Terry Venables

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Terry Venables
Personnel
Surname Terence Frederick Venables
birthday January 6, 1943
place of birth Dagenham , London ,  England
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
1958-1960 Chelsea FC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1960-1966 Chelsea FC 202 (26)
1966-1969 Tottenham Hotspur 115 (19)
1969-1974 Queens Park Rangers 179 (19)
1974-1976 Crystal Palace 14 0(0)
1976 St Patrick's Athletic 2 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1964 England 2 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1976-1980 Crystal Palace
1980-1984 Queens Park Rangers
1984-1987 FC Barcelona
1987-1991 Tottenham Hotspur
1994-1996 England
1997-1998 Australia
1998-1999 Crystal Palace
2000-2001 Middlesbrough FC (assistant coach)
2002-2003 Leeds United
2006-2007 England (assistant coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Terence "Terry" Frederick Venables (born January 6, 1943 in Dagenham / Essex , England ) is an English football coach . From 1994 to 1996 he was the coach of the English national team .

Player career

Venables began his career as a professional footballer in 1960 and joined Chelsea in the process. There he completed more than 200 games before moving to Tottenham Hotspur in 1966 . Three years later he moved to the Queens Park Rangers , before he ended his football career a little later after his transfer to Crystal Palace in 1974 . In the English national team Venables was used in two games.

Coaching career

After the end of his career, Venables took over the coaching position at Crystal Palace and led the club from the Third Division with two promotions in three seasons in 1979 to the First Division . He was able to earn a midfield position with the team in the first season and moved to the Queens Park Rangers in 1980, with whom he was also able to rise to the elite class in 1983 and achieved a surprisingly good fifth place in the immediately following season. In addition, he led the Rangers in 1982 as a second division team in the final of the FA Cup , which he lost to Tottenham Hotspur in the replay.

His successes as a coach even attracted top European clubs and Venables moved to Spanish club FC Barcelona in 1984 , where he was nicknamed El Tel . During his three seasons in Catalonia he won a Spanish championship and a league cup, but lost in the final of the European Cup , the first after the disaster at the Heysel Stadium , on penalties against Steaua Bucharest . In September 1987, Venables was sacked after a second straight year without winning the championship.

The following month he returned to England to look after Tottenham Hotspur. In north London he came to mixed success, where he usually only occupy a midfield position with the club in the championship, but was able to win the FA Cup in 1991. After a dispute with club owner Alan Sugar , who insisted on a right to decide in sporting matters, Venables was sacked in 1993, the evening before the FA Cup semi-finals against local rivals Arsenal . In the period that followed, Venables began to expand its broad business activities to various levels.

After the crisis in the England national team had come to a head in 1993 under Graham Taylor , the voices increased that Venables was a suitable candidate with enough charisma to give the team new strength. At the same time, however, Venables was criticized for some of its businesses, so that the FA, after a fruitless search for alternatives, only appointed Venables as a team boss and not as an English coach. He then celebrated his greatest success during the European Championship in 1996 in his own country. There he managed to lead the team to a 4-1 win against the Netherlands , one of the world's best teams at the time. Only in the semi-finals, in which the team lost to Germany on penalties, England was eliminated.

Shortly thereafter, however, Venables was fired due to his business activities and later became first advisor and then president of Portsmouth FC . He left the club again after disagreements both on and off the field and coached the Australian national team during this time . He managed to win within the Oceania Federation and a second place in the Confederations Cup in 1997 after victories against Mexico and Uruguay and a draw against Brazil. However, Australia missed qualifying for the World Cup . In the play-offs against Iran , a 1-1 draw was achieved in front of 128,000 spectators in Tehran. In the second leg in front of almost 100,000 spectators at the Melbourne Cricket Ground , Australia were 2-0 ahead shortly after half-time, but had to concede two goals a quarter of an hour before the end and were therefore eliminated due to the fewer away goals scored.

In 1998, Venables was sentenced to a seven-year ban under Section 8 of the Company Directors Disqualification Act of 1986 and was not allowed to hold a representative office in a company during that time. At the same time, he briefly returned to Crystal Palace, and then stayed away from football for a long time.

The relegation-threatened Middlesbrough FC signed Venables in 2000 as the kotrainer of the heavily criticized Bryan Robson . Relegation could be ensured with a 14th place in the final table. Since Venables stay in Teesside could not be reconciled with his business and media activities, he left the club in 2001. Subsequently, Venables joined Leeds United as a coach in July 2002 . By December of the same year, the club was eliminated from the League Cup and the UEFA Cup and was in the middle of the table. After Leeds found itself in a downward spiral of sporting decline and a lack of revenue in an expensive squad due to financial problems, many valuable players left the club. Due to this development, Venables could not prevent the decline and resigned in March 2003.

Subsequently, Venables was acted as technical director of Newcastle United Jets , which should play in the Australian A-League starting in 2005 . Venables declined the engagement due to his business obligations in the UK .

Until November 22, 2007 he was assistant coach of the English national team under Steve McClaren . Together with Steve McClaren, he was dismissed due to the missed qualification for the European Football Championship in 2008.

On March 28, 2012 Venables became technical advisor at the ninth division FC Wembley . His engagement was made possible by a sponsor. He should come as far as possible with the club at the next FA Cup . However, Wembley failed in the qualifying round at Uxbridge FC.

Private

Venables met his first wife, Christine MCCann, when he was 16 years old. They were married on April 4, 1966 in St Cedd's Church, London. They have daughters Nancy and Tracey. After the couple had already grown apart, the marriage practically came to an end with his move to FC Barcelona.

At the time, Venables had already fallen in love with Yvette S. Bazire, who had grown up like himself in the East End of London, whom he had met in his father's pub and who soon joined him in Barcelona in his apartment on the Autovía, which overlooked Avenida Diagonal A-7 not far from Camp Nou took off. In December 1991, the then 42-year-old Yvette and Venables were civilly married. Since 2015 they have been running the boutique hotel La Escondida ("The Hidden Woman") in the Font Roja Natural Park in the hinterland of Alicante .

other activities

  • In 2002, Venables and the band Rider recorded a single called England Crazy for the World Cup and came in at number 45 on the English charts.
  • In addition to his widespread business interests, Venables co-wrote four Gordon Williams novels and co-wrote the Hazell detective series on ITV .
  • Venables is often active as a football expert for the ITV broadcaster.
  • In the run-up to the 2010 World Cup , Venables recorded a version of the Elvis song If I Can Dream with orchestra as a charity single, which reached number 23 in the UK charts.

Sporting successes

literature

Novels

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ focus.de: Ninth division team brings ex-national coach Venables
  2. ^ Song about more than just footie , The Sun, June 7, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Venables, Terry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Venables, Terence Frederick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Dagenham