Michael Robinson (soccer player)

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Michael Robinson
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Personnel
Surname Michael John Robinson
birthday July 12, 1958
place of birth Leicester ,  England
date of death April 28, 2020
Place of death Madrid ,  Spain
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1975-1979 Preston North End 48 (15)
1979-1980 Manchester City 30 ( 08)
1980-1983 Brighton & Hove Albion 113 (37)
1983-1984 Liverpool FC 30 ( 06)
1984-1987 Queens Park Rangers 48 ( 06)
1987-1989 CA Osasuna 59 (12)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1980-1986 Ireland 24 ( 04)
1 Only league games are given.

Michael John Robinson (* 12. July 1958 in Leicester ; † 28. April 2020 in Madrid ) was a born in England and formerly the Irish National accrued football players . Between 1979 and 1989 the striker was under contract with the first division clubs Manchester City , Brighton & Hove Albion , Liverpool FC , Queens Park Rangers and in Spain CA Osasuna . He celebrated his greatest success in 1984 in Liverpool by winning the "triple" from the European Cup , English Championship and League Cup . Robinson has lived in Spain since 1987 and after his career as a football player worked there for various media formats related to football and rugby.

Athletic career

Club career

At the age of just 16 years Robinson came in the 1975/76 season for the then third division Preston North End to two first league appearances. Especially after promotion to the Second Division , he made a name for himself in the 1978/79 season, when he contributed 13 goals in 36 games to a surprisingly good seventh place and thus drew the attention of Malcolm Allison , who to this Time coach of the first division club Manchester City was. For a lower class player, the transfer fee of 750,000 pounds was unusually high and so the fans of the "Citizens" expected a lot. The experiment failed after only a year. Eight goals in 30 league games were just as little as a total of seventeenth place in the final table and for only 400,000 pounds Robinson then went to first division promoted Brighton & Hove Albion .

Within the next three years he developed into one of the best strikers in English football with the small south coast club. Although technically at times somewhat limited, Robinson was very dangerous in the 1980/81 season and with 19 league goals he had only one less than the top scorer Peter Withe and Steve Archibald . With that he shot the club almost single-handedly to keep the league and in the following year he scored eleven of the 43 Brighton goals that once again secured his place in the English elite league. The third and final year for the “Möwen” brought both its greatest success to date and a bitter disappointment. On the one hand, he rose with Brighton as bottom of the table in the second division. Regardless of this, the entry into the final of the FA Cup was a great achievement and in this final you had to give up Manchester United only after a replay. His remarkably good performance at 2-2 in the first game earned him great praise, even though the second game ended with a clear 4-0 defeat. In the aftermath, in addition to Manchester United, Newcastle United and Liverpool FC were interested in a commitment and the "Reds" from Liverpool, who had recently won the championship again, were ultimately awarded the contract.

The competition was high-profile with strikers like Kenny Dalglish and Ian Rush and although Robinson did not score in his first nine games, coach Joe Fagan did not lose patience. The knot broke with two goals for the 5-0 win against Odense BK and a hat-trick against West Ham United followed a good two weeks later . Until mid-March 1984 he was a constant in Liverpool FC's attacking game, before gradually losing his place in the team in the decisive phase. In the victorious league cup final against Everton , he was substituted on in the extra time of the first game (0-0) at Wembley Stadium , but was on the bench over the full distance in the new edition on Maine Road (1-0). But the season ended with the greatest sporting success of his career. In the final of the European championship competition , he was substituted on for Dalglish in extra time and thus he was part of the ultimately victorious team - but he was not one of the protagonists of the decisive penalty shoot-out. The second year in Liverpool was disappointing for Robinson and ended prematurely in December 1984 after only seven appearances in the starting eleven. He then moved within the First Division to the Queens Park Rangers in London.

With "QPR", however, he was very reluctant to join the team. Strikers like Gary Bannister and John Byrne mostly had their regular place and so Robinson only got his probation chances from November 1985 through more defensive roles. He played his second league cup final against Oxford United in April 1986 , but lost it 3-0. Previously, he had eliminated his former club from Liverpool from the competition with a 2-2 (first leg: 1-0) in the semi-final second leg. Until shortly after the turn of the year 1986/87 he only got a sporadic turn and as a result he was hired in January 1987 by the Spanish first division club CA Osasuna . Together with his ex-Liverpool team-mate Sammy Lee , who also joined Osasuna six months later, Robinson had a successful sporting period until the end of the 1988/89 season and was part of a surprisingly good one , especially in spring 1988 when he finished fifth in the table Team performance. After retiring at the age of 31, Robinson stayed in Spain, learned to speak the language fluently, and from then on worked for various sports formats in the Spanish media landscape.

Irish national team

Robinson owed his eligibility to play for the Irish national team to his grandparents from Ireland. On October 28, 1980, he made his debut in the Paris Prinzenparkstadion against France . The game in the World Cup qualifiers ended in a 2-0 defeat and in the same competition he scored his first of four international goals against Cyprus (6-0). Although Robinson rarely proved his scoring ability for Ireland, he was usually a fixture in coach Eoin Hand's plans . It was only when Jack Charlton Hands succeeded him in 1986 that his international career came to an end after only two more appearances and at the end of 24 internationals.

Media activities

After the end of his sporting career, Robinson started a media career in Spain. He initially accompanied the public broadcaster RTVE for reporting on the 1990 World Cup in Italy . He later worked as a commentator and presenter for the radio program El Larguero broadcast by Cadena SER and later for the Spanish pay-TV channel Canal + . There he worked for many years between 1991 and 2005 for the football and comedy show El día después . After the program was discontinued, he stayed with the station and began his work as a co-commentator on Sunday live games and as a presenter of the monthly magazine Informe Robinson .

He was also employed as an expert for the Irish broadcaster Setanta Sports and was also president of the Spanish rugby league Superibérica de Rugby . For Canal + he also reported on the Rugby World Cup and the Six Nations tournament . Robinson has also become known to the Spanish public for film dubbing and as an advertising voice.

death

Michael Robinson died on April 28, 2020 at the age of 61 after developing cancer.

Title / Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hugo Cerezo: Muere Michael Robinson, voz inolvidable del fútbol español. In: marca.com . April 28, 2020, accessed April 28, 2020 (Spanish, English).
  2. ↑ Michael Robinson in the database of bdfutbol.com (English)
  3. ^ Irish Footballers that Played for Liverpool - Michael Robinson. In: Soccer-Ireland.com. January 8, 2018, accessed April 29, 2020 .
  4. ^ Informe Robinson. In: canalplus.es. Archived from the original on December 25, 2010 ; accessed on April 29, 2020 (Spanish).
  5. ↑ Dave Fraser: Michael Robinson mourned in Spain as front pages pay touching tribute after death aged 61. In: The Sun . April 29, 2020, accessed April 30, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Robinson, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Robinson, Michael John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Leicester
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 2020
Place of death Madrid