Tony Currie (soccer player)

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Tony Currie
Personnel
Surname Anthony William Currie
birthday January 1, 1950
place of birth Edgware ,  England
position midfield player
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1967 Watford FC 18 0(9)
1968-1976 Sheffield United 313 (54)
1976-1979 Leeds United 102 (11)
1979-1982 Queens Park Rangers 81 0(5)
1983-1984 Southend United 0 0(0)
1984 Torquay United 14 0(1)
1984 Stockport County 0 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1972-1979 England 17 0(3)
1 Only league games are given.

Anthony "Tony" William Currie (born January 1, 1950 in Edgware ) is a former English national football player on the position of midfielder , who was best known as a player from Sheffield United .

Career

society

1967: Watford

Currie played at the junior level for Queens Park Rangers , Chelsea and Watford before making his first team debut in 1967. He made 18 third division games for Watford, scoring nine goals.

1968 to 1976: Sheffield United

On February 1, 1968, Sheffield signed Currie for £ 26,500. This immediately paid off when he scored a goal in his first game in the Blades jersey against Tottenham . In Sheffield, Currie, known by fans as "TK", quickly became a crowd-pleaser and stayed there for eight years, including being named captain for the last two years. In total, he scored 54 goals in 313 league games for United.

1976 to 1979: Leeds United

In the summer of 1976 Currie moved to Leeds within Yorkshire for £ 250,000 and played his first game for the Whites in a 2-2 draw against West Bromwich Albion . In his second and third seasons, Currie helped each to reach the League Cup semi-finals and in 1978/79 also in fifth place in the league, which Leeds qualified for the UEFA Cup .

Although he also rose to the public's favorite in Leeds, he left the club in 1979 after some disagreement with coach Jimmy Adamson and 102 games (11 goals).

1979 to 1982: Queens Park Rangers

At QPR he was named captain and led the club to the FA Cup final in 1982 , but lost there after a replay with 0-1 against Tottenham . Due to an injury, Currie had to end his career in the higher leagues after 81 games with five goals.

1982 to 1988: Various clubs

Currie only went to Canada for two months, playing for the Toronto Nationals , before moving back to England to play for Southend United. However, since he was not used, he moved to Torquay United in the winter of 1984 , where he completed 16 games and at least scored one more time. He then played with Tranmere Rovers , Dunstable Town , Hendon and Goole Town .

England

Currie was appointed to the national team for the first time as a player from Sheffield United in a 1-0 home defeat against Northern Ireland in 1972 by then national coach Alf Ramsey . In 1973 he played five games, a. a. in a 7-0 victory over Austria , in which he scored his first international goal, and in a game against Poland, which England clearly dominated, but could not qualify for the 1974 World Cup in Germany due to a 1-1 draw .

In 1975 he played another game against Switzerland (2-1), but did not return to international honors until 1978 and 1979 under Ron Greenwood and played ten more games during these two years, one goal each in victories against Wales and Hungary scored. Currie played his last game for England on June 10, 1979 in a 0-0 draw against Sweden .

Overall, Currie was able to win ten games and only lost three of his 17 international matches, not a single one of the last eleven.

After football

Since 1988 Tony Currie worked for his former club Sheffield United as a football coordinator.

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personal data
SURNAME Currie, Tony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Currie, Anthony William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Edgware