Russell Latapy
| Russell Latapy | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| Surname | Russell Nigel Latapy | |
| birthday | 2nd August 1968 | |
| place of birth | Port of Spain , Trinidad and Tobago | |
| size | 170 cm | |
| position | midfield | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1987-1988 | United Petrotrin FC | |
| 1989-1990 | Hazard United | |
| 1990-1994 | Académica de Coimbra | 127 (32) |
| 1994-1996 | FC Porto | 40 (6) |
| 1996-1998 | Boavista Porto | 40 (1) |
| 1998-2001 | Hibernian Edinburgh | 84 (22) |
| 2001-2003 | Glasgow Rangers | 23 (6) |
| 2003 | Dundee United | 7 (0) |
| 2003-2009 | FC Falkirk | 166 (24) |
| 2009 | Caledonia AIA | 6 (2) |
| 2010-2011 | Edinburgh City | |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1988-2009 | Trinidad and Tobago | 80 (29) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 2006-2009 | FC Falkirk (Assistant) | |
| 2009 | Trinidad and Tobago (Assistant) | |
| 2009-2011 | Trinidad and Tobago | |
| 2011-2014 | Boavista Porto (Assistant) | |
| 2014-2015 | Inverness CT (Assistant) | |
| 2017-2019 | Trinidad & Tobago U-15 | |
| 2019– | Barbados | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Russell Nigel Latapy (born August 2, 1968 in Port of Spain ) is a Trinidadian football coach and former player. As a player, through his experience and his understanding of the game as a playmaker, he was an important pillar of both the national team of his home country and FC Falkirk from the Scottish Premier League .
Career
Club career
When Latapy began his footballing career in Trinidad in the 1980s, he shared a flat with Dwight Yorke , the other great Trinidad footballer of his generation . He has been friends with Yorke ever since. After a club station in Jamaica , he moved to Europe in the first Portuguese league in the early 1990s , first to Académica Coimbra and then successively to the two big clubs from Porto , FC and Boavista . He played 80 times in the Portuguese league for the two Porto clubs, scoring seven goals, becoming the first player from his home country to play in the UEFA Champions League and winning a total of four national titles: two championships (1995 and 1996 with FC Porto) and 1997 victories in the Cup and Supercup (with Boavista). In the summer of 1998 he then moved to Scotland for the Premier League there , where he has since appeared over 200 times and scored 43 goals. His stations were Hibernian, Glasgow Rangers, Dundee United and FC Falkirk.
National team
Latapy made his debut at the age of 20 in the fall of 1988 in a World Cup qualifier against Honduras at the Soca Warriors , but before that he had already played in the various youth teams in his home country. In qualifying for the 1990 World Cup in Italy, he was immediately one of the top performers in Trinidad's selection, which narrowly failed. His further career in the selection of the Caribbean state is characterized by alternating periods of abstinence as a regular player, so he did not make any appearances in 1990, 1993, 1997 and 1998 and only one in 1994, 1995 and 1999, a total of only 25 international appearances in this decade . But Latapy proved to be extremely dangerous, he scored 23 goals in these 25 games. After failing to qualify for the 2002 World Cup, he resigned from the national team in 2001 after 27 goals in 57 appearances. In autumn 2005 Dwight Yorke and national coach Leo Beenhakker were able to persuade him to qualify for the World Cup finals with the Soca Warriors for the last time at the age of 37. Despite his age, Lapaty was able to fill the role of midfield playmaker again and played a significant part in qualifying his home country for the 2006 World Cup in Germany. Lapaty was appointed as the tournament's oldest outfield player in his home country's finals for the 2006 World Cup.
As a trainer
After coaching jobs as assistant coach at Falkirk FC and Trinidad-Tobago , he took over the head coach job of his home country as national coach of TTO in 2009. In 2011 he resigned as national coach for Trinidad and was without a job for two years before becoming assistant coach in Portugal at Boavista Porto in 2013 . After John Hughes, who became head coach at Inverness Caledonian Thistle in 2013 , Latapy took over the job as assistant coach at his side. John Hughes , becoming his assistant at Inverness Caledonian Thistle. After Inverness won the Scottish Cup in the 2014/2015 season, Latapy resigned. In February 2017, Latapy took over the vacant head coach of the U-15 national team of Trinidad & Tobago. He has been coaching the Barbados national team since 2019 .
Web links
- Dossier about Latapy on Soccawarriors.net with extensive press review (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ The rise, fall & future of a T&T football legend . Soca Warriors. December 8, 2010. Retrieved October 1, 2014.
- ↑ Record.cl.pt: Latapy: "Quero conquistar espaço como técnico" ( Memento from July 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ ICTFC.com: Latapy Arrives ( Memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Russell Latapy . Inverness Caledonian Thistle FC. July 9, 2015. Retrieved July 9, 2015.
- ↑ National Under-15 head coach Russell Latapy witnessed a few pleasing points in his national boy's U-15 team's first match since they commenced training just over two months ago . Inverness Caledonian Thistle FC. July 9, 2015. Retrieved July 9, 2015.
- ↑ Jamaica-Gleaner.com: T&T Football Icon Latapy Lands Top Barbados Job. Retrieved August 16, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Latapy, Russell |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Latapy, Russell Nigel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soccer player and coach from Trinidad and Tobago |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd August 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Port of Spain , Trinidad and Tobago |