Malky Mackay
Malcolm George " Malky " Mackay ( born February 19, 1972 in Bellshill ) is a Scottish former football player and was until the end of 2013 coach of playing in the English Premier League Welsh club Cardiff City. In 2004, he played five caps for the Scottish national team.
- 2.1 Watford FC
- 2.2 Cardiff City
Playing career
Queen's Park FC and Celtic FC
Malky Mackay began his career with the Scottish third division side FC Queen's Park, and remained in this division until his move to Celtic in the summer of 1993. With Celtic he won the 1997/98 Scottish Cup, but never got beyond the status of a supplementary player.
Norwich City
After he had recently been changed on loan to the English second division club Norwich City, the club signed him on 21 September 1998 on a firm contractual basis. With his new team, he spent the next three years in the middle of the second division before 2001/ 02 due to a sixth place of the jump table succeeded in the Football League First Division in the play-offs. After a Erstrundenerfolg over Wolverhampton Wanderers, Norwich but failed in the final on penalties to Birmingham City. Two seasons later won the 32 -year-old Mackay with his team second division championship and achieved promotion to the Premier League.
On 10 September 2004 Mackay moved to West Ham United and played eighteen league games ( two goals ) in the Football League Championship 2004/05. West Ham went into this season thanks to a 1-0 success in the play-off finals over Preston North End in the first division, Malky Mackay did not come in the last games of the season are used. In August 2005, he undertook the Watford FC. With his new team, he reached the third top-flight promotion to series (3-0 in the play-off final of the Leeds United) 2005/ 06. In the Premier League 2006 /07 he played fourteen league games, with rose, however, as Watford Table in the second division from. After the 2007/ 08 season, he finished his playing career.
Coaching career
Watford FC
After he had been briefly in November 2008 as interim coach at FC Watford active, Malky Mackay was presented on 15 June 2009 as the new head coach of the club. The Football League Championship 2009/10 ended the team under new coach only on the 16th place in the table. A year later, Watford finished the season as the Fourteenth.
Cardiff City
On June 17, 2011 it undertook the League rival Cardiff City. The Welsh club he led in the Football League Championship 2011/12 to sixth place and consequently reached the play-offs, but failed there early to West Ham United. In the League Cup 2011/12 he led his team to the finals, but lost the match on penalties before 89 044 spectators at Wembley against Liverpool FC favorites. Already in December 2011, Mackay was elected coach of the month of November the second division. On 27 December 2013, the club's management of Cardiff City responded to a lasting sporting crisis by Mackay was dismissed until further notice.