Mick McCarthy

Mick McCarthy
McCarthy as coach of the "Wolves" (2011)
Personnel
Surname	Michael Joseph McCarthy
birthday	February 7, 1959
place of birth	Barnsley ,  England
size	188 cm
position	Central defender
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1977-1983	Barnsley FC	272 (7)
1983-1987	Manchester City	140 (2)
1987-1989	Celtic Glasgow	48 (8)
1989-1990	Olympique Lyon	10 (1)
1990-1993	Millwall FC	35 (2)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1984-1992	Ireland	57 (2)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1992-1996	Millwall FC
1996-2002	Ireland
2003-2006	Sunderland FC
2006–2012	Wolverhampton Wanderers
2012-2018	Ipswich Town
2018-2020	Ireland
1 Only league games are given.

Michael Joseph "Mick" McCarthy (born February 7, 1959 in Barnsley ) is an Irish football coach with English roots, who last coached the Irish national team for the second time from November 2018 to April 2020 . In addition to his coaching activity, he has also worked as a TV expert on football television. He was the first Irish footballer to compete in a World Cup finals both as a player and as a coach.

Player career

McCarthy made his debut on August 20, 1977 when playing against Rochdale AFC for the third division club Barnsley . In the 1980/81 season he managed with this team promotion to the Football League Second Division , the second highest division in English football at the time. In 1983 he moved to league rivals Manchester City , where in four years he also made many appearances in the first division. After ten years in English football, McCarthy went to Scotland to join Celtic Glasgow . At Celtic he was able to celebrate his only countable successes as a player. In addition to the Scottish Championship in 1988, the Scottish FA Cup was won in 1988 and 1989. He then moved to France to Olympique Lyon , who had just been promoted to Ligue 1 . There McCarthy could not prevail and was therefore awarded in March 1990 to Millwall FC . Only a few months later he was finally signed. The following two years, however, were marked by injuries, which is why he resigned from the game in 1992 and took over the club's coaching office.

National team

Despite being born in England , Mick McCarthy was eligible to play for the Irish national football team because of his Irish father Charles . On May 23, 1984, he made his debut against Poland . Over time he established himself as a regular player and even became captain of the national team. At the European Football Championship in 1988 he played all three games and at the 1990 World Cup he reached the quarter-finals with Ireland. He played a total of 57 international matches and scored 2 goals.

Coaching career

In 1992 he started as a player-coach at Millwall FC and succeeded Bruce Rioch . Four years later, after Jack Charlton's departure, he was considered a hot coaching candidate for the vacant place on the Irish national team . On February 5, 1996 he was officially introduced as a trainer by the association. After missing qualification for the 1998 World Cup and the 2000 European Championship, he was able to qualify for the 2002 World Cup with the Irish . However, participation was overshadowed by the dispute between McCarthy and the then star player Roy Keane . Keane was sent home after complaining about the team's preparation and equipment. Despite the good performance at the World Cup, Ireland started rather poorly in qualifying for the 2004 European Championship. Under public pressure, McCarthy resigned on November 5, 2002 from his post. Five months later he took over the coaching position at Sunderland , but could no longer prevent relegation from the Premier League and lost all of the remaining nine league games with the Black Cats .

In the 2004/05 season he managed with the team to return to the first division. Once there, however, Sunderland's performance stagnated. Ten games before the end of the season, his team was 16 points behind a non-relegation zone and McCarthy was replaced as coach by Roy Keane of all people. On July 21, 2006, he was hired to succeed Glenn Hoddle at Wolverhampton Wanderers . After two failed attempts, he made it to the Premier League in his third season with the Wolves. With McCarthy as coach, the club established itself in the Premier League in the following years and always managed to stay up. After a series of poor results and slipping to a relegation zone in the 2011/12 Premier League , the Wolverhampton Wanderers parted ways on February 13, 2012 after a 5-1 loss to local rivals West Bromwich Albion from Mick McCarthy.

On November 1, 2012 McCarthy was introduced as the new coach of Ipswich Town , bottom of the Football League Championship . There he had replaced the resigned Paul Jewell . In the 2014/15 season he managed with the club to qualify for the promotion playoffs, but failed there because of the Premier League relegated Norwich City , who thereby achieved immediate promotion . In late March 2018, it was announced that McCarthy would leave the club when his contract expires at the end of the season. Two weeks later, after a 1-0 win against Barnsley FC , McCarthy decided four game days before the end of the season to leave the club with immediate effect.

On November 25, 2018, the Irish Football Association introduced him for the second time as the new coach of the national team. Under him, the team completed the qualification for EM 2020 as third in the group and qualified for the play-offs . After the tournament had been postponed to 2021 due to the global COVID-19 pandemic , global gaming operations had come to a standstill since March 2020 and McCarthy's contract would only have been valid until July 31, 2020, he resigned at the beginning of April 2020 back to his office. He was followed by Stephen Kenny , coach of Ireland's U21s , who should have inherited him on August 1, 2020 anyway.

title

• as a player:
  • Scottish football champion : 1988
  • Scottish Cup Winner : 1988 , 1989

Web links

• Mick McCarthy in the database of transfermarkt.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ McCarthy in Sunderland (www.kicker.de, March 12, 2003)
2. ↑ McCarthy coaches Wolves (www.transfermarkt.de, July 22, 2006)
3. ↑ McCarthy has to go (www.kicker.de, February 13, 2012)
4. ↑ Mick McCarthy: Ipswich Town appoint ex-Wolves boss (BBC Sport)
5. ↑ bbc.com: Mick McCarthy: Ipswich Town manager to leave at end of season (March 29, 2018) , accessed April 11, 2018
6. ↑ bbc.com: Mick McCarthy: Ipswich Town boss announces departure in post-match news conference (April 11, 2018) , accessed April 11, 2018
7. ↑ McCarthy set to sign multi-million Euro deal with FAI , rte.ie, accessed on November 27, 2018 (English)
8. ↑ Republic of Ireland: Stephen Kenny to replace Mick McCarthy as manager , bbc.com, accessed April 5, 2020