Viv Anderson

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Viv Anderson
Personnel
Surname Vivian Alexander Anderson
birthday July 29, 1956
place of birth Nottingham ,  England
size 184 cm
position right full-back
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1974-1984 Nottingham Forest 328 (15)
1984-1987 Arsenal FC 120 0(9)
1987-1991 Manchester United 54 0(3)
1991-1993 Sheffield Wednesday 70 0(8)
1993-1994 Barnsley FC 20 0(3)
1994-1995 Middlesbrough FC 2 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1978 England U-21 1 0(0)
1978-1988 England 30 0(2)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1993-1994 Barnsley FC (player-manager)
1 Only league games are given.

Vivian Alexander "Viv" Anderson , MBE (born July 29, 1956 in Nottingham ) is a former English football player and became known as the first dark-skinned England international .

The career milestone for Anderson as a right full-back was his first appearance on November 29, 1978, when he first played for England against what was then Czechoslovakia at Wembley Stadium . England won this important game 2-1, although Anderson's national team career subsequently turned out to be more than a story of second-best .

Football career

Anderson joined the Nottingham Forest professional team in 1974 and became a regular two years later when Brian Clough took over the sporting direction. He was part of the team that secured promotion to the top English league in 1977 and only a year later won the English championship in the First Division in 1977/78 and the league cup as a promoted team.

When Anderson was appointed to the national team, coach Ron Greenwood emphasized that the nomination was in no way related to political issues and was also not justified by the steadily growing number of dark-skinned players in professional football, but solely as a result of his strong performance in a strong team was seen. As an edgy defender, he was famous for his tackles and was also able to score some crucial goals in his quick attacks on the offensive. Another justification for his nomination was the renewed win of the league cup and, after Malmö FF was defeated in the final, the victory in the European Cup of National Champions in 1978/79 . His first appearance for England took place on November 29, 1978 in the international match against Czechoslovakia at Wembley Stadium .

Anderson was facing tough competition for the position of right-back in the national team at the time. Phil Neal of Liverpool was the end of the 1970s and early 1980s, the first choice for this position and Trevor Cherry , captain of Leeds United , also right-back, has also been nominated regularly. Anderson had to wait patiently for his second appearance, which then followed in June 1979 in the friendly against Sweden . His third appearance, synonymous with his first competitive game, was the qualifier for the European Championship in Italy in 1980 against Bulgaria , which England won 3-0 at Wembley Stadium.

Anderson won with Nottingham Forest at this time his next success when the final of the 1979/80 European Champion Clubs' Cup in Madrid of Hamburger SV was defeated and the title could be defended from the previous year.

After England qualified for the European Championship in Italy, Anderson was named to the squad and played in the last game as a substitute for Neal against Spain . England won this encounter 2-1, but were eliminated from the competition anyway. A short time later, Anderson was used in the first qualifying game for the 1982 World Cup in Spain against Norway , which England won 4-0. After the successful qualification and the fight for the position between Anderson and Neal, neither of the two should be considered a regular player anymore.

With Kevin Keegan injured , Greenwood needed an experienced captain to lead the English team in Spain. The choice fell on the team captain of Ipswich Town , Mick Mills , who normally acted as left defender but moved to the right on this side due to the undisputed Kenny Sansom , so that neither Neal nor Anderson could be used. Neal played against Kuwait in the final group game to give Mills a break after qualifying. This then played again in the second phase of the tournament, which the English team no longer survived. Anderson was not used during this time.

As the heyday of Nottingham Forest came to an end (the next trophy after the 1980 European Cup success didn't come until nine years later), Anderson's international career also seemed to be stagnating. After the World Cup and Greenwood's departure, he was no longer appointed by the new coach Bobby Robson until 1984 and Neal continued to be preferred. England missed qualifying for the European Championship in France in 1984 and Anderson came to his eleventh international match in April 1984 after a two-year absence. In the same year he moved to Arsenal for £ 220,000, hoping to revive his career.

This decision also had a beneficial and Anderson was used in six consecutive games from 1984 to 1985, inclusive of four qualifiers for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico , where he in the first game his first goal for England to 8: 0 victory against Turkey contributed . After that, the young Robson gave Gary Stevens from Everton a chance at right-back. When this could convince Robson, Anderson found himself again as reserve player on the bench. Robson rotated regularly in this position, but Stevens received more stakes overall. After England had qualified for the World Cup and both players had been nominated, Anderson was only a substitute behind Stevens.

Stevens completed the entire tournament in Mexico until he was eliminated in the quarterfinals against an Argentinian team dominated by Diego Maradona . Anderson had again traveled to a World Cup tournament without standing on the soccer field for a minute. This makes Anderson one of the few field players who have been in the squad at several world championships without having been used.

At the end of 1986, when England began to qualify for the European Championship in Germany in 1988 , Anderson scored his second and last national team goal in the game against Yugoslavia .

In 1987 he won a trophy with Arsenal after eight years when they defeated Liverpool 2-1 in the League Cup. In the same year he moved to Manchester United for £ 250,000 and was Alex Ferguson's first purchase , who was there for his first season. Arsenal supporters regretted this departure and were confirmed when George Graham could not find an adequate replacement and tried unsatisfactory stopgap solutions with inexperienced midfielder Michael Thomas and left-footed Nigel Winterburn . Ultimately, the arrival of Lee Dixon solved the problem.

In the meantime, Stevens found his way back to the English national team and Anderson's 30th international match during the Rous Cup against Colombia was also his last, although he was then also in the squad for the European Championship. England lost all three group games, and Stevens was also heavily criticized, but defended his place in the team. Even in his third major tournament in a row, Anderson was without a minute. When Robson looked for younger alternatives to Stevens, this decision ended Anderson's international career.

Anderson completed three seasons for Manchester United, but always struggled with injuries and was then sold to Sheffield Wednesday . There he was promoted to the newly formed Premier League in his first season in Hillsborough . He then reached the final in both the League Cup and the FA Cup in 1993 and lost both to his old club Arsenal London.

He later became a brief coach at Barnsley FC and then part of the coaching staff of his former teammate Bryan Robson at Middlesbrough FC , where he also ended his active football career in 1995. When Robson left the club in 2001, Anderson left and has not returned to football since then.

In 1997, Anderson was voted into the best team of all time for the right-back post in a vote among supporters of Nottingham Forest with a vote of 96 percent.

January 2000, the former English International was awarded the Order of the British Empire by the Queen .

In 2004, Anderson was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame for his influence in English league football and has always been a loyal supporter of the National Football Museum, which opened in 2001 in the Urbis , Manchester .

From 2005 Viv Anderson ran a sports travel agency and also worked as a special ambassador for The Football Association . He also appears frequently as an expert for MUTV , Manchester United's official television station.

Anderson's jersey, which he wore on his national team debut on November 29, 1978 against Czechoslovakia, has been exhibited at the People's History Museum in Manchester since 2011 . It is on loan from Anderson to the museum after he himself kept it in a box in his garage for years.

In 2014 he appeared in the ninth episode of the second season of the BAFTA award- winning CBBC children's series The Dumping Ground in a guest appearance.

Viv Anderson is also an ambassador and supporter of the StreetGames Football Pools Fives Festival , where he coaches the Moss Side Sports Club from Manchester, among others .

His son Charlie, born in 1991, is also active as a football player, but did not make it beyond the amateur field.

successes

  • English champion: 1978 (with Nottingham Forest)
  • European Champion Clubs' Cup: 1979 , 1980 (with Nottingham Forest)
  • European Supercup Winner: 1979 (with Nottingham Forest)
  • English league cup winner: 1978, 1979 (with Nottingham Forest) and 1987 (with Arsenal FC)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ I am proud to be the first black player to represent England ... but why did we agree to go back to Spain? (English), accessed July 5, 2015
  2. ↑ Collection highlights: Viv Anderson's football shirt ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed July 5, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.phm.org.uk
  3. ↑ Viv Anderson donates England shirt , accessed July 5, 2015
  4. ↑ Viv Anderson in the Internet Movie Database , accessed July 5, 2015
  5. ^ It's top secret: Trailblazing footballer Viv Anderson reveals all to Sportsmail , accessed on July 5, 2015
  6. ↑ Charlie Anderson on transfermarkt.de , accessed on July 5, 2015
  7. ↑ Charlie Anderson's player profile at Mossley , accessed on July 5, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Anderson, Viv
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anderson, Vivian Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Nottingham , England, UK