Trevor Brooking

Trevor Brooking
Trevor Brooking in 2005
Personnel
Surname	Sir Trevor David Brooking
birthday	October 2, 1948
place of birth	Barking ,  England
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
	West Ham United
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1967-1984	West Ham United	528 (88)
1985	Cork City	2 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1974-1982	England	47 0(5)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2003	West Ham United
1 Only league games are given.

Sir Trevor David Brooking (born October 2, 1948 in Barking ) is a former English football player and coach . Between 1974 and 1982 he made 47 international matches for the English national football team and between 1967 and 1984 he was active for West Ham United for many years .

Athletic career

Brooking was born the son of a police officer in Barking, a borough in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham . Unusually for an aspiring player of his talent, Brooking attached great importance to the continuous development of his education and received academic awards in the form of eleven O-Levels and two A-Levels .

When Brooking was accepted as a junior player at West Ham United in 1965, he then continued to pursue his training in parallel. Two years later Brooking, who was equally strong with both feet, made his debut in a 3: 3 against Burnley FC and established himself as a midfielder from then on . His style of play was characterized by a high degree of fairness and was expressed in only a small number of foul games. His very technical and strategically oriented style, which was accompanied by a relatively low willingness to run (as could also be observed with Günter Netzer ), shared the public perception in criticism of his alleged lack of willingness to fight and recognition of footballing skills.

After his first appearance for the English national football team against Portugal on April 3, 1974 , he won his first title with West Ham with the FA Cup just a year later , when Fulham FC were defeated 2-0 in the final. In the following years, the positive club trend could not be confirmed, and Brooking always played with West Ham to stay up.

When West Ham was relegated from the English first division in 1978, Brooking remained loyal to the club and after the surprising 1-0 final victory in the FA Cup against Arsenal , in which Brooking scored the decisive goal, the team also returned in 1981 back to the top division. Previously, Brooking came to his first appearance in a major tournament during the 1980 European Championship in Italy .

In the remaining years of Brookings' active career, West Ham re-established itself in the first division. After he only got one more and last tournament appearance at the 1982 World Cup in Spain due to an injury, he ended his active career as a soccer player two years later.

Brooking then pursued two professional pillars. On the one hand, he was hired by the BBC as an expert on radio and television broadcasts (including: Match of the day ). In addition, Brooking started a career as a sports official. Between 1987 and 1997 he was chairman of the Eastern Region Council for Sport and Recreation and from 1999 to 2002 he headed the organization Sport England .

When the coach Glenn Roeder, who was then active at West Ham, fell ill with a brain tumor in April 2003 , Brooking took over the sporting management as an interim trainer. Despite a high score, he could not ensure relegation in the first division, but returned after the first three games of the following season as a temporary coach after Roeder had to leave the club for good. After a successful month he was replaced by Alan Pardew . Brooking then took over as head of football development in the FA from December 2003 .

Brooking was awarded the Order of the British Empire as a CBE and was knighted in 2004 . He lives in Essex today, as he did when he was an active footballer .

successes

• FA Cup winners: 1975, 1980

Web links

• Statistics from Sir Trevor Brooking at West Ham United
• Trevor Brooking in the database of FIFA (English)
• Trevor Brooking - National-Football-Teams.com