Mark Walters (soccer player)
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Mark Everton Walters | |
| birthday | June 2, 1964 | |
| place of birth | Birmingham , England | |
| size | 175 cm | |
| position | attacking midfielder | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1979-1981 | Aston Villa | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1982-1987 | Aston Villa | 181 (32) |
| 1988-1991 | Glasgow Rangers | 106 (32) |
| 1991-1996 | Liverpool FC | 94 (14) |
| 1993-1994 | → Stoke City (loan) | 9 (2) |
| 1994-1995 | → Wolverhampton Wanderers (loan) | 11 (3) |
| 1996 | Southampton FC | 5 (0) |
| 1996-1999 | Swindon Town | 115 (27) |
| 1999-2002 | Bristol Rovers | 82 (13) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1983-1986 | England U-21 | 10 (1) |
| 1991 | England | 1 (0) |
| 1991 | England B | 1 (0) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Mark Everton Walters (born June 2, 1964 in Birmingham ) is a former English football player . He was initially a winger in attacking midfield and was considered one of the most dangerous wingers in England in the 1980s and early 1990s. Towards the end of his career, he was mostly used on the central defensive. Walters made over 600 league appearances for English and Scottish professional clubs between 1982 and 2002, scoring more than 100 goals. In his career he also played in the fourth-rate Football League Two . He also played a final of the European Supercup . Walters also came to one use each for the A and B selection in England .
Club career
Walters joined Aston Villa in 1979 . With the youth of Aston Villa he was able to win the FA Youth Cup in 1980 before he completed his first league match in April 1982 at the age of seventeen against Leeds United . In the summer of 1982 Walters was also used when Villas won the European Supercup. He soon became a regular player and was able to achieve at least ten goals in the league in both the 1984/85 and 1985/86 seasons. After relegation in 1987, he first went to the 2nd English league with Aston Villa, but at the same time looked for a new club.
As part of Graeme Souness ' modernization, Walters joined the Scottish Glasgow Rangers at the turn of the year 1987/88 . According to his own statements, he chose the Scottish club despite some offers from top English clubs, as the Rangers were always represented in European competitions. The English clubs were at that time excluded from the European Cup by UEFA because of the Heysel disaster until the end of the 80s. He was the first colored player there since the age of over 70 and was continually subjected to racist verbal abuse by supporters of other Scottish football clubs, in particular those of Celtic Glasgow and Heart of Midlothian . During his time with the Rangers, he played a key role in winning three consecutive titles from 1989 to 1991.
When Souness returned to Liverpool in 1991 , he took the Walters he valued with him. At Liverpool, however, Walters could never really prevail and was soon ousted from Steve McManaman's regular team . So he also experienced both title wins - both the 1992 FA Cup final and the 1995 League Cup final - during his time with the Reds as a substitute on the bench. At the end of the 1995/96 season, Walters moved to the first division club Southampton on a free transfer , but could not assert himself there either and went to the second division club Swindon Town at the beginning of the new season , where he played quite successfully for three years. The last stop in paid football should be the fourth division Bristol Rovers , for whom he played until 2002.
National team
In his youth, Walters worked for various U-selection teams. For the English men's national team, however, he only came to an A and a B international match in 1991.
After the active time
He has been a soccer teacher at Coventry Preparatory School since 2003 , and he also coaches Aston Villa's U-14s.
successes
Web links
- Mark Walters in the weltfussball.de database
- Mark Walters in the soccerbase.com database
Individual evidence
- ^ Past master Walters plans vintage display. In: The Sunday Times . July 6, 2003.
- ^ Richard Giulianotti, Michael Gerrard: Cruel Britannia? Glasgow Rangers, Scotland and 'Hot' Football Rivalries. In: Fear and Loathing in World Football. Out. Gary Armstrong, Richard Giulianotti, London 2001, ISBN 1-85973-463-4 , pp. 23ff .; P. 30.
- ↑ Caught in Time: Dunfermline Shock Rangers in the Scottish Cup, 1988. In: The Sunday Times . June 19, 2005.
- ↑ Portrait of Walters on the website of Liverpool FC liverpoolfc.tv ( visited April 12, 2008, English ).
- ↑ Walters' profile (English) ( Memento from July 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Walters, Mark |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Walters, Mark Everton (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 2, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Birmingham |