Roy Keane
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| Roy Keane | ||
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| Personal information | ||
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| Full name | Roy Maurice Keane | |
| Date of birth | August 10 1971 | |
| Place of birth | Mayfield, Cork, Ireland | |
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | |
| Playing position | Midfielder | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Sunderland (Manager) | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1989–1990 1990–1993 1993–2005 2005–2006 | Cobh Ramblers Nottingham Forest Manchester United Celtic | 12 (1) 114 (22) 326 (33) 10 (1) |
| National team | ||
| 1991–2005 | Republic of Ireland | 66 (9) |
| Teams managed | ||
| 2006–2008 | Sunderland | |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals | ||
Roy Keane (born August 10th, 1971) is the former manager of Sunderland A.F.C. managing from 2006-2008. Keane was a Manchester United legend enjoying an extremely successful career with them and is regarded as the greatest ever player to come from the Republic of Ireland. At the same time he is the 3rd best ever player in Manchester United history. He resigned as manager on December 4, 2008.
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[edit] Biography
Keane was born and grew up in Cork, supporting Tottenham Hotspur in his childhood, even though his favourite player was Manchester United's Bryan Robson. When he was 16 he joined Cobh Ramblers, nearlly not making it as a footballer due to his unconvincing height. Whilst playing for Cobh, an impressive performance by Keane was spotted by a nottingham forest scout. Brian Clough the former sunderland player brought keane to forest for 47,000.
Keane's performances for forest drew him a lot of attention from larger clubs, and as Nottingham forest struggled in the league it looked certain Keane would leave. As Forest were relegated he signed for Manchester United with a fee of what was then a British transfer record fee of £3.75 million.
At manchester United Keane found his way into the first team in the 1993/1994 season as Bryan Robsons career began to deteriorate. Keane took advantage of this and not long later he found himself in Alex Ferguson's starting 11. Keane took over as Manchester United captain when Eric Cantona unexpectedly retired in 1997. In the following years Keane was an absolutely vital player for Manchester United, as his performances influenced amazing wins for Manchester United, ironically one of these being an amazing comeback against Sunderland A.F.C. who had pushed into a two goal lead at the Stadium of Light. Keane left manchester United in 2005 for Celtic, where he did not last long before his career was ended by a hip injury. Keane though had made 326 appearances for manchester united, scoring 33 goals.
[edit] International career
From 1991 to 2005 Roy Keane was a regular in the republic of Ireland team. What overshadowed his international career was the infamous saipan incident in 2002 where he fell out with Mick McCarthy and walked out on the world cup squad, retiring until Mick McCarthy left his post.
[edit] Sunderland History
Roy Keane arrived at sunderland as an inexperienced manager fresh from retirement at celtic, in which his career was ended by a hip injury. At the time sunderland were at the bottom of the championship looking to be relegated yet again after a relegation disaster the season before. Keane was an instant success as manager and rose the club to the championship title in which was his first season at manager.
His second season had mixed opinions, Keane splashed the cash to build a large team that could survive the premiership, despite achieving this task and finishing a respectable 15th, eyebrows had been raised on the amount of money spent on players who were not up to the high standards of the premiership such as; Greg Halford, Paul McShane, Dickson Etuhu and Rade Prica. Though some of the signings who were tipped to fail flourished in the premiership, such as Kenwyne Jones, Kieran Richardson, Craig Gordon, Andy Reid and Michael Chopra.
His third season would turn out to be his last though. The board and fans were well aware that his contract would expire at the end of the season, and Roy Keane seemingly stalled on contract talks and claimed, his "contract was not important", but reguardless he signed a range of new calibre players for sunderland that had already made it in the premiership, to be on the safe side rather than unproven championship players. Djibril Cisse was the most noted aqqusition of that transfer window and sunderland started the season on better form than they did previously and Keane established a high point in that season by pioneering a 2-1 overdue victory against the clubs arch rivals Newcastle United at the Stadium of Light. But since that victory sunderland's form, confidence, and ability plummeted dangerously low and a terrible run of 6 defeats out of 7 games including hammerings to Bolton and chelsea put Keane's future in doubt. Days after the Bolton defeat, Roy Keane resigned from his post leaving sunderland in the relegation zone.
Harshly the British media branded Keane a failure at sunderland following his resignation and strong rumors spread of how he had lost all morale and chemistry in the Sunderland dressing room during his last few months at the club. Ultimately the opinion of Keane is mixed with in fans, with some praising his exciting and hyped era at the club, whilst others were glad to see the back of him.
[edit] Notable signings
[edit] External links
- Roy Keane management career stats at Soccerbase
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