Steve Heighway

Stephen Derek Heighway ( born November 25, 1947 in Dublin ) is a former Irish football player.

The winger won with Liverpool in the 1970s and early 1980s, more than ten national and seven titles in European Cup competitions, he also spent many years as a regular player of the Irish national team. Heighway was not particularly a goal threat ( only 76 goals in 475 appearances for Liverpool and no hits in 34 A- international matches ), but prepared numerous hits of his strike partner.

Heighways a professional soccer player began late. It was discovered only after successful completion of studies in economics at the University of Warwick in a game for the club Skelmersdale United unterklassigen of Liverpool's scouts, who were at this time in a transitional phase after the successes of the 1960s. Heighway remained until the end of the decade, a regular player of the legendary crew of the Reds, with whom he four times the English Championship (1973, 1976, 1977, 1979) and seven other national titles as well as 1973 and 1976 the UEFA Cup in 1977, 1978 and 1981 national Champions Cup, and in 1977 won the European Supercup.

When he barely came into use in the seasons 1979/80 and 1980/81 in Liverpool, he decided to switch kicks the end of his active time for one year in the North American Soccer League for the Minnesota before he became a coach in the youth field.

First worked in the USA, he was appointed in 1989 to head the football school of FC Liverpool, the U-18 team, he three times (1996, 2006, 2007 ) could lead to victory in the FA Youth Cup before he entered retirement in 2007.