Patrick Walker

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Patrick Walker
Patrick Walker.jpg
Walker as trainer for Sandefjord (2008)
Personnel
Surname Patrick Joseph Anthony Walker
birthday December 20, 1959
place of birth CarlowRepublic of Ireland
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1977-1981 Gillingham FC 51 0(3)
1980 OTP Oulu 11 0(2)
1982 Käpylän Pallo
1982-1983 Bohemians Dublin
1983-1986 BK hooks 89 (13)
1987-1991 GIF Sundsvall 60 0(2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
Ireland U-21
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1992-1994 Varberg's BoIS
1994-1996 Kalmar FF
1998-2000 Örebro SK
2001-2004 GIF Sundsvall
2005-2007 Örebro SK
2008-2011 Sandefjord Fotball
2011– Assyriska Föreningen
1 Only league games are given.

Patrick Walker (born December 20, 1959 in Carlow ) is a former Irish football player who now works as a coach. His sons Kevin and Robert Walker are both soccer players themselves.

Career

Player career

Walker's talent was discovered by a scout as a student. Therefore, he left his hometown in 1976 and joined Gillingham FC . In October 1977 he received his first professional contract, on his league debut on January 13, 1978 against Colchester United , he scored the goal as a substitute for the 1-1 final. For the team he ran on in the third division of the Football League in the following years . In addition, after he had already played ten internationals for the Irish junior national team, he was appointed in the summer of 1979 for the tournament of Toulon in the Irish U-21 selection , in which he could not establish himself in the long term. Even in the club, he did not make the long-term jump into the regular formation and supported the team around players like Billy Hughes , Steve Bruce , Micky Adams or John Overton mainly as a supplementary player. In the summer of 1981 he left Gillingham and then played briefly back on the Irish island and joined the Irish capital club Bohemians Dublin , with whom he lost the Irish Cup final in 1983 against the Sligo Rovers with 1: 2 under coach Billy Young . He also had two engagements in Finland: in 1980 he played for some time for the first division club OTP Oulu , and in 1982 for the third division team Käpylän Pallo .

After Walker met his Swedish-born wife in London, he decided to move to her mother country in 1983. He joined the Gothenburg club BK Häcken , but with whom he was relegated from the Allsvenskan at the end of the 1983 season. Until 1986 he stayed with the club in the second division. He then returned to the Allsvenskan when he joined the GIF Sundsvall for the 1987 season. After three years he was relegated with his new club, but managed to get promoted again with the team. In 1991 he had to end his career due to an injury.

Coaching career

Walker had already attended FA coaching courses during his time at Gillingham FC . Immediately after the end of his career, he took over training at the lower-class Varbergs BoIS , where his sons took their first footballing steps. 1994 recruited him from the second division Kalmar FF . With the team he finished one point behind the Gothenburg club Örgryte IS in second place and had to compete in the relegation for promotion to Allsvenskan, but there the Stockholm club Hammarby IF prevailed. After a fourth place in the following season, the club slipped in the 1996 season to the bottom of the table, so the club separated from him.

In 1998, Walker took over as coach at Örebro SK and looked after the team alongside Sven Dahlkvist . Then he went to his former play station GIF Sundsvall. With the club he achieved relegation in the relegation games against BK Häcken in the 2003 season. Despite a seventh place the following year, he decided to look for a new challenge and left the club at the end of the season. He returned to Örebro SK, who had to be relegated from the first division. After a fifth place in the first year, the team returned to the top class as second in the second division season 2006 . There Walker played with the club against relegation and after some moderate results, the club's management decided to release him in August 2007.

In May 2008, Walker signed a two-year contract with the Norwegian club Sandefjord Fotball . At the end of the season he was promoted to the Tippeligaen with the team , so that the club management extended his contract to the end of 2010 at an early stage in April 2009. In the first division, he finished eighth with the team. Although he rose with the team at the end of the 2010 season in the second division, the club still stuck to him. After a weak start to the season in the Adeccoligaen in the following season, however, the club dismissed him, who replaced him on an interim basis with Mikael Källström and later Arne Sandstø .

In August 2011 Walker returned to Sweden as a coach. At Assyriska Föreningen he took over the office of Göran Marklund , who had replaced Rikard Norling, who had switched to Malmö FF , on an interim basis.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Roger Triggs: The Men Who Made Gillingham Football Club . Tempus Publishing Ltd., Stroud 2001, ISBN 0-7524-2243-X , pp. 326 .
  2. 'Drogheda can do a job on Helsingborgs' (accessed June 15, 2010)
  3. a b timesonline.co.uk: "He's the Irish boss who's big in Sweden - who is he and how did he get there?" (Accessed June 15, 2010)
  4. expressen.se: “Walker lämnar Gif Sundsvall”  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on June 15, 2010)@1@ 2Template: dead link / www.expressen.se  
  5. dn.se: "Patrik Walker får gå" (accessed on June 15, 2010)
  6. nt.se: "Sandefjord Fotball" (accessed on June 15, 2010)
  7. fotbollskanalen.se: "Walker förlänger med Sandefjord" (accessed on June 15, 2010)
  8. dn.se: "Walker sparkas av Sandefjord" (accessed on July 15, 2011)
  9. fotbollskanalen.se: "KLART - Norling ersätts av Walker" (accessed on August 2, 2011)