Martin Chivers
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Martin Harcourt Chivers | |
| birthday | April 27, 1945 | |
| place of birth | Southampton , England | |
| position | striker | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1961–1962 | CPC Sports | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1962-1968 | Southampton FC | 175 (96) |
| 1968-1976 | Tottenham Hotspur | 278 (118) |
| 1976-1988 | Servette Geneva | 59 (35) |
| 1978-1979 | Norwich City | 11 (4) |
| 1979-1980 | Brighton & Hove Albion | 5 (1) |
| 1982 | Barnet FC | |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1971-1973 | England | 24 (13) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Martin Harcourt Chivers (born April 27, 1945 in Southampton ) is a former English football player . Between 1971 and 1973 he completed a total of 24 international matches for the English national football team and scored 13 goals.
Athletic career
Chivers began his career after his youth clubs Southampton Schoolboy Football and CPC Sports at the domestic second division club Southampton FC , where he was promoted to the first division in the 1965/66 season and thereby gained the attention of Tottenham Hotspur , which in him a successor to Jimmy Greaves saw. Chivers then moved to White Hart Lane in January 1968 for the then record transfer fee of £ 125,000 .
The center forward scored the first goal in his first game for the Spurs against Sheffield Wednesday . As the season progressed, Chivers established himself in the team and scored a total of ten goals in his 23 appearances. In the following season, Chivers scored a hat-trick in the League Cup against Aston Villa and injured his knee so badly that he was out for almost a full year.
In the 1969/70 season Chivers returned to the team and formed an attacking formation with Alan Gilzean . This also meant that Jimmy Greaves could no longer continue his career in Tottenham and moved to West Ham United . However, his injury was still in the way for Chivers to play in the English national team, so that at that time he was only able to show five appearances in the U23 youth team.
This was followed by a very successful 1970/71 season, when Chivers scored 34 goals in 58 competitive games and scored a hat trick again in both the League Cup against Coventry City and in the Texaco Cup against Dunfermline Athletic . At the end of the season, he won the League Cup after beating Aston Villa and contributed two goals. In the course of these good performances, Chivers was then appointed to the squad of the English national team and played the qualifying game for the European Championship in 1972 against Greece , which England won 3-0 in April 1971 alongside Geoff Hurst . Chivers scored the first goal and scored six times in the next seven games for England. England had to do with Switzerland - coach Louis Maurer and midfield trio Jakob Kuhn , Karl Odermatt and Rolf Blättler -, Greece and Malta in Group 3 qualifying in 1972 . In the six group games, the Tottenham attacking leaders scored five goals for coach Alf Ramsey's team. In the two quarterfinals in April and May 1972 against eventual European champions Germany , he did not score. Chivers was the only English player who played all eight European Championship qualifiers in 1972. Gordon Banks , Martin Peters , Alan Ball , Emlyn Hughes and Bobby Moore made seven appearances .
Chivers continued to increase his goal rate and in the 1971/72 season he scored 44 goals in 64 games. At the end of the season he scored two goals in the first leg of the UEFA Cup final at Wolverhampton Wanderers to win 2-1 and was instrumental in the title win, which Tottenham celebrated after a 1-1 in the second leg. In the following season, Chivers was still in form with 33 goals in 61 encounters and helped Tottenham win the league cup again. In the UEFA Cup, despite eight goals from Chivers in ten games (including five in the first game against Lyn Oslo ), Tottenham were eliminated in the semi-finals against Liverpool . Also in the 1973/74 season Chivers was successful with Tottenham in the UEFA Cup, scoring six goals in ten games. In the final, however, he was defeated by the Dutch club Feyenoord Rotterdam 2-2 and 0-2.
After Gilzean had left the club, Chivers could no longer quite build on the previous performances. When a new coach was installed with Terry Neill and Chivers increasingly struggled with injuries, he moved to Servette Geneva at the end of the 1975/76 season after 174 goals in 367 games for Tottenham in Switzerland . There was awarded as the best foreigner in the Swiss league in the 1977/78 season and returned to England to join Norwich City .
After further stations in Brighton & Hove Albion and Barnet FC , Chivers ended his career as a football player in 1982.
successes
- UEFA Cup winners: 1972
- League Cup Winner: 1971, 1973
literature
- Martin Chivers and Paolo Hewitt: Big Chiv! . Vision Sports, 2009 ISBN 978-1-9053-2674-7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ German Sports Club for Football Statistics (DSFS): 50 Years of the European Football Championship, Volume 1 - 1960 to 1996, Berlin 2008, page 59
Web links
- Profile at Tottenham Hotspur
- Data of the individual seasons
- Martin Chivers in the English national team
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Chivers, Martin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Chivers, Martin Harcourt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 27, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Southampton , UK |