Iain Dowie
Iain Dowie ( born January 9, 1965 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England) is a current football coach, former player, while 59 -fold national team for the Northern Ireland national team. Most recently, he coached Hull City.
Playing career
At the age of 16 years Dowie was rejected by the trial with Southampton FC and he dedicated himself to his studies of mechanical engineering at the University of Hertfordshire, which he finished with a master's degree. He was then hired by the British Aerospace and played football at amateur level in parallel.
While he acted for the Hendon FC, he was spotted by Luton Town, who took him under contract. In the role of a conventional center-forward, he came there to use and, after three years - including a short loan period at FC Fulham - to the club West Ham United.
His next club station should be the Southampton FC, where he played more than 100 games. He then went back to London at Crystal Palace and after the descent of the club one more time to West Ham. At the conclusion of his playing career, he went to the Queens Park Rangers, where he acted as a defender and player-coach in the Reservermannschaft at the end.
Although Dowie in England - however, his father in Belfast - was born, he played 59 times for the Northern Ireland national team, where he succeeded there eleven goals.
Coaching career
Oldham Athletic
After retiring as a player Dowie began as Kotrainer at Oldham Athletic. After the dismissal of the head coach Mick Wadsworth he was promoted to the main responsible role and led the club to the final of the 2002/03 season in the play-off matches for promotion to the First Division second-rate, but where he failed. Financial difficulties lead then to the fact that Oldham had to give key players from the team. After a few months with this team rest Dowie then moved to the club Crystal Palace.
Crystal Palace
At Christmas of 2003, signed a contract Dowie as manager at Crystal Palace and found a team that was on the 19th place of the second-class First Division and was equipped with little self-confidence at this time. Under Dowie leadership of the club still came to 17 wins and closed the season from sixth position, which justified even to participate in the play-offs for promotion to the Premier League. The rise was due to a complete atmospheric change that Dowie achieved mainly through increased discipline of the team. The victory in the semifinals of the qualifying matches against Sunderland on penalties was followed by a brief success against his old club West Ham United, after the fact, the climb was done perfectly in the top English league. There, however, the association was able to keep only one season and grew unhappy after a missed victory on the final day again.
Dowie had but have thus found made a good name as a coach, but initially stayed with his club when he played in the second-rate Football League Championship, despite numerous rumors of a move to another Premier League club. The only concrete offer was from Milan Mandarić - Chairman of Portsmouth FC - before that Simon Jordan as President Palace in November 2005 ultimately refused.
Within the football world Dowie became in 2004 before the start of the Premier League season by his neologism " bouncebackability " ( German: ability to " bounce " back to ) better known to a cult status. The term referred to the resurgence of his club in the previous season and rise to the behavior of the team to respond positively after always early goals conceded. In 2005, the term was added to the dictionary from HarperCollins.
Charlton Athletic
On 22 May 2006, published that Dowie had left after a tacit agreement Crystal Palace. Only eight days later introduced him to Charlton Athletic before as their new coach. This led to great anger at President Palaces Jordan and a claim over a million pound against Dowie. This had originally asked the grounds for the exemption from his contract that he wanted to return to the North of England with his family. Due to the rapid conclusion of the contract at the London club Charlton Athletic to Jordan felt maliciously by Dowie about the real reasons for the desired departure of Palace deceived .. Dowie disagreed with this view and was innocent and was supported by Charlton President Richard Murray, to the willingness to meet Jordan's financial claims court ..
Dowie started with Charlton very weak in the 2006/07 season and took over a longer period, the end of the table. In contrast, although he could lead his club in the League Cup to the quarterfinals, led this failure in the championship series to resign Dowie on November 13, 2006.
Coventry City
February 19, 2007 Dowie was introduced as the new coach of Coventry City. With a series of victories, he introduced himself in his office well, but after a significant loss of form in the team ended the ' Sky Blues ' season only on the 17th place in the table. On 29 August 2007 Dowie was brought to Leicester City in conjunction after the dismissal of Martin Allen with the vacant coaching job, but the club's management of Coventry City denied the commencement of negotiations and at the same time rejecting any advances. Renewed rumors arose when Gary Megson finally on October 24, Leicester left again to train the Bolton Wanderers. Dowie rejected the speculation back again as pure speculation. On 11 February 2008, the club's management of Coventry City Dowie sacked from the current contract, conducting of disagreement as to the team 's development.
Queens Park Rangers
On 14 May 2008 it undertook the Queens Park Rangers as a successor of Luigi De Canio. After only fifteen competitive games but he was already on 24 October 2008, the second division, who finished ninth at this time released.
Hull City
On 17 March 2010 Dowie was presented at the Premier League club Hull City as the new coach. After the descent of Hull City in the Football League Championship in May 2010, he was deprived of his office.