Steve Galloway

Steve Galloway ( born February 13, 1963 in Hannover ) is a former English footballer. The striker played most of his career in Sweden, where he then worked as a coach.

Career

Galloway began his career with Sutton United in the Isthmian League. In 1984 he moved to Crystal Palace in the Football League Second Division but here he could not prevail against Andy Gray and Ian Wright.. Therefore, in 1985 he was loaned to Cambridge United before he joined the Maidstone United Football Conference a year later.

In 1987, Galloway to Sweden. With Djurgårdens IF he managed to return to the Allsvenskan, where he was in the 1988 with ten goals this season 's top scorer of the club and reached the Cup final against Malmö FF. Although this was lost, he was honored by the newspaper Expressen as most valuable foreign players. So he made "on the island " again attracted attention and went on loan to FC St. Mirren to Scotland. However, his stay was not crowned with success, so he returned to DIF. In 1990 he moved to Umeå FC, ​​where he regularly one of the top scorers of the club in the next ten years and commuted with him between first and second league. After the end of the second division season 2000 he ended his active career.

After the end of his career, Galloway remained in Umeå. He was coach of the fifth-tier Sandåkerns SK, he coached two seasons in 2002. In 2004 he took over as coach at his longtime Umeå FC. Despite the rise in the Superettan 2005 his commitment was terminated after the season. Since then, he was a member of the coaching staff of the playing in the Damallsvenskan woman football club Umeå IK. In early May 2009, he finished his commitment as an assistant coach. During the summer break in June 2009, he accepted an offer from his former club Djurgårdens IF, replacing Zoran Lukić in collaboration with Andrée Jeglertz to serve as Trainerduo the relegation-threatened first division side until the end of the season.

Galloway operates a shop in Umeå.