Peter Daniel (soccer player, 1946)

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Peter Daniel
Personnel
Surname Peter Aylmer Daniel
birthday December 22, 1946
place of birth Ripley ,  England
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
1963-1964 Derby County
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1964-1979 Derby County 195 (7)
1978 →  Vancouver Whitecaps  (loan) 20 (1)
1979 Vancouver Whitecaps 27 (1)
1980 Burton Albion
Belper Town
1 Only league games are given.

Peter Aylmer Daniel (born December 22, 1946 in Ripley , Derbyshire ) is a retired English football player . The defender was under contract with Derby County for many years . His performances were overshadowed by those of his teammates due to his mostly unspectacular and safety-oriented style of play and he was often active for a long time in the reserve team before successfully replacing the long-term injured Roy McFarland and winning the English championship in the 1974/75 season .

Athletic career

In August 1963, 16-year-old Peter Daniel joined Derby County . With the then coached by Tim Ward second division, he signed a good year later in December 1964, the first professional contract. He was among a number of promising talents in the Ward era and after his debut on October 2, 1965 against Bristol City (2-1), he became a regular as a full-back . When the "Rams" in the 1966/67 season then crashed to 17th place , Ward was dismissed and under the successor Brian Clough it came to extensive changes in the squad. Daniel was only one of five players with whom Clough planned longer term in Derby, but from October 1967 he was pushed more and more into the role of substitute and reserve team. While the newly formed team won the second division championship in 1969 and then won the English runner-up title twice in a row, Daniel was only marginally involved with a total of 15 championship appearances in three years.

Not once did he come into play for the senior team in the 1971/72 championship season ; instead he had played a few games in the Texaco Cup and was on the pitch in both final games against Airdrieonians FC . He also won the title in the Central League with the reserve team . In the following season 1972/73 Derby County could not defend the title, but Daniel was used in nine league games - he represented each of the four regular players in the defense line. He slowly fought his way back into focus, on the one hand the change of coach from Clough to Dave Mackay , but above all the serious injury to Roy McFarland in 1974 played a major role. At the side of Colin Todd Daniel formed the new defense center and the basis for the renewed English championship in the 1974/75 season . It was only towards the end of the season that McFarland returned to the team and Daniel, who was named the best “Player of the Year” internally for his performances, returned to the “second guard”. In the following four years up to February 1979 he sporadically helped out in various defense positions and in doing so he accumulated 49 league appearances. His last appearance on December 16, 1978 ended with a 2-0 defeat against Arsenal .

Daniel moved to the North American NASL to the Canadian Vancouver Whitecaps in the spring of 1979 . There he had played on loan the year before and the second championship round ended with winning the NASL Soccer Bowl . He then returned to England and played from March 1980 for Burton Albion in the Northern Premier League and from October 1980 for Belper Town in the Midland League .

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literature

  • Gerald Mortimer: Derby County - The Complete Record . Breedon Books, 2006, ISBN 978-1-85983-517-3 , pp. 71 .

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personal data
SURNAME Daniel, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Daniel, Peter Aylmer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Ripley