Brian McDermott (footballer)
Brian James McDermott ( born April 8, 1961 in Slough ) is a former English footballer and current coach. He is currently the English second division club Leeds United.
Playing career
Brian McDermott made his debut on 10 March 1979 at the age of seventeen for Arsenal in the Football League First Division 1978/79. The club won two months later without the young player is not set up by a 3:2 Manchester United FA Cup 1978/79. For the first time he came regularly used in the 1980/81 season (23 games / 5 goals ) and reached with Arsenal to third place. In the following three seasons, his deployment times reduced again before moving to the second division Oxford United in December 1984. Previously, he had acted from April to October 1984, loan for the Swedish first division club IFK Norrköping and with the newly promoted the play-off final of 1984 against IFK Gothenburg Fotbollsallsvenskan reached ( 1:5 and 0:2 ).
With Oxford, he rose at the end of season 1984/85 as second division champions in the first division and managed the year after relegation in the Football League First Division 1985/86. An even bigger success was winning the title in the League Cup 1985/86 by 3-0 in the final against Queens Park Rangers. Brian McDermott, however, was not in the squad for the final game.
He subsequently worked for the unterklassigen clubs Cardiff City, Exeter City, Yeovil Town, and the South China AA in Hong Kong, he finished after six games for his hometown club Slough Town in 1995 his playing career.
Coaching career
After two coach stations at the unterklassigen clubs Slough Town FC and Woking, 2000 was a member of the coaching staff at FC Reading Brian McDermott in September. After the sacking of Brendan Rodgers on 16 December 2009, he first took over the position as interim coach before he was introduced on 27 January 2010 as the new head coach. McDermott had 2009/10 lying over the club on the fourth to last place in the table of the Football League Championship and his team can not get out of the relegation danger in the first two months. With a dramatic increase in performance in the last third of the season ended the season as Reading Table ninth and Brian McDermott received in March 2010, the award for coach of the month of the second division.
In the Football League Championship 2010/11 his team reached via a fifth place in the standings, the playoffs and moved to a victory over Cardiff City in the finals ( 0-0 and 3-0). There, however, the team failed to 2:4 on trained by McDermott's predecessor Brendan Rodgers Swansea City and thus missing out on promotion to the Premier League. Brian McDermott received this time in the month of April 2011, the award as coach of the month.
The excellent as manager of the month during the months of February and March 2012 Brian McDermott led his team during the 2011/12 season on a direct ascent space and allowed to make just before the end of the season to hope for promotion to the first division.
Despite the achievements in four years at Reading McDermott was released in March 2013 after a run of four defeats in a row.
On April 13, 2013, he took over as coach for the English second division club Leeds United.