John O'Hare
John O'Hare ( * September 24, 1946 in Dumbarton, Scotland ) is a former Scottish footballer, who was known especially as a player in the English first division club Derby County and Nottingham Forest. With Derby, he won the British Championship in 1972 and repeated it in 1978 with Nottingham. It was followed by two more titles in the European Cup of Champions 1978/79 and 1980.
Playing career
John O'Hare began his playing career in 1963 at Sunderland AFC. In his first season he managed to 1963/64, with his team's promotion to the first division. There Sunderland established itself through 15th place in the first year, before the club in 1966 in the league only extremely scarce defended with 19th place. After another year in the lower third of the table John O'Hare joined the club for the first time and played for Derby County in the future.
Derby County
Derby was only second-rate at this time, but had to Brian Clough and Peter Taylor a very ambitious team of trainers. O'Hare managed with his new team in 1968/69 jump to the top flight of English football. In the following years he distinguished himself as a regular in his new club and celebrated 1971/72 its greatest success in the Football League First Division by winning the English Championship. Because the winner is he then played in the European Cup of Champions 1972/73 and failed there first in the semifinals at Juventus.
In 1974 he followed his coach Brian Clough, who had left in the dispute with the Board of Derby County after the 1972/73 season. Clough took over for the season 1974/75 top English club Leeds United and pledged his immediate former player John McGovern and John O'Hare. The new season quickly evolved into a nightmare, because Brian Clough fell out within a few weeks with board, crew, and fans of the new club and has already been released shortly after the beginning of the season. Again O'Hare followed his coach, when he was still in the course of the season took over the coaching job at second division Nottingham Forest.
Nottingham Forest
In the 1976/77 season promotion to the first division and then the feat / win as promoted the English championship in the Football League First Division 1977 78. It was followed by the most successful period in the career O'Hare, because in the two years following the triumph achieved in the European Cup of Champions 1978/79 and 1979 /80. Each handed a 1-0 victory over Malmö FF and Hamburger SV to win the title. In addition, the team still got 1978 and 1979 the English League Cup. His personal best season graduated O'Hare ( 40 games / 9 goals) 1975/76 in the second division. In the three Erstligajahren 1978-1980 he was only sporadically used. The crowning glory of his career was the final in the National Champions Cup in 1980, when he came on in the 67th minute for Gary Mills and thus was able to contribute his part to the triumph. After this very successful season, the now almost 34 -year-old O'Hare decided to end his playing career.
Scottish national football team
John O'Hare denied on April 18, 1970, his first cap for the Scottish national team in an international match in Northern Ireland. He crowned his debut with his first international goal. In subsequent years, followed by twelve more matches, in which he scored four goals. He played in this time together with players such as Billy Bremner, Archie Gemmill, Denis Law, Peter Lorimer and Kenny Dalglish. The selection has been trained in this time of Bobby Brown and Tommy Docherty. His last international game, he completed on May 24, 1972 against the Welsh national football team.
Achievements
As a player
- European Champion Clubs' Cup: 1979, 1980
- UEFA Super Cup winner: 1979
- English Champion: 1972, 1978
- English League Cup Winners: 1978, 1979