Phil Boersma
Philip " Phil" Boersma (* September 24 1949 in Liverpool ) is a former English footballer. The striker and midfielder was at the beginning of the 1970 - year part of the then very successful Liverpool and won in 1973 the "Double" from the English Championship and UEFA Cup.
Sports career
Liverpool FC (1968-1975)
Boersma, who had already developed at a young age to a physically robust athletes seemed ideally to meet the requirements of a classic striker. On this his preferred position, he combined the high physical presence with speed and technical skills on the ball and Liverpool took him in September 1968 under contract. First, he denied the first season in 1968/69 only in the reserve team before he came to his 20th birthday in the League Cup against Manchester City to its first use in the A- team. The game in which he replaced on the 69th minute Alun Evans, went with 2:3 lost and three days later ended his first league game ( and the first use of the outset ) against West Bromwich Albion without a win with 2:2. In the subsequent weeks was followed by four more mandatory wagers, with him, however, own goal was denied. He then returned to the squad in the reserve team, and collected on March 1970, a little match practice at Leihverein AFC Wrexham, before he returned shortly before the end of the season after Liverpool to win there with the B-team the championship of the Central League.
When he came off the bench on 4 November 1970 at the Fairs Cup again for Evans in the return match at Dinamo Bucharest, he achieved his first goal (final score 1:1, the first leg 3-0) and more than a month later he met in the league against West Ham United ( 2-1 ) for the first time. Thank you a long phase in the starting lineup, he had the end of the 1970/71 season a total of 21 competitive matches contested. However, the yield of three goals was quite lean for a striker, and so it surprised a little that he lost his place again, as with Kevin Keegan for season 1971/72 a new, promising talent on the offensive Liverpool reinforced. Since Keegan began extraordinarily to harmonize well with strike partner John Toshack to Boersma's parole chances reduced significantly. Only when Toshack had to stop due to an injury for much of the 1972/73 season, he returned to the team. He contributed four goals to win the UEFA Cup and was in the final against Borussia Mönchengladbach ( 0:2 Final, first leg 3-0) from the 77th minute for Steve Heighway on the field. For this he won the 1973 British Championship and had it with seven goals from 19 inserts a not inconsiderable proportion.
However, on the good performances he could not tie in the 1973/74 season. He suffered from variations in shape and only three league goals established under this proof. In the FA Cup, he came first in five games to the course, then remained by coach Bill Shankly in the 3-0 final win against Newcastle United disregarded. That he was not even nominated as substitute, made at Boersma for such anger that this would never play for Liverpool. The differences could be overcome and under new manager Bob Paisley he led in the Charity Shield with the goal to make it 1-0 (final score 1:1 victory on penalties ) well into the following season 1974/75 a. He then benefited from a longer lock for Kevin Keegan and was therefore once again well represented in the starting lineup. At the end of the season he had completed 29 Official matches and scored ten goals, including a hat -trick against Tottenham Hotspur and two hits for 11-0 record win against Strømsgodset IF Europe Cup Winners' Cup, but none more from October 1974. In Paisley's long-term planning Boersma played then no longer significant. Keegan and Toshack was the " set " Stammduo in attack and until well into the second half of 1975 stood Boersma only once in the starting lineup. More young players - including David Fairclough - huddled at his position in the first team and so Paisley Boersma made in December 1975 draw for a transfer fee of 72,000 pounds for Erstligakonkurrenten Middlesbrough FC.
From Middlesbrough to Swansea (1975-1979)
" Boros " former coach Jack Charlton saw in Boersma more a midfielder as a striker and in this role denied the newcomer in two years 47 league games. Success came during this period of largely and with three championship gates he was also not duly made . There, however, he met Graeme Souness, the later even moved to FC Liverpool and Boersma maintained a long friendship, which should be far more impact in the following trainer activities.
In the summer of 1977, Boersma hired the second division club Luton Town, where he played well but only one year as shortly afterwards at Swansea City, where his former Liverpool team-mate John Toshack took over the head coach role. In Swansea he contracted such a severe ankle injury that he in 1979 before his 30th birthday ended his professional career.
After the active career
Boersma moved to the coach compartment and stood Swansea City until 1983 as Kotrainer and physiotherapist available. It succeeded the association of the third climb up into the first English league. The next stop was in 1983 as an assistant at Lincoln City FC and in 1986 he followed Souness to its first work as a trainer for the Scottish first division club Glasgow Rangers. As this in Liverpool who succeeded the retiring Kenny Dalglish at the end of the season 1990/91, Boersma counted as his coaching staff as in the 1995/96 season, as Souness in Turkey working for Galatasaray. The constellation was repeated four more times until 2006 when FC Southampton, Benfica, Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United before their separate ways.
During the 2007/ 08 season Boersma worked as Kotrainer for Llangefni Town in the Welsh Premier League, left the shunting at the bottom of the table club but already after a month back in January 2008.
Title / Awards
- UEFA Cup ( 1): 1973
- English Championship ( 1): 1973
- Charity Shield ( 1): 1974