Vic Crowe
| Vic Crowe | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| Surname | Victor Herbert Crowe | |
| birthday | January 31, 1932 | |
| place of birth | Abercynon , Wales | |
| date of death | January 21, 2009 | |
| position | wing | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| West Bromwich Albion | ||
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1952-1964 | Aston Villa | 294 (10) |
| 1964-1967 | Peterborough United | 56 (0) |
| 1967-1969 | Atlanta Chiefs | 56 (2) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1958-1963 | Wales | 16 (0) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1969 | Atlanta Chiefs | |
| 1970-1974 | Aston Villa | |
| 1975-1976 | Portland Timbers | |
| 1980-1982 | Portland Timbers | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Victor "Vic" Herbert Crowe (born January 31, 1932 in Abercynon , † January 21, 2009 ) was a Welsh football player and coach.
Athletic career
Born in Wales, Crowe moved to the vicinity of Birmingham as a child . He also took his first steps in football in the West Midlands when he played for Erdington Albion , a junior team from West Bromwich Albion . In 1951, however, he signed his first professional contract with regional rivals Aston Villa . There he quickly became a regular player. However , he missed winning the FA Cup in 1957 through a 2-1 final win against champions Manchester United as well as the revenge in the game for the FA Charity Shield, which was lost with a clear 4-0 defeat .
1958 Crowe rose to the national team and took part with the Welsh national team in the 1958 World Cup finals. While the team in Sweden reached the quarter-finals, in which they were eliminated with a 0-1 defeat against the eventual titleholder Brazil , he remained without a tournament appearance. After the tournament he established himself in the selection as a regular player, until 1963 he played 16 international matches . At club level it was less successful, at the end of the season 1958/59 the club was relegated from the First Division . With Crowe as team captain , however, succeeded as the champion of the Second Division, the immediate promotion. The team trained by Joe Mercer , reorganized after relegation with young players and therefore often referred to as "Mercer's Minors" (German: "Mercers minors"), reached the 1961 finals for the first League Cup . After a 2-0 first leg defeat by Rotherham United , Crowe won a national title as team captain with a 3-0 return win after extra time, in which his teammates Alan O'Neill , Harry Burrows and in extra time Peter McParland had scored the goals.
In 1964, Crowe moved to Peterborough United in the Third Division , before moving across the pond to the Atlanta Chiefs three years later . The football franchise of the Atlanta Braves baseball club initially competed in the National Professional Soccer League , before the championship joined the North American Soccer League the following year . There he ended his active career as a player-coach in 1969.
Shortly after his retirement, Crowe returned to Aston Villa shortly before the end of 1969 as a coach. After relegated to the first division in 1967, the club was now in the relegation battle of the Second Division and had therefore separated from the previous coach Tommy Docherty . However, Crowe could ultimately not avert the first case in the third division in the club's history. As fourth in the table, the team narrowly missed direct promotion, but surprised in the League Cup. Only in the final of the 1971 competition did the third division lose out when Tottenham Hotspur won 2-0 with two late goals. 1972 succeeded as a third division champion to return to the second division, with the team set up a third division record with 70 points. After Crowe had just missed the march into the First Division as third in the table, he failed in the following season due to the increased expectations and was replaced after a 14th place in the table in the summer of 1974 by Ron Saunders .
Then Crowe tried his luck again in North America and took over the Portland Timbers in 1975 . There he moved into the NASL final in his first season, winning the Soccer Bowl was missed with a 2-0 final defeat against the Tampa Bay Rowdies . After missing the play-offs in the following season, Brian Tiler inherited him . In 1980 he returned again and remained in office until the club was dissolved in 1982.
literature
- Gareth Davies; Ian Garland: Who's Who of Welsh International Soccer Players. Bridge Books. 1991, ISBN 1-872424-11-2
Web links
- Vic Crowe on NASLJerseys.com (English)
- Vic Crowe NASL coach Statistics (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Crowe, Vic |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Crowe, Victor Herbert (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Welsh football player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Abercynon , Wales , United Kingdom |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 2009 |