Roy Aitken

Roy Aitken
Roy Aitken, 1982
Personnel
Surname	Robert Sime Aitken
birthday	November 24, 1958
place of birth	Irvine ,  Scotland
size	183 cm
position	Defensive midfield central defender
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1976-1990	Celtic Glasgow	483 (40)
1990-1991	Newcastle United	54 0(1)
1991-1992	FC St. Mirren	34 0(1)
1992-1995	Aberdeen FC	29 0(2)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1976-1984	Scotland U21	16 0(2)
1980-1991	Scotland	57 0(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1995-1997	Aberdeen FC
2003-2006	Aston Villa (assistant coach)
2006-2007	Scotland (assistant coach)
2007-2010	Birmingham City (Assistant Coach)
2010-2011	Al-Ahli (assistant coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Robert Sime "Roy" Aitken (born November 24, 1958 in Irvine , Scotland ) is a former football player ( midfielder ) and today's coach. He was active for 14 years for Celtic Glasgow (from 1987 to 1990 as captain) and also played for Newcastle United , FC St. Mirren and FC Aberdeen . With the Scottish national team he took part in the soccer world championships in 1986 and 1990 , but retired with this in each case in the preliminary round.

He has been a coach since the end of his active career. From 1995 to 1997 he coached Aberdeen FC , with whom he won the Scottish League Cup in 1996. In June 2003 he became assistant coach at Aston Villa in Birmingham under David O'Leary . After an offer from the Scottish Football Association, he left Aston Villa to be assistant coach of the Scottish national team from January 2006 to November 2007 , when he followed Alex McLeish to Birmingham City , where Aitken continued to work as his assistant coach. In July 2010 he left Birmingham City again to work as an assistant coach at the al-Ahli Club in Dubai until May 2011.

literature

• Michael Nordmann: 1000 footballers. The best players ever . Verlag Naumann & Göbel, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-625-10538-1 , p. 18.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Roy Aitken's profile on transfermarkt.de