Roger Davies (soccer player)

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Roger Davies
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Roger Davies (1980)
Personnel
Surname Roger Davies
birthday October 25, 1950
place of birth Wolverhampton ,  England
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
until 1971 Bridgnorth Town
1971 Worcester City
1971-1976 Derby County 114 (31)
1972 →  Preston North End  (loan) 2 0(0)
1976-1977 Club Bruges 34 (21)
1977-1979 Leicester City 26 0(6)
1979 Tulsa roughnecks 22 0(8)
1979-1980 Derby County 22 0(3)
1980-1982 Seattle Sounders 65 (32)
1983 Fort Lauderdale Strikers 18 0(3)
1983 Burnley FC 0 0(0)
1983-1984 Darlington FC 10 0(1)
1984-1985 Gresley Rovers
FC Stapenhill
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1974 England U-23 1 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1984-1985 Gresley Rovers (player-manager)
1 Only league games are given.

Roger Davies (born October 25, 1950 in Wolverhampton ) is a former English football player . The striker won the English championship with Derby County in 1975 and two years later in the service of Club Bruges the "double" of championship and cup in Belgium. In the North American NASL he was then active for three different clubs and he was awarded in 1980 as the league-wide most valuable player ("MVP").

Athletic career

Derby County

In September 1971 Davies joined the English first division club Derby County . Only recently had played in the low-class Midland Football Combination for the small club Bridgnorth Town and left this club in August 1971 for Worcester City . Worcester was after all active in the Southern League and the performance of the tall center forward must have made such an impression that Derby paid the not inconsiderable sum of £ 12,000 for Davies' move.

His first appearance in professional league football he had first in August 1972 during a loan period at Preston North End . In the "Rams", however, he was only used in the 1971/72 season in the less important Texaco Cup and in the reserve team. In the B-Elf he had won the Central League regardless and from the following season 1972/73 he managed more to gain a foothold in the regular formation. He scored seven goals in 20 league games. In addition, there was a hat trick in the FA Cup against Tottenham Hotspur when Derby County converted a 1-3 deficit into a 5-3 win just before the end. In the semi-final second leg of the European championship against Juventus Turin (0-0 after a 3-1-1 in the first leg) he let himself be carried away after a provocation to assault Francesco Morini and was sent off for it. In March 1974 Davies made his first (and only) appearance for the English U-23 team by substitution against Scotland (2-0) and when he won the English championship in 1975 he was a fixture in the team. To the success he contributed twelve own goals and all five goals for the 5-0 home win against Luton Town on March 29, 1975 went to his account.

Stations after Derby

Just over a year later, Davies moved to Belgium for Club Bruges in August 1976, where he was part of the team that won the “double” of the championship and the cup . Before the end of the subsequent 1977/78 season, he was drawn back to the English Premier League at Leicester City in December 1977 . There he rose to the end of the season as bottom of the table and in the following year he stayed with just two goals below expectations before he moved to the North American NASL to the Tulsa Roughnecks in March 1979 . In Tulsa, Davies' former Derby County striker Andy Hinton had taken over the coaching office and persuaded him to move. Due to sporadic injuries, his performances here remained changeable and his last return to English professional football six months later was not a good star either. In Derby County, which fought for relegation in the 1979/80 season , he scored only three goals in 22 championship games and before the end of the season, which ultimately resulted in relegation, he followed Hinton once more to North America. Hinton had meanwhile hired in Seattle with the Sounders and from March 1980 Davies went there to hunt for goals. 1980 was Davies' most successful period in US professional football. He scored 25 goals and was named Most Valuable Player in the League ("MVP") at the end of the season. Davies was still active in Seattle for two more years, playing for the club in organized indoor soccer. The last stop in the USA was the Fort Lauderdale Strikers in 1983 , where he only managed three more goals.

Arrived in the autumn of his career, Davies then played again in his English homeland after a short stay at Burnley FC from November 1983 for the fourth division FC Darlington and from February 1984 for the lower class Gresley Rovers . In Church Gresley he worked as a player- coach between July 1984 and January 1985 . The last active station was in the 1985/86 season with FC Stapenhill in the Leicestershire Senior League before Davies retired . In the period that followed, he continued to play football in the Derby region. He mainly started as a radio reporter reporting on games from Derby County.

Title / Awards

literature

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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "England - U-23 International Results- Details" (RSSSF)
personal data
SURNAME Davies, Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolverhampton