Mike Marsh (soccer player)

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Mike Marsh
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Personnel
Surname Michael Andrew Marsh
birthday July 21, 1969
place of birth Liverpool ,  England
size 173 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
Kirkby Town
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1987-1993 Liverpool FC 69 0(2)
1993-1994 West Ham United 49 0(1)
1994-1995 Coventry City 15 0(2)
1995 Galatasaray Istanbul 3 0(0)
1995-1998 Southend United 84 (11)
1998 Southport FC 1 0(0)
1998-1999 AFC Barrow
1999-2000 Kidderminster Harriers 24 0(4)
2000-2001 Southend United 35 0(7)
2001-2002 Boston United 7 0(1)
2002-2003 Accrington Stanley
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2003 Burscough FC
2008 Northwich Victoria (interim)
2008 Bradford Park Avenue (interim)
1 Only league games are given.

Michael Andrew "Mike" Marsh (born July 21, 1969 in Liverpool ) is a former English football player . Mostly in the right or central midfield and if necessary also helping out in the full-back position, he was active at the beginning of his professional career at Liverpool , where he was denied a permanent breakthrough, although he was briefly in the 1991/92 season due to numerous injuries in the squad Was a regular player and was on the bench in the 1992 FA Cup victory in the final. From the mid-1990s he slowly disappeared more and more into the lowlands of English football, but played there in the semi-professional area until 2003.

Athletic career

Marsh was playing for his hometown club Kirkby Town in the North West Counties League when he was discovered by Liverpool FC reserve coach Phil Thompson . This recommended his "boss" Kenny Dalglish the commitment of the talented midfielder and so Marsh came to the "Reds" at the end of the 1986/87 season. On March 1, 1989 he made his debut in the 2-0 win against Charlton Athletic as a substitute for Jan Mølby in the First Division . His missions remained mainly limited to the reserve team in the following two seasons and his contribution to winning the championship in 1990 was marginal with two league appearances. It was not until the 1991/92 season under the new coach Graeme Souness that he was more frequently represented in the regular formation, although this was also due to major injury problems in the club. His first goal came on November 6, 1991 during a memorable UEFA Cup match against AJ Auxerre , in which he equalized the 2-0 first leg deficit and laid the foundation for a 3-0 win. In the 2-0 final win against AFC Sunderland in the FA Cup , he was only a substitute, but received an official winner's medal. Mostly in the position of right back as a substitute for Rob Jones Marsh came in the following season 1992/93 to 28 league appearances and was 22 times in the starting line-up. However, he waited in vain for his sporting breakthrough and so Souness let him move to West Ham United together with David Burrows in exchange for Julian Dicks in September 1993 . Overall, Marsh had earned the reputation of a "training world champion" in Liverpool, but he was rarely able to prove his technical skills in competitive games.

For the first division competitor West Ham Marsh occupy the midfield center for Martin Allen and of the 35 remaining league games of the 1993/94 season he only missed two. Although he initially remained a constant with the "Hammers" at the beginning of the following season 1994/95, Marsh's career developed turbulent from then on. After numerous speculations about a change, he signed the first division competitor and relegation candidate Coventry City at the end of 1994 . There coach Ron Atkinson initially even let him play on the offensive and at the end of February 1995 he scored two goals in two home wins in a row against ex-club West Ham United and Leicester City . At the end of the 1994/95 season, however, he then lost his permanent place in the team. After a brief interlude at Galatasaray Istanbul under Graeme Souness for the new 1995/96 season, which came to an end in early September 1995 and only three league appearances, he moved for a transfer fee of 500,000 pounds - exactly the amount that the Turkish club had previously paid to Coventry had transferred - to the second division club Southend United .

Marsh was an immediate asset to the “Blues” and his good teamwork with Paul Byrne was particularly striking. He also catapulted himself into the hearts of Southend United supporters with his long-range winner on April 20, 1996 against Ipswich Town at the last second. He remained a top performer in the team in the 1996/97 season and repeated his yield of five league goals from the previous year. His absence between November 1996 and January 1997 as a result of knee surgery made the club difficult. It was precisely during this time that Southend United lost decisive ground and had to move into the third division at the end of the season. That the knee problems were of a lasting nature quickly became apparent in the following season 1997/98 and in October 1997 Marsh resigned as an active professional player and in the context of a sports disability. His club then rose directly from bottom of the table even in the fourth division.

Marsh then continued to pursue football in the semi-professional field and stayed away from the Football League for insurance reasons in relation to his disability status. It came after stops at FC Southport and AFC Barrow at the Kidderminster Harriers, trained by Jan Mølby, to the situation that he was not allowed to follow his teammates into professional football after winning the Football Conference 2000. Two years later this was repeated when he also rose to the fourth highest division with Boston United via the detour FC Southport . The last active station was then in the 2002/03 season playing in the Northern Premier League team from Accrington Stanley , with whom he again rose to the Football Conference, but then ended his active career in the footballing lower houses in June 2003.

At the beginning of the 2003/04 season, Marsh took his first head coach position at Burscough FC , but resigned from this in October 2003 after a weak start to the season. In the summer of 2006 he worked for a short time in the coaching staff of FC Southport, started a position as a coach at Northwich Victoria in February 2008 and, after the dismissal of player- coach Dino Maamria in October 2008, took over the sports management at short notice. Shortly thereafter, also interim managed the fortunes of Bradford Park Avenue , but declined a permanent commitment to the club. Instead, he devoted himself to youth work and initially took over the support of the U-16 team at Liverpool FC before he was promoted to coach of the U-18 team in July 2011.

Title / Awards

literature

  • Hugman, Barry J .: Premier League: The Players - A Complete Guide to Every Player 1992-93 . Tony Williams Publishing, 1992, ISBN 1-869833-15-5 , pp. 241 f .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1995-96 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1995, ISBN 0-09-180854-5 , pp. 139 .
  2. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1996-97 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1996, ISBN 1-85291-571-4 , pp. 159 .
  3. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1997-98 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1997, ISBN 1-85291-581-1 , pp. 179 .
  4. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1998-99 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1998, ISBN 1-85291-588-9 , pp. 197 .
  5. ^ "Marsh moves into coaching" (BBC Sport)
  6. ↑ "Burscough appoint Marsh" (BBC Sport)
  7. ^ "Marsh ends spell with Southport" (BBC Sport)
  8. ^ "Marsh is new coach at Northwich" (BBC Sport)
  9. ↑ "Maamria sacked as Northwich boss" (BBC Sport)
  10. ^ "Former Reds star Mike Marsh happy developing stars of the future" (Liverpool Echo)
  11. ↑ "Reds announce Academy changes" (Liverpool FC)
personal data
SURNAME Marsh, Mike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marsh, Michael Andrew (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Liverpool , England