Martin Chivers

Martin Harcourt Chivers (* April 27, 1945 in Southampton ) is a retired English footballer. He graduated from 1971-1973 a total of 24 caps for the English national football team, scoring 13 goals.

Sports career

Chivers began his career according to his youth associations Southampton schoolboy football and CPC sport in the domestic second division Southampton FC, where he rose in the 1965/66 season in the premier league and this came to the attention of Tottenham Hotspur, which in him a successor to Jimmy Greaves saw. Chivers then moved in January 1968 for a then-record transfer fee of £ 125,000 to the White Hart Lane.

The center forward scored in his first game for Spurs against Sheffield Wednesday the first goal. In the further course of the season, Chivers established in the team and shot a total of 23 events during his ten goals. In the following season Chivers scored in the League Cup against Aston Villa first hat-trick and was injured in the same month so hard on the knee that he almost failed an entire year.

In the season 1969/70 Chivers returned to the team and formed with Alan Gilzean an attack formation. This also meant that Jimmy Greaves Tottenham in his career could no longer continue and joined West Ham United. An insert in the England team for Chivers was still his injury suffered in the way, so that he could only have five appearances in the U23 youth team at this time.

There followed a very successful season 1970/71, as Chivers scored 34 goals in 58 official matches, while again scored a hat trick both in the League Cup against Coventry City and in the Texaco Cup against Dunfermline Athletic. At the end of the season he won after a win against Aston Villa League Cup and contributed two goals at this. As part of this good performance Chivers was also appointed to the squad the England team and was played by, among others, in April 1971 on the side of Geoff Hurst the qualifying match for the European Championship in 1972 against Greece, which England won 3-0. Chivers it scored the first goal and over the next seven games for England he met sechsmalig. England had it in their European Championship qualifier in 1972 in the group with Switzerland 3 -, Greece and Malta to do - coach Louis Maurer and the midfield trio Jakob Kuhn, Karl Odermatt and Rolf Blättler. In the six group matches the spearhead of Tottenham scored five goals for the team coached by Alf Ramsey. In the two matches in the quarter-finals in April and May 1972 against the eventual champions Germany, but he did not hit. Chivers was the only English player of all eight European Championship qualifiers graduated in 1972. In seven missions were Gordon Banks, Martin Peters, Alan Ball, Emlyn Hughes and Bobby Moore.

Chivers further increased his goal tally and in the 1971/72 season he scored 44 goals in 64 matches. At the end of the season he scored in the first leg of the UEFA Cup finals at the Wolverhampton Wanderers two goals in a 2-1 victory, and was instrumental in winning the title, the Tottenham celebrated in the second leg after a 1-1 draw. In the following season with 33 goals in Chivers had 61 encounters continue to form strong and helped Tottenham in which regained the League Cup. In the UEFA Cup difference Tottenham, despite eight hits from Chivers in ten games ( including five in the first game against Lyn Oslo), in the semi-final against Liverpool from. Also in the 1973/74 season Chivers was successful with Tottenham in the UEFA Cup, scoring six goals in ten games. However, in the final he defeated the Dutch club Feyenoord Rotterdam with 2:2 and 0:2.

After Gilzean then had to leave the club, even Chivers could not quite match the previous performances. When, with a new coach Terry Neill was installed and had increased to fight Chivers with injuries, he moved to the end of the 1975/76 season after 174 goals in 367 games for Tottenham to Switzerland Servette Geneva. There was honored in the season 1977/78 as the best foreigners in the Swiss league and returned to England, to join Norwich City.

According to other stations Brighton & Hove Albion and Barnet FC Chivers finished then in 1982 his career as a football player.

Achievements

  • UEFA Cup winners: 1972
  • League Cup winners: 1971, 1973
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