Alex Miller

Alex Miller ( born July 4, 1949) is a former Scottish footballer who now works as a coach.

Career

Miller began playing football at the Clydebank Strollers. In 1966 he joined the Glasgow Rangers, for whom he first ran aground in the youth team. After he had moved up under coach David White in the first team, he stayed in the next 17 years the traditional club from Glasgow faithful. In the summer of 1970, he won his first title with the team. On the side of William Jardine, Willie Henderson, Colin Stein and Ronnie McKinnon, he was among the team that decided by a goal from Derek Johnstone, the final of the Scottish League Cup in the match against city rivals Celtic Glasgow for themselves. However, under coach William Waddell, he was usually only second choice. So it was that he was not at one of the biggest successes of the club's history, the triumph in the European Cup Winners' Cup 1971/72, on the court. Only after Jock Wallace took over as coach, Miller came back increasingly used. As a regular player since the mid- 1970s, he took on the side of players like John Greig, Tommy McLean and Derek Parlane several titles.

1982 Miller left his hometown club and joined as player-coach for South China AA. Then he returned to himself function returned to Scotland and supervised Greenock Morton. After hanging up his boots on a nail, he was responsible for the FC St. Mirren from 1983. With the club he occupied seats in the middle section of the Premier Division, before he moved on to league rivals Hibernian in 1986. After the club had played several years against relegation, he led the club back into Europe. In 1992 he took his first title as a coach, as in the League Cup final Dunfermline Athletic with a 2-0 success was defeated. In 1994 he moved with the team again in the League Cup final one, but this time sat down his former player station by Glasgow Rangers. After ten years in office, the club from Scotland's capital Miller released in the fall of 1996.

First, Miller accepted an offer from his Scottish compatriot Gordon Strachan to work as an assistant coach at Coventry City. In November 1997, he accepted an offer of fallen into danger of relegation FC Aberdeen and took over as coach. After almost a year, he was fired. 1999 brought Gérard Houllier Miller as head of the scouting department for Liverpool FC. After Rafael Benítez in 2004, his successor as coach of his time English record was, he pushed through an amendment to the scouting system. As a result, Miller moved to the coaching staff of the Spaniard, under whose direction the club won the UEFA Champions League.

Surprisingly left Miller in May 2008 the English Premier League and hired as head coach at the Japanese club JEF United Ichihara Chiba, who was in the J-League in a relegation battle. After he had taken the club with two points from their first eleven league games, he made the final game in the league. After he was present with the team in the following year in the relegation zone, the club released him in July 2009.

After Miller had been a year without commitment, the Swedish club AIK signed him end of June 2010 as the successor of Mikael Stahre and the interim solution Björn Wesström. By the end of the season he led the team to a place in the rear mid-table. Shortly after the end of the season he was on November 10th of the year announced his retirement.

In January 2012, he took over the head coaching job with the Russian second division side FK Sibir Novosibirsk, where he was released in April 2012.