Gary Shaw

Gary Robert Shaw ( born January 21, 1961 in Kingshurst ) is a former English footballer. The striker was part of the team of Aston Villa, which was very successful at the beginning of the 1980s, while in 1981 the English Championship and a year later won the European Champions Cup and then the Super Cup. He was identified as one of the greatest talents of his time and in 1981 became later honored as the best young rider in England and one year with the Trofeo Bravo as Europe's best young players before threw him back injury problems and he only each for a short time in the lower British his career professional leagues and was continuing abroad.

Sports career

Aston Villa (1977-1988)

The blond boy was as a youth player in 1977 his way to Aston Villa, and already in the 1978/79 season, the young striker came to the first missions in the first team. At the age of 17 years, coach Ron Saunders joined him in the 0-1 defeat on Matchday against Bristol City and a first turn of the year was followed by the first two appearances in the starting XI. A few days later, Shaw signed on his 18th birthday, the first professional contract and in the season 1979/80 he became the regulars and "Shooting Star" at the "Villans ". With nine goals in 28 league games - including his first in a 3-1 victory on October 20, 1979 against Derby County - he was unerringly most contactors of the club. The next sporting leap took place in the subsequent 1980/81 season, especially what the obligation of Peter Withe had a large share. While withe with his powerful style of play was a scorer of traditional character and with 20 goals scorer at the end, the tricky and extremely responsive Shaw was a good addition. With 18 goals Shaw was also withe in a little after, and both thus represented more than half of the total of 72 goals to win the English championship in 1981.

Shaw was now also a future of hope for the England national team. In his first U-21 international for England it took on February 25, 1981 against Ireland (1-0 ) only two minutes to his Tordebüt. By October 1982, he completed a total of seven U -21 games that ended with winning the European Championship. To this end, he was a key player on the way to the final victory against FC Bayern Munich ( 1-0) and especially his goal in the quarter-final against Dynamo Kiev from an acute angle was worth seeing in the European Champions Cup. In 1982 he was awarded the Trofeo Bravo as Europe's best young player, after he had won the year before the election in England's Footballer of the Year in the category of young professionals. Although Aston Villa in the championship battle could no longer intervene, Shaw scored a further 17 league goals in the season 1982/83 and was so even before withe top scorer of his club. To this end, in January 1983, a victory in the European Super Cup against FC Barcelona, as Shaw with the 1-0 goal in the 80th minute rescued his team after a 0-1 first-leg defeat in the second leg in the extension, then with a 3 ended :0- success.

A severe setback suffered Shaw on September 7, 1983 against Nottingham Forest when he seriously injured his knee. For his athletic career was over practically at the level shown above. He remained still until the end of the season 1987/88 part of the squad from Aston Villa, but denied it in four years, only a total of 17 league games and even completely missing in the season 1984/85. To this end, he had to leave not less than six knee surgeries go through. In February 1988, he acted briefly on loan for the third division side FC Blackpool, but stayed with his six missions without their own goal.

Recent career stations (1988-1992)

At the end of the 1980s, Shaw returned to English football 's back and he closed the detour FC Copenhagen in December 1988 in Austria Austria Klagenfurt. There he played in the 1988/89 season yet the last game of the basic passage of the Division 1 and played in the Middle playoff for the league. Although he had a respectable goal tally to seven goals in nine games, which was only enough for sixth place among eight teams and thus had to dismount the Klagenfurt in the 2nd Division.

Shaw returned again to England in mid-1989 and in February 1990 he took there at Walsall FC another attempt in the third division. There he shot although three goals in nine league games, but was rarely in the starting XI and as Walsall as Table in the Fourth Division relegation, went their separate ways again. Last club stations were in season 1991/92 the Scottish second division side FC Kilmarnock ( for just two league games), then the English third division and later relegated Shrewsbury Town as well as in Hong Kong, named after a Swiss watch company team Ernest Borel before he ended the athletic career.

Title / Awards

European Champions Cup ( 1): 1982
European Supercup ( 1): 1982
English Championship ( 1): 1981
Charity Shield ( 1): 1981
U-21 European Championship ( 1): 1982
England's Footballer of the Year ( 1): 1981 (young professional choice)
Trofeo Bravo ( 1): 1982

Aston Villa F.C. Walsall F.C. Kilmarnock F.C. 1980–81 in English football 1981–82 European Cup Bravo Award Bristol City F.C. Derby County F.C. Nottingham Forest F.C.

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