Steve Perryman

Steve Perryman
Personnel
Surname	Stephen John Perryman
birthday	December 21, 1951
place of birth	Ealing , London ,  England
position	midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1969-1986	Tottenham Hotspur	655 (31)
1986	Oxford United	17 0(0)
1987-1990	Brentford FC	53 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1972-1975	England U-23	17 0(0)
1982	England	1 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1987-1990	Brentford FC (player-manager)
1990-1993	Watford FC
1993-1994	Tottenham Hotspur (assistant coach)
1994-1995	Start Kristiansand
1996-1998	Shimizu S-Pulse (Assistant Trainer)
1999-2000	Shimizu S-Pulse
2001-2002	Kashiwa Reysol
2003	Exeter City
1 Only league games are given.

Stephen John "Steve" Perryman (born December 21, 1951 in Ealing , London ) is a former English football player and coach . With a total of 854 competitive games, the English footballer of the year 1982 was Tottenham Hotspur's record player between 1969 and 1986 .

Career as a soccer player

As the youngest of three brothers, Steve Perryman grew up in Northolt, showed his football talent in school sports and was used early in the selection of London students. At the age of 15, he joined the youth division of Tottenham Hotspur in July 1967 and was rewarded with his first professional contract in January 1969. Before his 18th birthday, he made his debut in the championship against Sunderland in September of the same year and, as a former student and youth national player, was considered one of the greatest talents in English football.

Perryman quickly developed a good reputation within the team as a defensive midfielder with strengths in tackling and in the game overview and at the age of 20 became the youngest captain in the club's history in recent years. The newcomer, initially underestimated due to his slightly dainty and compact shape, showed himself to be versatile in the further course and was alternatively used on the defensive as a "cleaner" and especially in the right defensive position. In the English U-23 national team he became a record player with 17 appearances and as one of the few talents from his own ranks he found a personal sponsor at the Spurs in coach Bill Nicholson .

By winning the League Cup in 1971 after beating Aston Villa 2-0 in the final at Wembley , Perryman was also honored internationally at a young age a year later. He faced Wolverhampton Wanderers in both finals and won the UEFA Cup after a 2-1 away win and 1-1 in the second leg . As early as 1973, Perryman won his second league cup with Spurs after beating Norwich City 1-0 in the final, and the next UEFA Cup was also within reach at European level a year later, before this one with a total of 4-2 goals in the two final games went to Feyenoord Rotterdam .

In the rest of the 1970s Perryman remained a constant of the Spurs, but notable successes or even title wins failed to materialize. Only after the turn of the decade did the club return to a high phase, in which Perryman played a significant part in his "second spring". After a 3-2 win at Wembley against Manchester City , Perryman won the FA Cup and defended the title just a year later when Glenn Hoddle decided the game after 1-1 goals in the first 90 minutes with a penalty in extra time. As captain, Perryman succeeded his predecessor Danny Blanchflower , who had lifted the trophy twice in a row for the Spurs in 1961 and 1962, also twice in a row. He was at its zenith and the long-lacking appeal to the English national team also came to an end due to the performance shown as a right defender. He was in the provisional squad for the upcoming 1982 World Cup in Spain and made his first international match against Iceland in Reykjavík , but although local journalists later made him England's Footballer of the Year , he was not nominated for the World Cup tournament itself. From then on, there were no further selection games and so the brief appearance against Island Perryman was the only appearance in the English senior team.

He led the Spurs to further successes and after the defeat in the 1982 league cup final against Liverpool (1: 3 after extra time) Perryman was two years later with his team in the UEFA Cup final against RSC Anderlecht . After the first leg, which ended 1-1 in Brussels, Perryman missed the decisive second game due to a suspension - it ended with the same result and the Spurs ultimately won on penalties. Until the end of the 1985/86 season Perryman, who was awarded the MBE medal in 1984, remained loyal to the Spurs, before he was hired as a player-coach at the third division club Brentford after a short stay at Oxford United at the turn of 1985/86 . With his last appearance in the 1989/90 season, he became one of the few English professional players whose career spanned two full decades.

Coaching career

After a short initial phase as a Kotrainer, Perryman rose to the head coach position after a few months and built a youth program, especially at Brentford FC, which he gave priority to short-term success in terms of sustainability. The biggest success was the 1989 move into the FA Cup quarter-finals, where he at Anfield against Liverpool lost. As evidence of the improved youth work, the youngsters of Brentford FC made it to the semi-finals of the FA Youth Cup and when Perryman resigned after the end of the 1989/90 season, he had the impression that he had done everything possible for the club.

The next career step for Perryman followed in December 1990 when he took over Watford FC, bottom of the second division . The initially hopeless task of relegation received an immediate boost when Perryman's new team remained unbeaten in the first eight games and escaped relegation with seven wins in the last ten games. Perryman then largely rebuilt the squad and the newly formed team occupied a secured tenth place in the table at the end of the 1991/92 season. Although little changed in the league mediocrity in the subsequent 1992/93 season, Watford FC under Perryman achieved surprise victories in cup games, such as against the first division leaders Newcastle United . At the end of the season, Perryman resigned as coach of Watford FC to be Kotrainer at his longtime club Tottenham Hotspur alongside Osvaldo Ardiles .

His old club was in great turmoil, mainly due to disputes between ex-coach Terry Venables and club chairman Alan Sugar . Injury problems left the club only one place in the lower half of the table at the end of the 1993/94 season, but the subsequent season seemed promising due to the high-profile commitments of Jürgen Klinsmann and Ilie Dumitrescu . Ardiles and Perryman established an offensive style of play, which, however, was not rewarded with points more and more often after a good start to the season. Already in the middle of the season, Ardiles had to leave and Perryman was also dismissed after a game as head coach against Blackburn Rovers , who thus received a disappointing exit after many years of loyalty to the club.

After a short trip to Norway, where Perryman briefly looked after Start Kristiansand , he followed his former boss Ardiles to Japan to Shimizu S-Pulse in 1996 . Together, the new coaching team won the first trophy in the club's history with the Japanese League Cup in the same year and when Ardiles left the club in 1999 for Croatia Zagreb , Perryman became the new "strong man" in Shimizu . The team under Perryman immediately won the second half of the season, which was divided into two phases, and thus moved into the championship final against local rivals Júbilo Iwata , who was unfortunately lost after two games on penalties. Perryman was then voted coach of the year 1999, but at the same time placed great emphasis on the high contribution of Ardiles to the greatly improved team performance. The following year 2000 was also successful, when Shimizu S-Pulse took third place in the first half of the season and also won the Asian Cup winners' competition (the Asian Super Cup that followed was lost to Al-Hilal from Saudi Arabia ). After a total of five years in Japan, Perryman initially returned to his English homeland.

Perryman helped the relegation-threatened fourth division Exeter City as an advisor to coach Noel Blake and after a successful mission, he was in charge of the Kashiwa Reysol club in the Japanese J. League between 2001 and 2002 . Since 2003 he has been active again for Exeter City, where he holds the position of sports director.

successes

As a player

• UEFA Cup winners: 1972, 1984
• FA Cup winners: 1981, 1982
• English league cup winner: 1971, 1973
• England's Footballer of the Year: 1982 (Journalists' Choice)

As a trainer

• Asian Cup Winners' Cup: 2000
• J.League Coach of the Year: 1999

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Steve Perryman MBE - Playing Profile (page 1)"
2. ↑ "Steve Perryman MBE - Playing Profile (page 2)"
3. ↑ "Steve Perryman MBE - Managerial Profile (page 1)"
4. ↑ "Steve Perryman MBE - Managerial Profile (page 2)"

Web links

• Homepage of Steve Perryman (English)