Willie Maley
Willie Maley William Patrick ( born April 25, 1868 in Newry, Ireland, Northern Ireland today, † April 2, 1958 in Glasgow, Scotland ) was one of the most renowned coaches in British football history. He was the first coach of the Scottish traditional club Celtic from Glasgow and won 30 major trophies with the club in his tenure, which lasted 43 years.
Maley was born in the barracks of Newry in Ireland, where his father served in the British Army. However, the family soon moved to Scotland. As a young man Maley was more fond of athletics than football, although in 1886 he also some games for the Cathcart Hazel Bank Juniors completed and a season later aground for the former showpiece club Third Lanark.
In 1888 he was taken from Celtic under contract that were founded in the same year, where he had accepted for Glasgow as a midfielder. As a naturalized Scot, he also played for the national team of Bravehearts.
In 1897 he was appointed by the Celtic Bureau at the age of just 29 years as managing director and coach and immediately won the championship.
Maley never even worked with the players in training, watched the games from the stands and neither spoke at halftime or after the game to the team. Maley not even said to the lineup. Whether they played or not, the players learned from the newspaper.
Until the appointment of Maley Celtic bought primarily experienced professionals from other clubs. Maley rejected this strategy and relied almost entirely on young players.
He designed a young team that won the 1905-1910 six championships in a row and the double of league and cup titles. It was at that time probably the best team in world football and the record of six championships should have up to the 1970 inventory. The stars of the team were: right-back Alec McNair (nickname icicles ), runner Jimmy McMenemy ( Napoleon ) and the center-forward Jimmy Quinn.
When some of these players peaked, Maley built a team to Patsy Gallacher and the still strong McMenemy and won four more championships 1914-1917 and put forward an unbeaten run through that never cracked up again today in the entire British professional football was: 62 games with 49 wins and 13 draws between November 13, 1915, and April 21, 1917.
This team won more league titles in 1919 and 1922 and could also bring in the course of the 20s some trophies Parkhead. Maley had a team to Jimmy Delaney and Jimmy McGrory built in the meantime, the champion again in 1936 and 1938 and 1937 won the cup. At this time, Maley was almost 70 years old.
Maley is the coach with the longest tenure in the history of Celtic. In 43 years, he won a total of 16 championships, 14 national cups, 14 Glasgow Cups and 19 Glasgow Charity Cups.
The era Maley, however, ended more than unhappy. Celtic was put in the basement table and after a meeting with the Bureau in February 1940 Maley resigned. It is said that Maley was terribly angry about the way he was pushed out of office.
His legacy at Celtic is the band Charlie & the Bhoys addressed in the song Willie Maley, one of the most popular songs among the Celtic supporters.
- Football coach (Scotland )
- National football team (Scotland )
- Scotsman
- Born in 1868
- Died in 1958
- Man