Peter Marinello
| Peter Marinello | ||
.png) Peter Marinello in 1970
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Peter Marinello | |
| birthday | February 20, 1950 | |
| place of birth | Edinburgh , Scotland | |
| position | Right winger | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| Salvesen Boys Club | ||
| Hibernian Edinburgh | ||
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1967-1970 | Hibernian Edinburgh | 45 ( 5) |
| 1970-1973 | Arsenal FC | 38 ( 3) |
| 1973-1975 | Portsmouth FC | 95 ( 7) |
| 1975-1988 | Motherwell FC | 89 (12) |
| 1978 | Canberra City | 11 ( 1) |
| 1978-1980 | Fulham FC | 27 ( 1) |
| 1981-1983 | Heart of Midlothian | 21 ( 3) |
| 1983-1984 | Partick Thistle | 6 ( 0) |
| Indoor | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1980-1981 | Phoenix Inferno | 25 (17) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1969-1970 | Scotland U-23 | 2 ( 0) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Peter Marinello (born February 20, 1950 in Edinburgh ) is a former Scottish football player . As a highly talented right winger, he was hailed as the "new George Best " in 1970 . After moving to London's Arsenal FC , however, he could not resist the temptations of the “celebrity lifestyle”, alcohol and gambling and, coupled with injury problems and lack of discipline, he seldom called up his potential.
Athletic career
Marinello grew up in a working-class family and his youth in Edinburgh was largely shaped by football. At the age of ten he joined the Salvesen Boys Club , one of the best youth clubs in Edinburgh at the time. There he fell on the former world-class player Stanley Matthews in the mid-1960s , who was now Port Vale's coach . When the Salvesen Boys defeated the Port Vale youth selection 6-1, Matthews Marinello tried hard to convince a change. However, the 15-year-old did not want to leave his home country, but used the interest expressed to his advantage in such a way that he received a contract with Hibernian Edinburgh the following year .
As with Matthews, Marinello's preferred position was to be found on the right wing and after his first appearances in the reserve team, he quickly came to the train in the first team. After the turn of the year 1967/68 he made his debut against the Raith Rovers (2-2) and by the end of the season he had played 14 competitive games. He gained greater fame in the 1969/70 season when he developed into a key player in the "Hibs", which ultimately ended up in third place. With two goals in a 3-1 away win at Glasgow Rangers , he catapulted himself into the public eye and with his long hair the media quickly drew comparisons with George Best , the extravagant Manchester United striker . His career now picked up speed for him and before the end of the season he switched to the English first division club Arsenal .
Arsenal had the transfer cost £ 100,000 and spent a six-figure sum on a player for the first time. Although the English capital city club superficially classified the young Scotsman as a long-term reinforcement and intended a cautious build-up, public expectations were high. When Marinello scored a goal on his debut at Old Trafford on January 10, 1970 against Manchester United (1: 2), events rolled over. Numerous invitations to clubs, shows such as Top of the Pops and recordings followed and Marinello was not infrequently subject to the lure of the big London city. In contrast, coach Bertie Mee continued to follow a long-term strategy and Marinello was usually on the bench for important games. When he came to his first long series of missions, he was unlucky with a knee injury that ultimately had to be operated on. As a result, he was rarely on the field in the 1970/71 double season. In March 1972, the quarter-final meeting with the later title holder Ajax Amsterdam in the European Champions Cup developed to a high point for him . There he demonstrated a good performance in the second leg, was even praised by Johan Cruyff , but had missed a great chance to score. Just over a year later, when the sporting breakthrough had still not occurred, Marinello decided to leave Arsenal for the second division club Portsmouth FC . An important motive of his decision was also of a financial nature and later Marinello regretted the change, which initiated a clear sporting downward trend.
In the two and a half years in Portsmouth as a second division player, he could no longer build on at least sporadically shown top performances. Rather, Marinello had to do with himself and in addition to his gambling addiction, alcohol problems and women's stories, his wife, who had been suffering from depression since the birth of his first son in 1972, was a burden for him. In 1975 Marinello returned to Scotland, where he played from then on for Motherwell FC . To celebrate without significant success, he left in 1978 the club back to first for a short time in the Australian National Soccer League for Canberra City and from December 1978 back in London for Fulham to act - in training he met here (ironically) to George Best, who kept fit. In Fulham, however, Marinello was only considered a player "for the gallery" with whom there was no long-term planning, and so the journey in 1980 continued into North American indoor soccer to Phoenix Inferno . After his return to Scotland, he played for Heart of Midlothian and Partick Thistle until 1984 , before only playing for smaller clubs such as Broxburn Athletic and thus ending the once promising career without any notable achievements.
After football
At the time of his return to Edinburgh, Marinello had already tried to establish a separate business leg outside of football. After buying a restaurant (with the name Marinello’s ) and renovating a house, however, he fell victim to a fraudster who systematically deprived the company of its assets, disappeared with the proceeds and Marinello, who was liable with his private assets, with liabilities of 300,000 Pound left to itself. Marinello fled in alcohol and gambling addiction, and when he owed money to a local criminal, his problems became existential. With the help of a new venture in Spain, he hoped for better luck, but one more time he met a scammer in the form of a London contact who eventually cheated Marinello for £ 110,000. Marinello bought a gun, sought out the fraudster on site and ended up with the police, confronted with charges of attempted murder - with a warning he ultimately got away lightly. In 1994 Marinello filed for bankruptcy .
In 2007 Marinello published his autobiography Fallen Idle , in which Marinello, who now lives in Bournemouth , openly discussed the failure of his footballing career and the business and family problems.
literature
- Peter Marinello: Fallen Idle . Headline, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7553-1558-1 .
Web links
- Arsenal FC profile
- NASL statistics from Peter Marinello
- Statistical data from the Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Database
- Profile at Playerhistory.com ( Memento from February 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Scotland U23: Marinello, Peter" (Fitbastats)
- ^ "Hibernian: Games Involving Marinello, Peter in season 1969/1970" (Fitbastats)
- ↑ "Peter Marinello: 'I bought a handgun and went looking for the guy who'd taken my money'" (The Guardian)
- ↑ “What Happened Next? When the whistle blows: Exclusive interviews with retired football legends: Peter Marinello " (FourFourTwo)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Marinello, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | scottish soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Edinburgh |