Colin Cameron (footballer)
Colin Cameron ( born October 23, 1972 in Kirkcaldy ) is a Scottish football player. The central midfielder completed more than 150 in each league games for Raith Rovers, Heart of Midlothian and the Wolverhampton Wanderers and is currently the Scottish second division club FC Cowdenbeath under contract.
Sports career
Only close to the Stark 's Park - the home ground of Raith Rovers - Cameron grew up in the port city ostschottischen Kirkcaldy. He attended the Balwearie High School and joined in December 1988, the Rovers youth system. But before he became a regular player there, he had gained some experience in the Irish club Sligo Rovers in the 1991/92 season. Back in his homeland, he was part of the team that surprisingly after a final victory on penalties against Glasgow Celtic won the Scottish League Cup in season 1994/95. With the help of the associated qualification for the UEFA Cup, he stood there against the eventual winner FC Bayern Munich and graduated from both the outward and the return game. After 152 league games left Cameron in March the club, which shuttled between the first and second Scottish League, towards Edinburgh, where he ran aground in the future for Heart of Midlothian.
The transfer fee for Cameron was £ 400,000; Moreover joined John Millar from the Scottish capital to Raith Rovers. The new addition developed in the "Hearts " sporty further, also came there to more than 150 league games and was promoted to captain. The biggest success in 1998 was winning the Scottish FA Cup, following a 2-1 final win against Glasgow Rangers. For 1.75 million pounds, he then joined in August 2001, the English second division club Wolverhampton Wanderers.
During his time with the " Wolves " because of its use will and single-minded style of play he developed in the Middle field center to a crowd favorite. With 23 goals in 168 league games although he was only moderately goal threat, but achieved some significant results including, as on 4 October 2003, the 1-0 winner against Manchester City, which allowed the club the first Premier League win in its history. In the nearly five years in Wolverhampton, he was almost constantly regulars and substantially responsible for the Erstligaaufstieg in the season 2002/ 03. After re- descent and two unsuccessful start-ups to Cameron's time was inclined at the Wolves to an end, had especially since coach Glenn Hoddle dispensed with his services after the year 2005/ 06 and loaned him in March 2006 for a month to the league rivals Millwall FC. After his return, Cameron denied again five championship matches for Wolverhampton Wanderers. To a new contract, it still did not come and so Cameron was hired in June 2006 on a free transfer at Coventry City.
While fulfilling his one-year contract with the " Sky Blues " Cameron was used during the 2006/07 season in 24 league games, scoring two goals. That it was only a brief interlude, was due to a hamstring injury, which resulted in coach Iain Dowie announced not to want to continue to work with Cameron. At the next station the Milton Keynes Dons were where Cameron to coach Paul Ince, who had been with the " Wolves " an ex- teammate, met. With the " Dons " he won in the 2007 /08 Football League Trophy, both the and the fourth division championship, which entitled them to promotion to the Football League One.
In July 2008, Cameron returned to Scotland and signed for FC Dundee a new contract - and there had with Alex Rae, a former teammate with the Wolves hired as coach. Persistent knee complaints made but that he was put out of action for four months, has since been borrowed from Coach Jocky Scott at the Scottish third division side FC Arbroath and the end of the season 2009/10 the club left again. Next stop was. Before the start of season 2010/11, trained by Jimmy Nicholl FC Cowdenbeath, in which Cameron to its active footballers tasks in parallel took over the function of an assistant coach
Scottish national
Cameron graduated between 1999 and 2004 a total of 28 caps for the Scottish national team. His only two goals get him in the games against Lithuania and San Marino. He made his debut on 28 April 1999 against Germany, which was surprisingly won 1-0. Then he played a series of qualifying matches for Euro 2000, the 2002 World Cup, Euro 2004 and the 2006 World Cup; to participate in a final round but it was never enough.
Achievements
- Scottish FA Cup: 1998
- Scottish League Cup: 1995
- Football League Trophy: 2008