea and qualified for the UEFA Cup . In the 2006/07 season Hughes moved with the Rovers a second time to the FA Cup semi-finals and failed there with 1: 2 at Chelsea . For the 2008/09 season Hughes moved to Manchester City as the successor to Sven-Göran Eriksson .
In Manchester he finished the first season in the Premier League in a moderate tenth place, which was joined by a quarter-finals in the UEFA Cup . However, the ambitions in the club, which had come to fresh money through a change of ownership, were greater and so Hughes had to leave the club again in December 2009 - although his team had only suffered two championship defeats in the season by the day of his dismissal. On July 29, 2010, Hughes became the new head coach of Fulham FC . With the Londoners he signed a two-year contract. On June 2, 2011, Fulham FC confirmed on its homepage that Hughes intended to resign as team manager after his contract, which was valid until June 30, 2011, had expired. After talking to Hughes, the club accepted and agreed to the decision.
On January 10, 2012, the Queens Park Rangers announced the engagement of Hughes as coach for the next two and a half years. At the end of the 2011/12 season, he saved the club as seventeenth in the table from relegation. After a bad start to the 2012/13 season with only four points from twelve games, Hughes was dismissed on November 23, 2012 when bottom of the table. With the beginning of the 2013/14 season he started a new job at the first division club Stoke City and followed his predecessor, Tony Pulis , who had coached the club from 2006 to 2013. Hughes led Stoke to ninth place in the final table for three seasons in a row, in the League Cup 2015/16 he failed with his team in the semi-finals after penalties at Liverpool FC . He was sacked at Stoke in early January 2018 after being eliminated from the 2017/18 FA Cup by a 2-1 defeat at fourth division Coventry City . Previously, the team in the league had slipped to a relegation zone with just one win from seven games.
On March 14, 2018, Southampton FC introduced Hughes as interim coach for the rest of the season. After relegation was achieved with Southampton FC, Hughes received a long-term contract as head coach. He signed a three-year contract in May 2018. However, he was replaced by the Austrian Ralph Hasenhüttl in December 2018 .
Title / Awards
- European Cup Winners' Cup (2): 1991 , 1998 (without final appearance)
- UEFA Super Cup (1): 1991
- English champion (2): 1993 , 1994
- English Cup (4): 1985 , 1990 , 1994 , 1997
- English League Cup (3): 1992 , 1998 , 2002
- English Supercup (2): 1993, 1994
- England's Footballer of the Year (2): 1989, 1991 (each player's choice)
- England's Footballer of the Year (1): 1985 (Young Professional)
- English Football Hall of Fame : 2007
- PFA Team of the Year (4): 1985, 1989, 1991, 1992
Web links
- Manchester United player profile
- Coach profile at Stoke City
- Mark Hughes in the soccerbase.com database
- Mark Hughes in the soccerbase.com database
Individual evidence
- ^ "Wales - Record International Players" (RSSSF)
- ↑ a b "Mark HUGHES - Manchester United FC - Biography of his football career at Man Utd." (Sporting Heroes)
- ↑ "Best of the British at Bayern Munich: Mark Hughes" (ESPN)
- ↑ "Mark HUGHES - Chelsea FC - Biography of his football career at Chelsea." (Sporting Heroes)
- ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1998-99 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1998, ISBN 978-1-85291-588-9 , pp. 144 f .
- ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1999-2000 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1999, ISBN 978-1-85291-607-7 , pp. 150 .
- ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 2000-2001 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 2000, ISBN 978-1-85291-626-8 , pp. 160 f .
- ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 2001-2002 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 2001, ISBN 0-946531-34-X , pp. 149 .
- ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2002/2003 . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 2002, ISBN 1-85291-648-6 , pp. 203 .
- ^ Mark Hughes named new manager of Premier League Fulham
- ^ Club Statement ( Memento from September 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Exclusive: Hughes Appointed ( Memento from April 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Queens Park Rangers club website from January 10, 2012
- ↑ qpr.co.uk: MARK HUGHES STATEMENT , November 23, 2012, accessed November 23, 2012
- ↑ Press release on the club's website
- ↑ theguardian.com: Mark Hughes sacked by Stoke City after FA Cup humiliation by Coventry (Jan. 6, 2018)
- ^ Mark Hughes: Southampton appoint former Stoke manager until end of season. In: bbc.com. March 14, 2018, accessed March 20, 2018 .
- ↑ Saints appoint Hasenhüttl. Retrieved May 22, 2019 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Hughes, Mark |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hughes, Leslie Mark (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Welsh football player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 1, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ruabon , Wales |