Roy Keane

Roy Keane
Roy Keane in 2014
Personnel
Surname	Roy Maurice Keane
birthday	August 10, 1971
place of birth	Cork ,  Ireland
position	central midfield
Juniors
Years	station
1980-1989	Rockmount AFC
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1989-1990	Cobh Ramblers	26 0(4)
1990-1993	Nottingham Forest	114 (22)
1993-2005	Manchester United	326 (33)
2005-2006	Celtic Glasgow	10 0(1)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
	Ireland U-21	4 0(0)
1991-2005	Ireland	67 0(9)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2006-2008	Sunderland AFC
2009-2011	Ipswich Town
2013–	Ireland (assistant coach)
2014	Aston Villa (assistant coach)
2019	Nottingham Forest (Assistant Coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Roy Maurice Keane (born August 10, 1971 in Cork ) is an Irish football coach and former player. The central midfielder , who is strong in combat and equipped with great leadership qualities, became known especially for his more than twelve professional years at Manchester United . There, the World Cup participant won seven English championships , four FA Cup trophies in 1994 and the Champions League in 1999 - although not used in the final due to a yellow card suspension . After a last brief engagement for Celtic Glasgow in the 2005/06 season, when he again won the Scottish Championship and the League Cup , he switched to coaching. To date, the last station in club football was the English second division side Ipswich Town , for which Keane was active as the sporting director from April 2009 to January 2011. In autumn 2013 he was appointed the new team boss of the Irish national football team together with Martin O'Neill .

youth

Roy Keane came from a working class family in Mayfield , a suburb of the city of Cork . Due to the tense economic situation, his father Maurice had to work in various jobs to support the family. Young Roy was an avid athlete who loved soccer and boxing , but had more talent for soccer and joined the Rockmount AFC when he was eight . After graduating from high school, Keane only took odd jobs to keep having enough time for football. Like many Irish footballers, Keane was hoping for a lucrative professional contract in the English or Scottish league.

Player career

Club career

Cobh Ramblers (1989-1990)

Eddie O'Rourke, who was the youth coach of the Cobh Ramblers at the end of the 1980s, is considered the discoverer of Roy Keane . This convinced Keane to move from Rockmount in 1989 and the newcomer quickly rose in favor of the sporting leadership of the Irish first division club . Often the robust and physically strong midfielder even had to play two games on one weekend - one for the youth and one for the senior team. He soon aroused the interest of English clubs and a talent scout from Nottingham Forest was present at a youth cup match against the Belvedere Boys . Shortly afterwards, Keane auditioned for a test training session, and then head coach Brian Clough , who was in charge in Nottingham, was finally convinced by the 18-year-old Irishman. He signed Keane for £ 47,000 in the summer of 1990 .

Nottingham Forest (1990-1993)

Keane's start in Nottingham was problematic as he struggled with acclimatization problems and coach Clough asked several times to be allowed to travel home. At this important early stage in his career, Clough was ready to do so, and Keane, in his later autobiography, expressed great gratitude and cited compassion as an important factor in overcoming the initial obstacles in professional football. Keane showed himself sporty for the new club for the first time during the summer preparation in the Netherlands. There he acted for the U-21 selection and converted the decisive penalty kick in a friendly game tournament in the final against Haarlem. Keanes way went quickly to the reserve team from Nottingham Forest in the "first team", where he made his debut against Liverpool at the beginning of the 1990/91 season . Consistently good performances for "Forest" ensured that Clough Keane used more and more regularly as the playing time increased. On the way to the regular place in 1991, Keane ousted Steve Hodge, a former England international. In addition, three goals had come before reaching the FA Cup final in 1991 , in which he finally failed with "Forest" just by Tottenham Hotspur . The following year he moved into another final in the League Cup, where he lost 1-0 to his later club Manchester United .

After the introduction of the Premier League for the 1992/93 season , Nottingham had to relegate bottom of the table. For the ambitious Keane it was clear that he did not want to go along the way to the second division and he had therefore negotiated an exit clause. It came to a break with Clough, who insulted Keane as a "greedy child" in view of his high salary demands and said that although Keane was currently the most promising player in football, he would not ruin the club. Little of the discrepancies stuck with their own supporters, which was expressed in the fan vote for the best player of the 1992/93 season. When Nottingham's relegation was certain and Keane appealed to the release clause, the Blackburn Rovers quickly became a major interest and the clubs involved reached a basic transfer agreement plus the payment of a transfer fee of four million pounds. On the very day the contract papers were due to be signed, the Manchester United coach called Alex Ferguson at Keane and persuaded him to break the agreement with Blackburn and switch to "his" club instead. Finally, within two weeks, the change for the then British record fee of 3.75 million pounds was arranged.

Manchester United (1993-2005)

Roy Keane at Manchester United

Manchester United were on their way to becoming the dominant English team in the early 1990s and had won the league title for the first time in 26 years. Coach Ferguson had intended for Keane in the medium term as the successor to the aging Bryan Robson and in his first home game on August 19, 1993, the newcomer scored twice in a 3-0 win over Sheffield United . At the end of the season, Man United defended the championship and won the first double in the club's history. Ferguson then began to rebuild the team: he sold older players and replaced them with young talents such as David Beckham , Gary Neville , Paul Scholes and Nicky Butt , which is why Keane was soon one of the experienced players in the squad. At the beginning he was not only in his preferred position in the central midfield, but also helped out in the 1994/95 season, for example, in the right-back position or in the central defense. Basically, however, he was the fixed point in the central midfield of the rebuilt United team with his strength in duels and passing security, and quite a few experts have already described him as the best midfielder in the Premier League. During the upheaval phase, a not insignificant factor was that Keane harmonized well with the young Butt in the "control center", who suddenly had to take on his responsible role after the surprising change from Paul Ince . Not only did he celebrate the double success of the FA Cup and the English championship with United in 1996 , rumors of a possible move to FC Barcelona , who was coached by Bobby Robson at the time, also surfaced. Keane took a clear position on this by signing a new five-year deal in Manchester in August 1996 and winning his third Premier League title with the club - the club's fourth championship in five years. After the departure of Éric Cantona , Keane took over his captaincy in the summer of 1997, but the up to now steady positive development was suddenly interrupted when he tore his cruciate ligament in September 1997 during a running duel with Alf-Inge Haaland in the game at Leeds United . Since Haaland spontaneously suspected him of "simulating", Keane returned the favor to him after 3½ years with a serious and deliberate foul. Not least Keanes long injury break, which lasted until shortly before the end of the 1997/98 season, was partly responsible for the fact that Manchester United remained without a trophy this year.

Keane demonstrated his special skills again in the 1998/99 season. He missed only seven competitive games in the entire season and again only because he was spared during all league cup games for the other three main competitions. Keane played a decisive role in the triple success of the Champions League , FA Cup and Premier League , which already began in the group phase when he scored the opening goal in the important final game against FC Bayern Munich (final score: 1: 1) and thus qualified for the knockout games just succeeded. His contribution in the first FA Cup semi-final against Arsenal was also very important, although he saw the red card later in the match and was banned from the replay. Probably one of his best performances of his entire career was the Champions League semi- final second leg at Juventus , when his team was already 2-0 behind and the game under his leadership spectacularly turned the game into a 3-2 win. Due to a yellow card suspension, however, he was "condemned" to watch his team's 2-1 final win over FC Bayern Munich. Keane had once again aroused covetousness among the opponents from Turin, but with another contract extension, which, according to press reports, earned him a weekly salary of £ 55,000, United again fought off the transfer bids. Sporting highlights in the 1999/2000 season were winning the World Cup when Keane scored the only goal to make it 1-0 against Palmeiras São Paulo , winning what is now the fifth English championship and for him personally being voted England's Footballer of the Year - both through the journalists 'association as well as the players' union PFA.

In the years that followed, Keane interpreted his role a little more defensively, which earned him fewer goals, but enabled players like David Beckham in the 2000/01 season to increasingly take the offensive. Even though the Champions League season ended somewhat disappointingly in the quarter-finals despite a promising start, Keane defended the English championship with "United" in 2001 . Another example of United's dependency on its skipper "Keane" was the untitled 2001/02 season, in which the captain was absent from late September to early November 2001 due to injury and was only used once in the back four after his return contain the tide of goals conceded. A year later he won the seventh and last English championship of his active career and although he was now in the "autumn of career" and a hip operation had temporarily put him out of action, he made a significant contribution to the Premier League success - but not It was irrelevant that after his (temporary) resignation from the Irish national team, he focused entirely on club football. Although Keane got double competition in his position with Kléberson and Éric Djemba-Djemba , who were newly signed for the 2003/04 season , he continued to defend his regular place and led the team to the fourth after a 3-0 final win against Millwall FC - and also last - FA Cup success in his career. It was Keane's last title in English football as an active player and after a 2004/05 season that ended without a trophy, Keane announced that the 2005/06 season would be his last at Old Trafford . At the beginning this was negatively influenced by his chronic back and pelvic problems and suddenly in November 2005 the club announced the immediate separation from its well-deserved player, which enabled him to move to Celtic Glasgow in the following month - and thus fulfill a "childhood dream" was. The breakup was triggered by an escalating argument between Keane and his trainer Alex Ferguson . A few weeks earlier, in an interview with the club's own television station "MUTV", Keane had discussed the club's transfer policy and several other players, including a. Rio Ferdinand , Kieran Richardson , Alan Smith , John O'Shea and Darren Fletcher harshly criticized. Ferguson then banned the broadcast of the interview.

In retrospect, Keane was coach Ferguson's extended arm. With above-average commitment and great combat strength, he always went ahead. Also off the pitch, Keane always expressed his opinion and stood up for it, even when he criticized the Man United fans, for example . The captain's great worth was evident when it came to Keane's contract extension and Manchester United made him the highest-paid player in his history. On the other hand, he always had to struggle with his temperament and indiscipline, so he received 13 red cards during his career. In 12½ years he played 480 competitive games and scored 51 goals, including 326 Premier League games (33 goals), 60 FA Cup games (two goals) and 82 European Cup matches (14 goals).

Celtic Glasgow (2005-2006)

After signing his contract in Glasgow on December 15, 2005, Keane played for the first time in a third-round cup match against lower-class FC Clyde in January 2006 and surprisingly lost 2-1. Despite the unsuccessful debut, the remaining time of the 2005/06 season was positive and a derby win against the Rangers , in which Keane was named best player ("Man of the Match"), he won the Scottish Championship and the League Cup . But after only half a year his guest appearance in Scotland was over and on medical advice Keane declared the end of his career on June 12, 2006.

On May 9, 2006, his farewell game followed at Old Trafford in front of 69,591 spectators, in which he played one half each for Manchester United and Celtic Glasgow. Keane donated the income from the game to a charity.

Irish national team

For the first time on an international level, Keane played for the Irish U-21 selection against Turkey in 1991 and at this early stage he disliked the organizational deficiencies and lack of professionalism around his own team. This unease remained with him throughout his career in the senior national team , which often led to confrontations with the sports management. When Keane refused to take part in an international trip to Algeria, then coach Jack Charlton threatened him not to let him play for Ireland again, but then called him back to the squad a year later. Opinions also differed with regard to Charlton's style of relying less on the footballing skills of his players and more on running-intensive “ pressing ”. The tension reached its peak during a preparatory tournament in the USA, when Charlton Keane resented a late return to the team quarters and the responsible drinking party with Steve Staunton .

Still, Keane was part of the Irish squad during the 1994 World Cup in the United States . He was there in all of his team's games, including the surprising 1-0 victory in the group game against eventual runners-up Italy . Although Ireland then failed in the second round to the Netherlands (0-2), the team's performance was generally considered successful according to widespread opinion - Keane, on the other hand, did not join in the party mood, described the World Cup participation as a disappointment and later let go Quoting in his autobiography as follows: “There was nothing to celebrate. We haven't achieved much. ”The Irish were unable to qualify for the 1998 World Cup in France , partly because their captain missed most of the qualifying matches due to a torn cruciate ligament. The EURO 2000 was also missed after losing play-off games against Turkey .

It wasn't that time again until 2002 when the new coach Mick McCarthy led Ireland to the World Cup finals in Japan and South Korea . Ireland had - not least because of the consistently good performance of Roy Keane - played a strong qualification, remained undefeated at home and in the end even finished second, ahead of the Netherlands. During the first training session, Keane raised concerns about the national team's quarters, fell out with coach McCarthy and left. Despite the departure of their captain and superstar, the Irish played a good finals. After defeats in the early stages of qualifying for Euro 2004 against Russia (2-4) and Switzerland (1-2), McCarthy resigned in November 2002 and Keane, who had not ruled out a possible return before, celebrated under the new one in April 2004 sporting direction from Brian Kerr against Romania made a comeback. However, the role of team captain continued to be filled by Kenny Cunningham and after Ireland failed to qualify for the finals of the 2006 World Cup in Germany , Keane announced his final resignation from the national team. He had played a total of 67 international matches between 1991 and 2005, scoring nine goals.

Coaching career

Sunderland AFC (2006-2008)

Immediately after the end of his active career it was speculated about a direct follow-up activity as the successor to Celtic coach Gordon Strachan , Keane took over in August 2006 at Sunderland AFC in the second-rate Football League Championship . Shortly before, his compatriot Niall Quinn had become chairman there and in the meantime had also done the training work himself - with little success, as four defeats in a row had proven. Shortly before the end of the transfer window, Keane signed no fewer than six new players, including ex-Manchester colleagues Dwight Yorke and Liam Miller , Ross Wallace and Stanislav Varga, who were signed up by the Celtic . The "race to catch up" began with two wins against Derby County (2-1) and Leeds United (3-0) and with the help of five other reinforcements in the winter - including Jonny Evans and Danny Simpson on loan from Manchester - and a coach who exemplified a high degree of discipline and demanded from his men, the team worked its way from the lower half of the table to the promotion regions. On April 29, 2007, Sunderland secured promotion to the Premier League after Crystal Palace had defeated rivals Derby County, and a week later the club even won the second division championship.

Keanes debut season 2007/08 as Premier League coach was marked by the constant relegation struggle. Despite some severe setbacks, such as the 1: 7 defeat by Everton , the team stabilized during the second half of the season, especially in home games, and prevented relegation on the third to last game day. Again, with Kieran Richardson , Paul McShane , Danny Higginbotham and Phil Bardsley, former players from Manchester strengthened the roster. That this did not bring lasting stability became apparent at the beginning of the 2008/09 season. Keanes team turned in the league cup home game against the lower class Northampton Town from the embarrassment just after penalties and on December 4, 2008 he finally resigned from his position after he had lost five of the last six games and been on a relegation zone with Sunderland. In February 2009, Keane stated that the real reasons for the split were both the differences with an American investor who bought into the club in the fall of 2007 and the lack of support from Quinn.

Ipswich Town (2009-2011)

In April 2009, the English second division club Ipswich Town signed him , where, as in Sunderland, he had the task of leading the club back to the House of Lords. After two wins in the last two games of the season, the beginning of the following season 2009/10 developed into a big false start with 14 games without a win. Only on October 31, 2009 did the first "threesome" follow and although the performance was better, the promotion ranks were a long way off, which was expressed in the 15th place in the final table. In the 2010/11 season, too, things did not go according to plan. Above all, Keane couldn't get his team's goal doldrums and defensive problems under control. After a series of nine games with seven defeats, Keane and Ipswich Town finally went their separate ways in January 2011.

personality

Keane was seen as a driving force and extended arm of coach Alex Ferguson , especially during his time at Manchester United . Within the team, he was the dominant figure and undisputed leader , who rigorously ensured that there was a high level of motivation among the players. His choleric outbursts on and off the square were extremely notorious. Many of his teammates often felt his angry attacks when, in his opinion, they didn't really work on the pitch or during training.

Former United defender Rio Ferdinand recalled an incident with the then young talented Scottish teammate Michael Stewart , whom Keane took to his chest: “After training one day, Michael was taking off his boots and Keane went over to him and said 'I can see you're going to be one of those players who, in a couple years, will be at Accrington Stanley or some non-league team, telling your teammates how you used to share a changing room with guys like Roy Keane and Ruud van Nistelrooy rather than being out there playing with us. "

According to Ferguson, Keane's behavior began to change with his injuries (hip and cruciate ligament surgery) and with age. The already emotional Keane developed more and more into a hothead who lost his temper with increasing frequency. So there were repeated violent arguments within the team between him and some of his teammates.

The originally good relationship between Keane and his trainer Alex Ferguson also began to crack. During the preparation for the 2005/06 season , a heated dispute broke out between the captain and Ferguson at the training camp in Portugal after Keane criticized the condition of the players' accommodation. The climax of the conflict was an interview by Keanes with the club's own television station MUTV ( Manchester United Television ), in which he spoke to some of his teammates, including a. Kieran Richardson , Darren Fletcher , Rio Ferdinand , Alan Smith and Edwin van der Sar , heavily criticized. In the wake of this, Manchester United separated from Keane in November 2005. His argument with Alex Ferguson continues to this day.

Regardless of this, Roy Keane is still considered by fans to be one of the greatest captains in Manchester United history, alongside Éric Cantona and Bryan Robson .

Controversy

During his active career, Keane was often in the public eye due to his physical style and strength of opinion. Two related incidents involving the Norwegian Alf-Inge Haaland attracted particular attention . During a game between Manchester United and Leeds United on September 27, 1997, Keane tore a cruciate ligament in a running duel with Haaland . Haaland leaned over injured Keane, who was lying on the ground, accusing him of faking a foul and an injury to get a penalty. Roy Keane was then injured for nine months. The sequel came on April 21, 2001 in the derby against Manchester City , where Haaland had meanwhile moved. Keane fouled Haaland at knee level five minutes before the end of the game. The English Football Association assessed this as a revenge foul and initially suspended Keane for three games and fined him £ 5,000. In the autobiography published by Keane in August 2002, the player himself testified that from the beginning it was his intention to harm Haaland. The FA subsequently banned Keane with another five-game ban and a £ 150,000 fine.

A "national football crisis" triggered Keane in the run-up to the World Cup finals in 2002 in Japan and South Korea when he criticized the Irish national team and coach Mick McCarthy after qualifying and was immediately sent back home by the latter.

Keane's remarks in November 2000 about Manchester United's home fans also attracted a lot of attention. After a Champions League game against Dynamo Kiev , he had accused the home crowd - in contrast to the accompanying away supporters, whom he referred to as “hardcore fans” - of “taking a few drinks and shrimp sandwiches and not understanding what go ahead on the square ”.

Legendary at the games between Manchester United and Arsenal are the clashes between the two captains Roy Keane and Patrick Vieira , who fought bitter fights on and off the pitch. One of the most famous incidents occurred in February 2005 when there was a scuffle between the two captains in the Highbury players' tunnel. So Keane said to the referee Graham Poll "Tell him [Vieira] to shut his fucking mouth!". Patrick Vieira had previously tackled his opponent Gary Neville , whereupon Keane intervened. The dispute was broadcast live on Sky Sports . In 2013 the journalist Gabriel Clarke published the TV documentary Keane & Vieira - Best of Enemies , in which the two opponents meet and report together on the old enmity.

Title / Awards

with Nottingham Forest

• Full Members Cup : 1992

with Manchester United

• Champions League : 1999
• World Cup : 1999
• English champion : 1994 , 1996 , 1997 , 1999 , 2000 , 2001 , 2003 (7 times)
• FA Cup : 1994 , 1996 , 1999 , 2004 (4 times)
• FA Community Shield : 1993, 1996, 1997, 2003 (4 times)

with Celtic Glasgow

• Scottish Champion : 2006
• Scottish League Cup : 2006

Individual honors

• England's Footballer of the Year : 2000
• England's Footballer of the Month : October 1998, December 1999
• PFA Team of the Year : 1993, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002
• Sir Matt Busby Player of the Year : 1999, 2000
• Member of the English Football Hall of Fame since 2004
• FIFA 100 (List of the best 125 living footballers)

Season statistics

society	league	season	league		Nat. Cup		European Cup		Other		total
			Games	Gates	Games	Gates	Games	Gates	Games	Gates	Games	Gates
Cobh Ramblers	Premier Division	1989/90	23	1	3	1	-	-	3	0	29	2
total			23	1	3	1	-	-	3	0	29	2
Nottingham Forest	First Division	1990/91	35	8th	10	1	-	-	4th	1	49	10
		1991/92	39	8th	4th	0	-	-	13	6th	56	14th
	Premier League	1992/93	40	6th	4th	1	-	-	5	1	49	8th
total			114	22nd	18th	2	-	-	22nd	8th	154	32
Manchester United	Premier League	1993/94	37	5	6th	1	3	2	8th	0	54	8th
		1994/95	25th	2	7th	0	4th	1	1	0	37	3
		1995/96	29	6th	7th	0	2	0	1	0	39	6th
		1996/97	21st	2	3	0	6th	0	3	1	33	3
		1997/98	9	2	-	-	1	0	1	0	11	2
		1998/99	35	2	7th	0	12	3	1	0	55	5
		1999/00	29	5	-	-	12	6th	4th	1	45	12
		2000/01	28	2	2	0	13	1	1	0	44	3
		2001/02	28	3	2	0	12	1	1	0	43	4th
		2002/03	21st	0	3	0	6th	0	2	0	32	0
		2003/04	28	3	5	0	4th	0	1	0	38	3
		2004/05	31	1	4th	1	6th	0	2	0	43	2
		2005/06	5	0	-	-	1	0	-	-	6th	0
total			326	33	46	2	82	14th	26th	2	480	51
Celtic Glasgow	SPL	2005/06	10	1	1	0	-	-	2	0	13	1
total			10	1	1	0	-	-	2	0	13	1
Career total			473	57	68	5	82	14th	53	4th	676	86

Web links

• Roy Keane in the soccerbase.com database
• Roy Keane in the soccerbase.com database
• Profile page at Manchester United

Commons : Roy Keane  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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