Steve Staunton
Staunton ( 1994)
Stephen "Steve" Staunton ( born January 19, 1969 in Drogheda ) is a former Irish football player and current coach.
Sports career
Staunton played as a teenager at Dundalk FC and at the regional level in selected teams. Kenny Dalglish, Scottish coach of FC Liverpool, discovered him there and took Staunton in 1986 to England. The inexperienced young players from Ireland was trained at the Reds further and temporarily borrowed from the 1987/88 season to the second division Bradford City, where he had his first league bets. In September 1988, Staunton made his debut in the First Division with a 1-1 against Tottenham at left-back after the captain Alan Hansen had been canceled due to an injury and the left-back Gary Ablett had to take over at center-back its position. Staunton remained for the rest of the season regulars. By the end of his first season he was appointed Jack Charlton in the Irish national team, with whom he at the Football World Cup in Italy in 1990 as the first Irish team ever attended one year later. The 21 -year-old Staunton took part in all the games of the tournament; the team was eliminated in the quarter- final against Italy.
After the new Liverpool manager Graeme Souness Staunton rarely started in the 1990/1991 season, he moved to Aston Villa. With Villa he won the 1994 English League Cup and took in the same year at the Football World Cup 1994 in the USA part. Once again, he was at all the games here in Ireland; in the last sixteen different from Ireland to the Netherlands.
After Ireland failed to qualify for the next tournament in 1996 and 1998, Staunton moved to the 1998 World Cup back to Liverpool. Meanwhile, he was the captain of the Irish national team and was loaned out after two years at Anfield at Crystal Palace; from there he moved again in 2000 to Aston Villa.
After an eight- year wait for Ireland, the team with Staunton qualified for the World Cup 2002. The team under new coach Mick McCarthy was solved by Germany in a preliminary group. The 1-1 against Germany, he made his 100th game for Ireland and ended in a penalty shootout after From the second round match against Spain after 102 caps (7 goals) his international career. He was thus temporarily the most capped player in Ireland before succeeded to him in March 2010 Shay Given and Kevin Kilbane.
After playing now since 2003 at Coventry City, he moved to the 2005/06 season for Walsall FC, where he ended his active career.
In January 2006 he took the post of team manager of the Irish national team and managed the team in qualifying for the European Championship 2008. However, Ireland could not prevail against Germany and the Czech Republic. In the penultimate group game, the Irish arrived in Dublin to Cyprus only a 1:1; However, a victory would not have been enough because at the same time Germany against the Czech Republic lost. Six days later, on 23 October 2007, ended the Irish Association and Staunton their cooperation " by mutual agreement ".
Achievements
- English Champion: 1989/90
- FA Cup Winners: 1989
- English League Cup Winners (2): 1994, 1996
- Charity Shield Winners (2): 1988, 1990 ** split title