Graeme Souness

Graeme Souness - Football: My Life, My Passion

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Headline
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9781472242525
• ISBN-10: 1472242521
• Artikelnr.: 48706077

Autorenporträt

Graeme Souness was born in Edinburgh in 1953. His career begun as an apprentice at Tottenham Hotspur under Bill Nicholson, after which he spent six seasons at Middlesbrough and won a promotion to the First Division in 1973-74. His seven seasons at Liverpool brought incredible success, including three European Cups, five First Division championships and four League Cups. Skippering the team for much of his time at Anfield, he made 358 appearances and scored 56 goals before leaving for Sampdoria in Italy in 1984. He won the Coppa Italia there, for the first time in the Genoa club's history. He returned to Britain in 1986 as player-manager of Rangers, ushering in 'The Souness Revolution' and bringing with it four Scottish Premier Division titles and four Scottish Cups. Souness returned to Anfield as manager in 1991, delivered the FA Cup in 1992, then managed Galatasaray (where he won the Turkish Cup and Super Cup), Southampton, Torino, Benfica, Blackburn Rovers (where he won the League Cup and achieved promotion to the Premier League) and Newcastle United. Souness was awarded 54 caps for his country, and played at the 1978, 1982 and 1986 World Cup finals. He now writes a column for The Sunday Times and is a pundit on Sky Sports.