Packie Bonner

Patrick Joseph Bonner ( born May 24, 1960 in Burtonport, County Donegal, Republic of Ireland ) is a former Irish football player.

Career development

Patrick Bonner, called Pat or Packie, began his career as a goalkeeper in the Keadue Rovers in his native Ireland. In 1978 he was discovered by the Scottish coaching legend Jock Stein and he got a contract at Celtic. For the Celts, he had a long ( 642 games) and especially extremely successful ( profit of eleven titles) time. In 1995, Bonner for three seasons for FC Kilmarnock and 1999 he played for Reading FC in England. From February 2003 to October 2005, he served as goalkeeper coach under the guidance of Brian Kerr, the Irish national team. Today he works as a football expert for television.

Bonner was also evident as goalkeeper a name. Between 1981 and 1996 he was a total of 80 times in goal for the Boys in Green. He thus witnessed the heyday of the Irish national team by the end of the eighties to the mid nineties. So he was at the European Championships in Germany in 1988, the first participation of Ireland in a major football tournament, the historic 1-0 victory over England there. In the 1990 World Cup became a hero Bonner, as he parried the penalty from Daniel Timofte in the second round against Romania and thus secured his team the next round. In the quarterfinals, the Irish then subject to hosts Italy. In the 1994 World Cup in the United States Bonner and his colleagues succeeded with a 1-0 victory over the Italians revenge. But this time came for the Shamrocks already in the second round against the Netherlands, the off - the game ended 0:2, with Bonner made ​​a few fine figure on the second hit. Bonner still denied after the qualification for the 1996 European Championships, in which the Irish once again failed because of the low countries.

Achievements

  • 5x Scottish champion: 1979, 1981, 1982, 1986, 1988 (always with Celtic Glasgow )
  • 5x Scottish Cup: 1980, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1995 (always with Celtic Glasgow )
  • 1x Scottish League Cup Winners: 1983 ( with Celtic Glasgow )
  • European Football Cup 1988
  • World Cup qualifiers in 1990 and 1994
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