Robert Slater

This article is about Australian soccer player Robert "Robbie" Slater. For the Scottish soccer goalkeeper Robert "Bert" Slater see Bert Slater .

Robbie Slater
Personnel
Surname	Robert Slater
birthday	November 22, 1964
place of birth	Ormskirk , Lancashire ,  England
position	midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1982-1986	St. George Saints	98 (28)
1986	Blacktown City Demons	19 0(2)
1987-1989	Sydney United	73 (17)
1989-1990	RSC Anderlecht	0 0(0)
1990-1994	RC Lens	121 0(8)
1994-1995	Blackburn Rovers	18 0(0)
1995-1996	West Ham United	26 0(2)
1996-1998	Southampton FC	40 0(2)
1998	Wolverhampton Wanderers	6 0(0)
1998-2001	Northern Spirit FC	61 (10)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1990-1997	Australia	28 (1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2002-2003	Manly Warringah Dolphins
1 Only league games are given.

Robert "Robbie" Slater (born November 22, 1964 in Ormskirk , Lancashire , England ) is a former Australian football player. Although he was born in England, he played for the Australian national football team after moving to Australia early . For this he played forty-four international matches from 1990 to 1997 and scored six goals during this time.

League career

Robert Slater, called Robbie, was born on November 22nd, 1964 in Ormskirk, England. As a teenager he came to Australia and only played through youth teams until he was signed by the St. George Saints in 1982 and from then on played in the Australian National Soccer League, the predecessor of the A-League . In 1983 he became Australian champions by winning the National Soccer League. The next year he toyed with the idea of ​​moving to Nottingham Forest , since the two clubs could not agree, he stayed in Australia. At the end of the 1985/86 season he moved to the Blacktown City Demons for a brief stint in 1987 to join Sydney United . After two years he was only in conversation with Hajduk Split , when an agreement could not be reached, he moved to RSC Anderlecht for a year in 1989 . There he could not prevail, however, and at the end of the season switched to the then Belgian second division club RC Lens . He played in Lens until 1994 and experienced one of the most tragic moments of his career during this time. In a game against Paris Saint-Germain , he was attacked by a Parisian fan with a baseball bat, which nearly killed him. During this time he also met his future wife Natalie. At the end of the 1993/94 season he moved to England for the Blackburn Rovers and became the first Australian player to become English football champions in 1995. At the end of the season he moved to West Ham United , the following year to Southampton FC and in 1998 again for a few months for Wolverhampton Wanderers . At the end of the 1997/98 season he went back to Australia and switched to the newly formed Northern Spirit, where he played until the end of his career in 2001.

National team

Slater made a total of 44 games for the Australian national team between 1990 and 1997 , including 28 full internationals. He played his last game at the 1997 Confederations Cup against the team from Saudi Arabia . He was also inducted into the Hall of Fame for the Australian Football Association. In 1988 he took part in the Olympic football tournament in South Korea.

After the football career

Slater wrote an autobiography about his career in the late 1990s called The Hard Way . Today he analyzes and comments on matches in the English Premier League and the Australian A-League for the Australian pay-TV channel Fox Sports . He also coached the Australian football club Manly Warringah Dolphins in the 2002/03 season and now runs Newington College, a football school in New South Wales.

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Where Are They Now? - Robert Slater ( memo of November 14, 2006 on the Internet Archive ); Article on premierleague.com, accessed April 28, 2010