Stuart Pearce

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Stuart Pearce
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Pearce (2016)
Personnel
birthday April 24, 1962
place of birth Hammersmith , London ,  England
size 178 cm
position Left-back
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1979-1983 Wealdstone FC
1983-1985 Coventry City 52 0(4)
1985-1997 Nottingham Forest 401 (63)
1997-1999 Newcastle United 37 0(0)
1999-2001 West Ham United 42 0(2)
2001-2002 Manchester City 38 0(3)
2016 Longford AFC 1 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1987-1999 England 78 0(5)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1996-1997 Nottingham Forest (interim)
2001-2005 Manchester City (assistant coach)
2005-2007 Manchester City
2007-2013 England U-21
2007–2012 England (assistant coach)
2012 → England (interim)
2012 Great Britain (Olympia)
2014-2015 Nottingham Forest
2017-2018 West Ham United (Assistant Coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Stuart Pearce MBE (born April 24, 1962 in Hammersmith , London , England ) is an English football coach and former player who is considered to be one of the best left- backs in the history of the England national team .

Career

Club career

Early in his career, Pearce failed a trial with the Queens Park Rangers and then turned down an offer from Hull City to instead become an electrician and continue football on a non-professional level. However, he then received another surprising offer for a trial training session at the then top club Coventry City , which he also passed. After he had played 241 competitive games for the lower-class Wealdstone FC , his debut followed there in 1983. He quickly established himself as an uncompromising left full-back with a tough but fair style of play. Two years later he was signed by Brian Clough for the Nottingham Forest club .

Pearce played for Nottingham Forst for more than ten years, most of the time as team captain and even briefly as player- coach and interim coach, while the club was looking for a successor to the coaching position. There he won the League Cup twice and the Simod Cup once , a cup competition that was played between 1985 and 1992 as a replacement competition for English clubs that had been collectively excluded from European competitions because of the disaster in the Heysel Stadium in Brussels . He scored a free-kick goal during the FA Cup finals in 1991 , but his club had to admit defeat to Tottenham Hotspur . Because of his tough and unyielding style of play, he was nicknamed "Psycho". This was originally invented by fans of Nottingham Forest. Later he was taken over by the fans of the English national team.

When Nottingham Forest was relegated from the Premier League in the summer of 1997 , Pearce left the club in the direction of Newcastle United and again reached an FA Cup final, in which he was again defeated. He moved again, this time to West Ham United . His last club as a player was Manchester City , who worked for another year as a player and as an assistant coach . In his last game as a professional footballer, he missed a penalty and missed the hundredth competitive goal in his career.

In January 2016, Pearce announced his return as a player at the age of 53. He joined the "UK's worst team", Gloucestershire's Longford AFC.

English international

Pearce made his debut for England in the game against Brazil in 1987 (the 999th player in history). From 1988 on, Pearce was then always a regular in the position of the left full-back in the national team and recorded a total of 78 appearances.

In 1990, in the preliminary round of the 1990 World Cup, a free kick goal by Pearce in the game against the Netherlands was not recognized. England reached the semi-finals against Germany , and Pearce missed there after the game had ended 1-1 after regular time and extra time, in the decisive penalty shootout as one of two shooters. Pearce left the field crying but was never blamed for the defeat as his penalty was parried by Bodo Illgner , unlike Chris Waddle , whose penalty went way over the gate.

Pearce took part in the unsuccessful European Championship in 1992 , in which England was eliminated in the preliminary round without a win. At the end of the qualification for the 1994 World Cup in the USA, which had already been missed at that time, Pearce also experienced a personal football low when he conceded the goal in the game against San Marino , one of the weakest football teams ever, after just 8.3 seconds (England won this game 7-1).

When Terry Venables took over the national team in 1994, Pearce initially lost his regular seat to Graeme Le Saux , but won it back when the Blackburn Rovers defender was out with a broken leg. Pearce held this position until the 1996 European Championship , when he defeated his trauma from the 1990 World Cup with a successfully converted penalty on penalties against Spain , which England also won. His powerful and emotional goal celebration in the midst of the ecstatic crowd at Wembley Stadium became one of the most famous images of the tournament. In the semi-final against Germany, he converted his penalty kick again, but again the “arch rival” went off the field as the winner. After the tournament, Pearce recorded a hilarious commercial for Pizza Hut with the "penalty-takers" Chris Waddle and Gareth Southgate (who awarded the decisive penalty against Germany at the 1996 European Championship) , in which they made fun of their own mishaps.

His career in the English national team seemed to be over with the recovery of Le Saux, but when Kevin Keegan took over the national team, after a 27-month hiatus at the age of 36, he celebrated two games against Luxembourg (6-0) and Poland (0-0) made a brief comeback. Although Pearce was a long-time regular player with a total of 78 appearances in the English national team, he is not the record national player in his position - this honor goes to his predecessor Kenny Sansom with a total of 86 appearances.

Coaching career

After his playing career, Pearce stayed with Manchester City in his role as assistant coach and was hired from March 10, 2005 as the official successor of Keegan. He expressed the desire for a permanent contract, but was initially employed on a trial basis and subject to the coming results. On May 12, 2005, Pearce was appointed permanent coach. In 2006, Pearce was briefly under discussion as a candidate for the post of England coach. In January 2007 he was appointed U-21 national coach by the English federation and took part in the U-21 European Football Championship 2007 in the Netherlands. There he failed with his team only in the semi-finals against the hosts. After the 2006/07 season he was replaced by Sven-Göran Eriksson as coach of Manchester City.

After England failed to qualify for the European Championship in 2008 and had their coach Steve McClaren on leave, Pearce became assistant coach under his successor Fabio Capello . Despite this new position, he remained the coach of the U-21s and qualified for the U-21 European Football Championship in Sweden in 2009 . His young team was able to improve the good result of 2007 and only lost the final game against Germany with 0: 4. Two years later, the U-21 European Football Championship 2011 in Denmark was the third successive participation. However, the tournament was not successful, rather the team failed in the preliminary round. Following this tournament, the association offered Stuart Pearce a new two-year contract. On February 29, 2012, Pearce looked after the senior team on an interim basis for the international match against the Netherlands , after Fabio Capello had resigned the day before.

In 2012 he was in charge of Team GB , a group of mostly English U-23 internationals and some older Welsh players, u. a. Ryan Giggs , a composite team that represented the United Kingdom at the London Olympics but was knocked out in the quarterfinals on penalties against eventual third South Korea.

After the poor performance of the English U-21s at the 2013 European Championships in Israel , the FA announced that it would not renew the contract with Pearce.

On April 3, 2014, Nottingham Forest announced that Stuart Pearce will take over the vacant coaching position at the English second division team on July 1, 2014. After a good start to the season, Forest took the lead on Matchday 4 and remained unbeaten until Matchday 12. After losing to Cardiff City , the club was only able to record three wins in the next sixteen league games and was also eliminated in the 3rd round of the FA Cup 2014/15 against third division AFC Rochdale . A 0-1 home defeat against relegation candidate Millwall FC sealed the end of Pearce after just seven months in office. One day later, the club announced the separation from the manager and presented the replacement just a few hours later on the evening of February 1, 2015 with the former Crystal Palace and Bolton Wanderers manager Dougie Freedman .

From November 2017, Pearce assisted West Ham United head coach David Moyes until the end of the 2017/18 season.

Achievements / titles

literature

  • Stuart Pearce: Psycho. The Autobiography. London 2000.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Stand Up For Wealdstone" (Wealdstone FC)
  2. ↑ "Pearce left red-faced" (BBC Sport)
  3. ↑ Stuart Pearce: England legend signs for Longford AFC , BBC online January 28, 2016
  4. ↑ "England's Players - Page to Pym" (England Football Online)
  5. ↑ New contract for Stuart Pearce (BBC Sport)
  6. ^ Pearce will take temporary charge of England
  7. ↑ England U-21 coach Pearce leaves. Report on sport1.de , June 18, 2013. Accessed June 18, 2013.
  8. ↑ Stuart Pearce: Nottingham Forest confirm Reds legend as boss (BBC Sport)
  9. ↑ Kicker: 12th matchday of the 2014/15 season
  10. ↑ BBC Sport: Dougie Freedman replaces Stuart Pearce at Nottingham Forest (engl.)
  11. ↑ BBC Sport: David Moyes: West Ham manager departs after just six months in charge (engl.)
personal data
SURNAME Pearce, Stuart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Hammersmith , London