| Dave Clements | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | David Clements | |
| Date of birth | 15 September 1945 | |
| Place of birth | Larne, Northern Ireland | |
| Playing position | Left winger, Midfielder, Left back | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1963–1964 1964–1971 1971–1973 1973–1976 1976–1977 1978 |
Wolverhampton Wanderers Coventry City Sheffield Wednesday Everton New York Cosmos Colorado Caribou Career |
0 (0) 230 (26) 78 (0) 83 (6) 18 (2) 15 (1) ??? (??) |
| National team | ||
| Northern Ireland | 48 (2) | |
| Teams managed | ||
| 1975–1976 1978 1981–1982 1982–1985 1986–1987 |
Northern Ireland Colorado Caribous Denver Avalanche St. Louis Steamers Kansas City Comets |
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Dave Clements (born September 15, 1945) in Larne in County Antrim, was a football player and manager from Northern Ireland. Events 668 - Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse Italy. Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar Larne (&mdashthe domain of a Viking chieftain is a substantial seaport and industrial Town on the east coast of County Antrim, Northern Ireland County Antrim ( Contae Aontroma or simply Aontroim in Irish) is one of six counties that form Northern Ireland, and one of nine counties Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann Ulster Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a Country within the United Kingdom, lying in the northeast of He started his career as a left winger but also played as a defensive midfielder and left full back throughout a career which lasted from 1964 to 1976 in which time he played for Coventry City, Sheffield Wednesday and Everton making a total of 392 league appearances and scoring 32 goals. In certain sports such as football, Field hockey, Ice hockey, handball, Rugby union, and Rugby league, the term winger For the Australian Rules position see Midfielder (Australian Rules. In Association football (soccer a defender is a player who tries to prevent the other team from scoring Coventry City Football Club, otherwise known as the Sky Blues owing to the traditional colour of their strip is an association football club based in Coventry, Everton Football Club is an English football club located in the city of Liverpool. He played 48 times for the Northern Ireland national team between 1965 and 1976 scoring two goals. The Northern Ireland national football team represents Northern Ireland in international football. [1] He then managed the national team for two years in 1975 and 1976 before moving to the NASL in the United States. North American Soccer League (NASL was a professional soccer League with teams in the United States of America (U The United States of America —commonly referred to as the
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Early days
Dave attended Larne Grammar School and excelled at both football and rugby union, during his time at the school he earned football caps for the national team at schoolboy, youth and amateur level. Larne Grammar School is a co-education voluntary Grammar school located in Larne, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Overview See also Playing rugby union A rugby union match lasts for 80 minutes (plus stoppage time with a short As a junior he played for the Larne suburban team of Millbrook before signing for Irish league club Portadown F.C. in 1961. Portadown is a Northern Irish football club playing in the IFA Championship. After starring in a 2-0 Irish amateur win over Wales in January 1963 he signed for English Division One club Wolverhampton Wanderers. [2]
English league career
Dave Clements' spell as an apprentice at Wolverhampton Wanderers lasted for just over a year, however in that time he failed to break into the first team.
Coventry City
Despite this lack of success at Wolves, he caught the eye of Coventry City manager Jimmy Hill who paid £1,500 for the 18 year old at start of the 1964-65 season. James William Thomas "Jimmy" Hill OBE (born 22 July 1928 is an English football personality Clements made a fine start to his City career, scoring on his debut on the 23rd of January 1965 against Northampton Town and netting eight times in his first ten matches. Northampton Town Football Club is a football club based in Northampton. Two months later on the 17th March 1965, aged just 19, he earned the first of his 48 caps for the Northern Ireland national team against the Netherlands. The Netherlands national football team is the national football team of the Netherlands and is controlled by the Royal Netherlands Football Association Clements was an integral part of the Coventry side which won the Second Division championship in the 1966-67 season and then did well in the top flight. From 1892 until 1992 the Football League Second Division was the second highest division overall in English football. He played as an outside left for much of his time at Coventry for whom he made 228 league appearances (255 including cup games) and scored 30 goals in total over a period of seven seasons. Throughout his time at Highfield Road he continued to be a regular for the Northern Ireland team, earning 21 caps in total while with the Midlands team. His most famous moment as an international player came in October 1967 when he scored the winning goal in a Euro 68 qualifier against Scotland at Windsor Park. The 1968 UEFA European Football Championship final tournament was held in Italy. The Scotland national football team represents Scotland in international football and is controlled by the Scottish Football Association. Windsor Park, in Belfast, is the home ground of the Northern Irish football club Linfield. Coventry manager Noel Cantwell surprisingly agreed to let Clements move on after six year at the club and after rejecting a move to Hull City in February 1971, he moved to Sheffield Wednesday in August of the same year as part of a combined deal that also included Brian Joicey and cost the Yorkshire club £100,000. Noel Euchuria Cornelius Cantwell ( February 28, 1932 &ndash September 8, 2005) was an Irish Cricketer and football Hull City Association Football Club are an English football club based in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire. Brian Joicey was a professional footballer who played for Coventry City, Sheffield Wednesday and Barnsley, England in a career that lasted from 1969 [3][4]
Sheffield Wednesday
He played as a left back for Wednesday and was a popular and successful player in his time there even though the club was not thriving in Division Two and would eventually drop into Division Three in 1975. His strong, robust style of play earned him the nickname "Tank" from Wednesday fans, he played 87 games for Wednesday in two seasons[5] but became unsettled at the end of the 1972-73 season when his good form had attracted the attention of First Division clubs. He played just the opening game of the following season before moving to Everton at the beginning of September 1973 for a fee of £80,000.
Everton
He made his debut on Saturday, 22nd September 1973 in a 1-1 draw at Wolverhampton Wanderers. Dave was made club captain for 1974-75, a season in which Everton were well placed to lift the First Division championship before a late slump let in Derby County. The Football League First Division was the highest division of The Football League between 1993 and 2004 and the highest division of English football overall between Derby County Football Club is a professional football club based at Pride Park Stadium in Derby England. In total, Clements made 85 league appearances in his time with Everton scoring six goals (he took over as the clubs penalty taker) and became one of the most respected midfielders in the top flight. For the Australian Rules position see Midfielder (Australian Rules. During his time at Everton he became player-manager of the Northern Ireland national side for a short time taking over from Terry Neill in 1975 and being replaced by Danny Blanchflower in 1976. William John Terence "Terry" Neill (born May 8, 1942) is a Northern Ireland former football player and manager Robert Dennis "Danny" Blanchflower ( February 10, 1926 – December 9, 1993) was a footballer, football manager [6]
Northern Ireland Manager
Dave Clements tenure as Northern Ireland manager lasted for eleven matches, he took over in the winter of 1974-75, part way through the qualification matches for Euro 76. The 1976 UEFA European Football Championship final tournament was held in Yugoslavia. He took over as manager at the age of only 29 and his first game as manager was on 16th March 1975 and was a Euro 76 qualifier against Yugoslavia in Belfast. The Yugoslavia national football team refers to the national football team that represented the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1920-1941 and the Socialist Federal Republic Belfast ( is the capital city of Northern Ireland and the seat of government in Northern Ireland. This was the first time that Northern Ireland had played a home match in the province since 1971 and resulted in a fine 1-0 victory which put the Northern Irish in with a chance of qualification. However a home defeat to Sweden in October 1975 and a loss in Belgrade to Yugoslavia in the final group qualifier the following month stopped Northern Ireland progressing to the last eight knock out stage. The Swedish national football team is the national football team of Sweden and is controlled by the Swedish Football Association. Belgrade (Београд Beograd is the Capital and largest city of Serbia.
Dave Clements continued as manager into 1976, however results were disappointing culminating in Northern Ireland losing all three matches in the British Home Championship in May of that year. The British Home Championship (also known as the Home International Championship) was an annual football competition contested between the United Kingdom They lost heavily to Scotland 0-3 in Glasgow and to England 0-4 at Wembley before losing 0-1 to Wales in Swansea. The Scotland national football team represents Scotland in international football and is controlled by the Scottish Football Association. Glasgow (ˈglæzgoʊ is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom The English national football team represents England in international football and is controlled by The Football Association, the governing body for football original Wembley Stadium was a football Stadium in Wembley, a suburb of north-west London, standing on the site now occupied by the The Wales national football team represents Wales in international men's football. The Welsh defeat was Dave Clements last game as both manager and player for the national team on 14th May 1976. [7]
Player and manager in the NASL
He played his last game for Everton in February 1976 and moved to the United States, having received a lucrative offer to play in the NASL for New York Cosmos where he played alongside Pelé. The New York Cosmos (1971–1985 known simply as the Cosmos for the 1977 and 1978 seasons was a soccer franchise based in New York City and its suburbs that operated His performances for Cosmos during 1976 ensured that Clements was named in the All-Star Honourable Mention Team for that year, he was also selected for Team America to participate in the Bicentenary Cup against Italy, Brazil and England. Dave moved to coach the Colorado Caribous in 1978 (the only year of their existence) and then to the Denver Avalanche (1981-82), St. Louis Steamers (1982-85) and Kansas City Comets (1986-87). The Colorado Caribous (or The "Caribous of Colorado" as they were officially known was a professional Soccer team based in Denver, Colorado The Denver Avalanche was a Soccer team based out of Denver, Colorado that played in the Major Soccer League. Honors Division Titles 2005-2006 MISL Regular Season Retired numbers #30 Slobo Ilijevski #7 The name Kansas City Comets has been used by two different Indoor soccer teams He was named US Coach of the year in 1982 and 1987. Dave still lives in the United States, he moved out of football and has run his own Irish shop as well as working as a salesman in St. Louis, Missouri in recent years. [8][9]
External links
References
- ^ www.rsssf.com. Gives international record.
- ^ Northern Ireland's Football Greats. Gives details of early days.
- ^ www.cwn.org.uk. Gives details of Coventry career.
- ^ Coventry City Former Players Association. Gives details of Coventry career.
- ^ SWFC Archive. Gives details of Sheffield Wednesday career.
- ^ Career Info www.sporting-heroes.net. Gives career statistics.
- ^ www.northernirelandyears.com. Gives details of period as Northern Ireland manager.
- ^ www.hickoksports.com. Coach of the year in 1982 and 1987.
- ^ Northern Ireland Footballing Greas. Gives details of North American management career.
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