Niall Quinn

Niall Quinn
Personnel
Surname	Niall John Quinn
birthday	October 6, 1966
place of birth	Dublin ,  Ireland
size	193 cm
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
	Manortown United
	Arsenal FC
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1983-1990	Arsenal FC	67 (14)
1990-1996	Manchester City	204 (66)
1996-2002	Sunderland AFC	203 (61)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1986-1989	Ireland U-21	5 0(0)
1986-2002	Ireland	92 (21)
1990	Ireland B	1 0(2)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2006	Sunderland AFC
1 Only league games are given.

Niall John Quinn , MBE ( Irish Niall Seán Ó Cuinn , born October 6, 1966 in Dublin , Ireland ) is a former Irish football player and was the top scorer of the national team until 2004 . From 2006 to 2011 he was President of the English club AFC Sunderland .

Club career

In his youth, Quinn, who initially played Gaelic football at the same time, played for the club in his Dublin home district, Manortown United . In 1983 he accepted an offer to go to England to play for Arsenal's youth team. 1986/87 came Quinn, who played as a striker , to his first appearances for the professional team of the Londoners. However, by 1989 he only made 94 appearances in six years, in which he scored 20 goals (including 67 league games (14 goals)).

In March 1990 the Irishman moved to Manchester City for £ 800,000 . There Quinn had a more successful time, in six years he came to 245 appearances and scored 78 goals. However, in 1993/94 he was out for a long time due to a cruciate ligament injury .

In 1996 he moved to Sunderland AFC . After Quinn was initially out of action for half a year due to an injury, he made 203 league games for the north-east of England by the end of his playing career in 2002, in which he scored 61 goals. He scored 21 goals in the 1998/99 season alone and helped his club to win the title in the First Division and thus to rise again to the top class. H. the Premier League. The last game of his club career was against West Ham United in October 2002 .

National team career

Niall Quinn was first appointed to the Irish national football team in 1986 . He was in the squad for the European Championship in 1988 in the Federal Republic of Germany and came there for a job, in the preliminary round victory of Ireland over England in the Neckar Stadium in Stuttgart .

At the 1990 World Cup in Italy , Quinn was used four times and scored one goal in the group game against the Netherlands .

Due to a serious injury, he dropped out for the 1994 World Cup . In 2002, however, Quinn was 35 years old again in the squad at the World Cup in South Korea and Japan and was substituted on three times, in the preliminary round matches against Germany and Saudi Arabia and in the round of 16 against Spain . In the same year he ended his national team career.

Niall Quinn scored 21 goals in 92 games for Ireland. His last on October 6, 2001, his 35th birthday, made him the top scorer for his national team until October 2004 when he was overtaken by Robbie Keane .

After the active career

In 2006 Quinn took over shares in his former club Sunderland AFC and became president. He was also the coach for six games in the same year before handing this over to fellow countryman Roy Keane .

social commitment

Quinn is an ambassador for Show Racism the Red Card .

Web links

Commons : Niall Quinn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Niall Quinn in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Quinn game for Gaelic ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Show Racism the Red Card-The FA Charity of the Year 2011