Terry Cooper (footballer born 1944)
Terence " Terry " Cooper ( born July 12 1944 in Brotherton ) is a former English football player and coach. The technical savvy left defender was in the 1960s and 1970s in the team of Leeds United and completed between 1969 and 1974 20 caps for the England football team.
Sports career
Cooper was in his youth not in the conventional method, ie, a sight system, discovered. He turned himself in at Leeds United before to ask for there to a trial. The result was so satisfactory for the club that Cooper was offered a junior player contract.
After he had previously resided on the position of the left winger, he was trained by Don Revie for his commitment at the age of 17 years as a defensive player. Over the first six years it developed gradually and in 1966 under Revie team regular. Cooper established himself henceforth and supported due to its ausprägten fitness through offensive actions the winger Eddie Gray.
In 1968, Cooper won with Leeds League Cup and scored in the 1-0 victory against Arsenal at Wembley the decisive goal after he scored a weakly repelled by the defense arsenal corner at the front post into the goal, with Arsenal complaining, that the own goalkeeper by Jack Charlton was fouled.
The following year, in 1969 Leeds was able to win with Cooper the English league, where Revie gave up a double cast on the left back position and in the event of injury or barrier Coopers resorted to Paul Madeley, which was a clear sign of the regulars property Coopers. In the same season, Cooper made his debut under Alf Ramsey in the England team and led to a 5-0 victory against France with a good performance one.
Leeds fought in 1970 for the title win in three contests, won it but does not, on the final day when they lost the English championship against Everton and in the semi-finals of the European Cup of Champions the Scottish champions Celtic FC defeated. Cooper was part of the team during these defeats and also played in the FA Cup final against Chelsea, Leeds with 1:2 lost in the replay. However, during the subsequent 1970 World Cup in Mexico Cooper could draw attention to themselves on the left -back position and played continuously until the quarter-final defeat to Germany again with good performances as a regular player.
Leeds won again in 1971, the Fairs Cup, but playful again on the final day, the English Championship and was defeated in one of the biggest upsets in FA Cup history of the unterklassigen team Colchester United in the fifth round 3-2. Cooper missed only one league game during the season.
Cooper also fought in the 1971/72 season with Leeds to several titles, before forcing him a broken leg in April 1972 during a championship game at Stoke City in a 20 - month break. This meant that Cooper was unable to attend the final victory in the FA Cup against Arsenal and the national team career ended first place. After Revie in Madeley found an adequate substitute for the position Coopers, Leeds bought in the summer of 1972 as a permanent replacement Trevor Cherry. Cooper also missed the final defeats in the FA Cup and the European Cup Winners' Cup when Leeds lost to Sunderland FC and AC Milan. During the 1973/74 season Cooper returned, but played in only one match, as Leeds with a series of 29 games won the English championship without defeat.
When Cooper had recovered from his injury, but his time in Leeds walked slowly coming to an end. Both the obligation Revies as England manager in 1974 and the appearance of Frank Gray, younger brother of Eddie Gray, in the season ensured due to the additional presence of Cherry for leaving Coopers for Middlesbrough FC after the club, with its slowly into the years -down players in a last grand finale was defeated in Europe champions Cup against FC Bayern Munich. Middlesbrough was coached at the time by former teammate Cooper Charlton.
After his long-term injury Cooper surprised by the fact that he was for many years active as a football player. After three injury-free years at Middlesbrough Cooper spent a year with Bristol City before he player-manager of the Bristol Rovers was then. Then he was Kotrainer and players at the Doncaster Rovers, who were cared for by his former teammate and captain Billy Bremner. He then again as player-coach to Bristol City. Then Cooper coached the club Exeter City, followed by a commitment at Birmingham City followed before he returned to Exeter. Today Cooper is Talent scouts ( scout) for Southampton FC.
Cooper's son Mark was in the 1980s also football players, while active in the lower professional leagues. After that, he also grabbed the trainer activities.
Achievements
- English Champion: 1969, 1974
- FA Cup Winners: 1972
- League Cup winners: 1968
- Fairs Cup winners: 1968, 1971