Howard Kendall

Howard Kendall ( May 22nd, 1946 in Ryton ) is a former English footballer and later coach. He won the English championship in both functions with Everton FC, and was there in 1985 coach of the team that won the European Cup Winners' Cup.

Playing career

Kendall joined in 1961 the junior section of Preston North End at. There he wrote in May 1963 his first professional contract and was already about a year later in the FA Cup final against West Ham United at its premiere. His unmediated debut when he takes the suspended Ian Davidson represented on the left half position also meant that he was the youngest player to date in an FA Cup final in the entire 20th century.

The trained defender joined in March 1967 for a transfer fee in the amount of 80,000 pounds sterling to Everton and trained there from now on with Alan Ball and Colin Harvey, a famous midfielder series as "Holy Trinity " ( Holy Trinity) was titled. With the help of this trio of Everton won the English championship in season 1969/70. In the subsequent three years, Kendall led the team as captain. In his only participation in the European Champions Cup in season 1970/71 he moved here after a win against Borussia Mönchengladbach before in the round of 16 teams to the quarterfinals. Here, Kendall had to remove with a curious long-range goal against Wolfgang Kleff, who was busy, thrown onto the pitch toilet rolls that achieves 1:1 in Moenchengladbach. Since the return match at Goodison Park ended 1-1, the game had to be decided in a penalty shootout in which Kendall converted his penalty and after a miss by Ludwig Müller in Everton was one lucky winner. Less Fortune followed in the quarterfinals to eventual finalists Panathinaikos Athens. After a 1-1 draw in the home game, the " Toffees " in the return game could achieve no results despite a corner ratio of 19:0 and 0:0 on the away goals rule meant the end for the English champions.

In February 1974 Kendall hired at Birmingham City. After another three and a half years, he moved to Stoke City, where in February 1978 he held the position of a player's coach and was instrumental in the Erstligaaufstieg of the association. Although Kendall was considered one of the best English footballers of his time and in 1964 the English national youth team led to victory in the "small world cup finals " as captain, he never came despite some games in junior selections in the English national team to the course.

Coaching career

In June 1979, Kendall moved on to Blackburn Rovers, also served this club as player-coach and led the then third division in the subprime Second Division. The direct walkover in the top English league in the following season 1980/81 suggested only just failed on goal difference.

He returned in May 1981 back to Everton and completed another four games before he ended his active career as a player and coach ascended into the compartment. Notable successes were at the " Toffees " in first instance and in January 1984 it already looked after, as could be dismissed Kendall. By reaching the League Cup final and then even the FA Cup win over Watford but he laid the foundation for a highly successful era of the club. The 1984/85 season then developed into the most successful season of Everton FC in its recent history. Under the coach Kendall the "Blues " won superior to the English championship, also reached a second time the FA Cup final and won the European Cup Winners' Cup European trophy to date only Everton. This was followed in the season 1985/86 two more second places. Here, the Toffees were defeated in both the championship and the FA Cup final to local rivals Liverpool. In reverse order Kendall won with the Toffees in the 1986/87 season his second English championship, distanced the " Reds " by nine points in common manifested both Liverpool clubs so that their dominance in English football at that time.

As the English football clubs were denied access to the European competitions due to the Heysel disaster, changed the ambitious Kendall 1987 in the direction of Spain to the Basque club Athletic Bilbao. There, however, he could not celebrate significant success and finished with the team, the only Basque players was traditional, in the years 1988 and 1989, only the fourth and seventh place. Nevertheless, he suggested during this time from a lucrative offer from Newcastle United, before he was eventually dismissed in November 1989 after a poor start to the season in Bilbao. Instead of Newcastle United supervised Kendall after his return to England already one month later Manchester City, before it then led him back to a second term to Everton in November 1990. However, the successful times did not return to the former champion trainer and disputes with the club's management in terms of player transfer policy made ​​for Kendall's second farewell in December 1993.

The next coach station led Kendall to Greece to Skoda Xanthi, where he spent a brief and unsuccessful time. In January 1995 he returned to England and looked after there second division Notts County, who was in acute danger of relegation. Under Kendall's leadership, the performances of the team stabilized significantly and the association succeeded in the end of March the jump out of the relegation zone. Again, however, ensured disagreements with the club's management for a premature end and Kendall was released in April 1995 - the " Magpies " rose at the end of the season, at last becoming from. Again, as " Firefighter " he worked then from December 1995 Sheffield United, the club saved from relegation to the third division and led him in 1997 play-off final, where he lost to Crystal Palace.

Kendall joined in August 1997 for a third time at Everton, but also in his second return, the coach time ended after only one year and the descent was only on the final day prevented scarce. His last stop was to date the Greek club Ethnikos Piraeus. It lasted only four months, and as Table of the club released him in March 1999. According to information from Kendall had also in the subsequent period offers of English football clubs, which he rejected all of them. However, the view expressed by him desire to take over the Irish national team, was denied him his hand.

Achievements

As a player

  • English Champion: 1970

As coach

  • European Cup Winners Cup Winners: 1985
  • English Champion: 1985, 1987
  • FA Cup winner: 1984
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