Sammy Lee (soccer player)

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Sammy Lee
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Personnel
Surname Samuel Lee
birthday 7th February 1959
place of birth Liverpool ,  England
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
1975-1976 Liverpool FC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1976-1986 Liverpool FC 197 (13)
1986-1987 Queens Park Rangers 30 0(0)
1987-1990 CA Osasuna 28 0(0)
1990 Southampton FC 2 0(0)
1990-1991 Bolton Wanderers 4 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1981-1982 England U-21 6 0(1)
1982-1984 England 14 0(2)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2005-2007 Bolton Wanderers (Kotrainer)
2007 Bolton Wanderers
2008– Liverpool FC (Kotrainer)
1 Only league games are given.

Samuel "Sammy" Lee (* 7. February 1959 in Liverpool ) is a former English football player and current Kotrainer the Premier League -Vereins Everton . The very short former midfielder became known as part of the very successful club Liverpool FC in the early 1980s.

Player career

Lee went through the youth division of Liverpool FC after joining the club in September 1975. He made his debut on April 8, 1978 for the professional team as a substitute for David Johnson after six minutes of play. In the 3-2 win over Leicester City , he scored one goal and thus helped his team to a 3-2 win. The year before he had already been in the extended squad for the semi-finals in the European Cup and although he was not used by Bob Paisley at the time , his use as an option had not been ruled out by the coach at the time.

The breakthrough should come in 1980 and Lee compensated for supposed weaknesses in his very slight stature with a high quality passing game, great joy of running and an above-average shooting power. During the League Cup final against West Ham United in 1981, Lee was at the center of a controversial scene in which the opponent from London felt disadvantaged. Lee had gone on the offensive in an attack and fell to the ground after an enemy tackle . While play had not been interrupted, West Ham's defensive moved forward, placing Lee in an obvious offside position . When Liverpool's left defender Alan Kennedy kicked the immediately recaptured ball into the goal, this goal counted. At the present time there would have been no doubt about the validity of the hit, but the interpretation of the passive offside rule at that time was very vague. West Ham eventually equalized, but Liverpool won 2-1 with Lee in the replay.

In the same year, in the semifinals of the European championship competition against FC Bayern Munich , Lee had the unusual task for him of taking Paul Breitner into man marking. This was a very unusual measure, because the game system at Liverpool FC was usually geared towards the design of their own game and usually left the reaction to the opponent. Lee did his job convincingly and Liverpool moved into the final against Real Madrid , in which Lee was also part of the 1-0 winning team.

Lee won his first English championship in 1982, the same year in which he was able to defend the league cup and also won the European championship as captain with the English U-21 national team through a final victory against Germany. The two national successes were repeated in the two following years, with Liverpool FC winning the fourth triumph in the European Cup in 1984. Lee was used in all players on the way to the final and scored the goal in Anfield in the semi-final first leg against Dinamo Bucharest to win the 1-0.

During this time he also made his first of 14 international matches under the English national coach Bobby Robson and scored on his debut when Greece was beaten 3-0 in a qualifier for the European Championship 1984 on November 17, 1982.

From 1985 onwards, however, Lee's injury problems increased, and he was subsequently unable to continue his previous form. When Jan Mølby also pushed into the regular formation, Liverpool FC should no longer find a use for Lee. In August 1986, he then joined the Queens Park Rangers .

Another engagement followed with the Spanish club CA Osasuna before he returned to England to end his active career with FC Southampton and Bolton Wanderers .

Coaching career

In 1993, Graeme Souness, his former team captain , brought him into his coaching staff at Liverpool FC and his employment was continued after the resignation of Souness under Roy Evans and Gérard Houllier . Under the last-mentioned head coach, Lee was also promoted from his role as coach of the reserve team to the post of Kotrainer .

In 2001 he also took over the post of Kotrainer from Sven-Göran Eriksson in the English national team . Although this was initially only done on a part-time basis, this ultimately led him to leave Liverpool to devote himself fully to work at the FA from July 2004 .

After another year Lee returned to league football and replaced Phil Brown, who had migrated to Derby County , at the Bolton Wanderers as Sam Allardyce's cotrainer . In August 2006 he received the offer to take over the management of the England U-21 national team from Peter Taylor , who had exercised both this coaching activity and that for Crystal Palace . Lee declined the offer to continue to fully devote himself to his job in Bolton.

On April 30, 2007, Lee was promoted to head coach for Bolton Wanderers, succeeding Sam Allardyce . After less than half a year, the Wanderers and Lees parted ways in October 2007 . At this point Bolton was after the ninth game day with only one win on the penultimate place in the table. On May 16, 2008 it was announced that Lee was returning to Liverpool FC as Kotrainer under Rafael Benítez .

successes

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Lee steps up to England role" (BBC News)
  2. ^ "Lee takes full-time FA role" (BBC News)
  3. ^ "Lee leaves England coaching team" (BBC News)
  4. ^ "Lee appointed manager of Bolton" (BBC News)
  5. ↑ Club statement ( Memento of the original from July 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the Bolton Wanderers website @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bwfc.premiumtv.co.uk

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personal data
SURNAME Lee, Sammy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lee, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH 7th February 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Liverpool