Stephen Roger " Steve "
Bruce was born in December 31, 1960, he is English current football coach and
earlier soccer player, Steve was born in Corbridge in Northumberland, when he
was in school he was a promising football player, but he was rejected by a
number of professional clubs, Steve was about to leave the game when he was
finally offered to play with the club Gillingham, where he played with them
more than 200 appearances before moving to Norwich City Club in 1984.
In 1987 Steve Bruce moved to
Manchester United where he achieved with them a
great success, so he won the title of the English Premier League and FA
Cup and League Cup English professional , and became the first player to
English in the twentieth century who is commander of the team achieved a
bilateral , despite his success in the stadiums , but he was not called to the
England football , Steve has been described by commentators and contemporaries
the best English player did not play with the team in the eighties and nineties
of the twentieth century .
Bruce Began his coaching career
with the Sheffield United club, and he spent short periods in the training of
Huddersfield Town and Wigan athletic and Crystal Palace before coaching Birmingham
City club in 2001, where Bruce led them to climb to the Premier League twice in
the six years he spent with them, before resigning in 2007 to coach Wigan
athletic club again.
Steve Bruce Began training
Sunderland club in 2009, where he pay him a large sum by the owner of the club
versus moving them and ignoring of view Newcastle United, which had offered him
a large sum also to move to their own stadium, but Bruce lingered in the
acceptance of the offer, he has been criticized by some journalists because of
this decision. Bruce continued to coach this team to be impeached in November
of 2011.
Bruce played with five English
teams and participated in 926 games during his lifetime, and scored 113 goals
for teams that play with them. Steve Bruce also has trained seven teams until
today. In recent years, in addition to the training teams, he wrote a number of
novels as well as his autobiography have brought one of these fairy tales,
called "the last player" a bit of a fuss, since the plot was a funny
writer's consideration, while the number of readers reported it exciting and a
degree of efficiency.
The beginning of his career:
Bruce Born in Corbridge in
Northumberland , who is the older brother of two brothers , they are Joe and
Sheenagh Bruce, his father was born in the same city but his mother was born in
Bangor in Northern Ireland.
Steve was one of Newcastle United
fan as a youngster, and he said that he entered the stadium St James' Park
without pay in order to see the team where stated: « I've always been a fan of
Newcastle United and when I was young I crawled under the gates of entry to
keep the money that I had, they've been my team I went to a favorite there to courage. It's something inside you, to follow the team
with the same feeling today. As a number of stars futurists did in the same area,
Bruce played football with Walesind Boise club, Steve Bruce has been chosen for
the team Schools Newcastle, At the age of thirteen years old was among a group
of children who have been selected to pick up the balls in the final of the
League Cup English professional in 1974 Wembley Stadium.
When Bruce refused by a number of
professional clubs such as Newcastle United and Sunderland and Derby County
Club and Southport, he was about to leave the game of football to be a plumber
trainee in Swan Hunter, even an offer came to him from Gillingham club, which
was trained by Jerry Summers, who saw him when he was playing with Walesind in
international tournament for.
Steve Bruce Playing career:
Gillingham:
Bruce spent season 1977/1978 in
the ranks of the reserve team, although he was playing as a defender , but he
was able to score 18 goals to end the season as soccer , and in January 1979 Bruce was chosen to
represent the youth of England, and played with them eight games and
participated in the European Nations Cup football under 18 years old , and in
May 1979 he had become close to playing his first game with the first team at
the club , but Summers decided at the last minute not to be involved , where the club wanted to qualify from the third
division ,Though Bruce was unable to withstand heavy pressure resulting from that.
In August 11, 1979 he played his first game with the club in the English League
Cup professional match against Luton Town club. Steve Bruce has had a
significant impact where he won the award for best player at the club in the
season 1979/1980, he has played with the club more than 200 games have been
chosen in the perfect team of the professional Association player for the third
grade twice.
The Bruce is confident that the
attention of the big clubs dogged him so he did not renew his contract with the
Gillingham club, where the contract was valid until the end of season 1983-1984
, and in April 1983 in a match against Club Newport County he wanted to infect
player rival Tommy Tynan intentionally , but he hit himself a broken leg kept
him sidelined for six months, and returned to the club which has achieved two
important draws with Everton in the FA Cup in 1984 to attract the attention of
scouts in the first division clubs. And it was Arthur Cox coach Newcastle
United wishes to contract with him but resigned before the any step towards it.
Bruce then moved to the club Norwich City in August 1984, a $ 125,000 or £ 135,000.
Norwich City:
Bruce Began season 1994-1995,
scoring a goal in his team's net in the first minute in the first match against
Liverpool, but he scored the winning goal for his team in the semi- final of
the professional League Cup English in front of their opponent Ipswich Town
club, Steve Bruce has been named a player match in the final, he was to vote
for him and chosen as a player of the year in the club Norwich City but the
team relegated to the second division. Bruce Played all the games when club
Norwich City could climb back to the Premier League in the season 1985-1986,
and then Bruce was chosen as the leader of the team after the departure of Dave
Watson, and in the season that followed, he led the team to reach the top
rankings in the history of the league by winning on the fifth place.
In 1987 was chosen as the leader
of England reserve to play in front of team Malta Football Association, and was
the only match his shirt England and was touted as the best defender was not
selected to represent the England football in that period, Bruce said
afterwards: « I was shocked form the coach Bobby Robson at Benfica , he came to
me and said " i should pick you for the team ," it was a good thing
to hear such talk , but he did not encourage me at all, and I will always
disappointed because I did not play even one-time » .
Bruce Began, at the end of 1987,
attracting the attention of big clubs such as Manchester United and Tottenham
Hotspur, Chelsea and Rangers, which were interested in signing him, Manchester
United was able to act quickly and enter into a contract with him, and it was
Bruce has said before that he wants to play with the club. the deal has been close to collapse when
Norwich asked 900,000 pounds to drop him but accepted later by 800,000 pounds,
due to the refusal of Bruce to play in any other game for the club because it
was thought that it would threaten his dream move, and on 17 December 1987,
before the completion of its seventh twenty slightly, he was declared the
termination of the Bruce relationship with Carrow Road Stadium and moving to
Manchester United for $ 800,000 or 825,000 pounds sterling.
Manchester United:
Bruce Played his first game with Manchester United on 19
December 1987, when they won at Portsmouth 1-2, and played in 21 games of the
22 games remaining for the team league, to help the team to get the second
place in the league for the first time since 1980 , and in the next season,
the team obtained center in the middle
of the league, prompting manager Alex Ferguson to use a number of new players
such as Gary Pallister , who joined the club in August 1989 coming from the
club Middlesbrough , his participation was in the heart of the defense , as
described by the commander of Manchester United in 2006 Gary Neville as the best
in the history of the club , has been part of the team that won the FA Cup in
1990.
after it has been lifted off English clubs after the
disaster of Heysel Stadium, Manchester United was first club English to win a
European after winning the Cup Winners' Cup in season 1990-1991 , and Bruce
played regularly and scored three goals in the journey the team to the final to
meet FC Barcelona, he was very close to the first goal , but the ball hit Marc
Hughes to score a goal in his name, and
Manchester United won with two goals against a goal , and in this season, Bruce
was able to score 13 goals in the league and 19 goals in total user's posts ,
and he returned to play again at Wembley Stadium in the final of the League Cup
Liverpool Manchester United where he lost in front of Manchester United club
Sheffield Wednesday .
Bruce Did not participate for
several weeks in the season 1991-1992 when he performed the surgery , as he was
suffering from the problem of hernia for a long time , the Leeds United club has
won League title behind four points after a long battle with Manchester United
, and in April 1992 Bruce led the team
to their first victory in their history in the League Cup, where he became a
team leader after injury Bryan Robson former captain , and continued injuries
chasing Robson in the season 1992-1993 which led to takeover Bruce lead the
team in the first season of the Premier League , Bruce scored two late goals to
lead the team to beat Sheffield Wednesday and leading the team to win the league , the first time
that the club won the league title since 1967, and he and Robson received the
trophy with some after their win over Blackburn Rovers on 3 May 1993 at Old
Trafford Stadium .
During his successes with
Manchester United Jack Charlton said to him - coach of Ireland football - who
discovered the birth place of his mother that he can play with Ireland , Bruce
said in his autobiography that his involvement with the England youth team in
the European Championship he cannot play with other team, and later he claimed that he refused to
play for Ireland because it would cause problems for the club because of the
laws of the Premier League on the number of foreign players , where the Irish
are considered foreigners.
In the season 1993-1994 Manchester
United dominated on English football , where they won the title of the Premier
League for the second time in a row, and then won the title of the FA Cup after
beating Chelsea to be the fourth team and to be Bruce 's first captain of
English lead his team to make bilateral in the twentieth century , and in the
season 1994-1995 the situation was disappointing to Bruce as the club failed to
get the league title for the third time in a row and lost the FA Cup final
against Everton .
In the season that followed , Bruce was
offered for mission training three teams
, but Ferguson refused to allow him to pursue opportunities where it was
thought that he still has a role with the team , and Bruce played in the season
in 30 matches , where Manchester United managed to get the title league , 12
points for Newcastle United, and after a week Bruce was not with the squad of Manchester United ,
which was participating in the FA Cup final because of a simple injury, at the
end of the match the captain Eric Cantona scored a goal against Liverpool , and Cantona asked
Bruce to receive the cup but he refused
, Ferguson said that the refusal of Bruce for receiving the cup was a near sign of him to leave the club , but Bruce aged 35 years was a
suspect in the game in the next season , which is left of his contract,
therefore he requested to move to Birmingham City club in the Premier League by
free transfer, has signed a contract worth two million pounds sterling for two
years to make it one of the more players which litigants funds in England.
His coaching career
The beginnings of his coaching
career:
Bruce led the Sheffield United club
in his first season as a coach for eighth place in the first division. This has
caused in a row when he wanted to pull his team off the pitch in the match
against Arsenal in the FA Cup, where Bruce thought the last team did not apply
unwritten rule about the need to return the ball to his club after her drive
them out due to injury of one of the players, Although the game resumed, but it
returned again. In May 1999, Bruce resigned after one season of his team's mission
because of turmoil in his administration and the lack of financial resources of
the transitions, and the ball was leaving to a job in television, but
Huddersfield Town club persuaded him to contract with him.
Huddersfield was from competitors
to qualify at the beginning of the season 1999-2000 after their winning six
games in a row to be in third place in the first division at the end of November.
the team suffered at the beginning of season 2000-2001 after getting six points
from eleven games, and Bruce was sacked in October 2000, he has been linked to
problems later with Huddersfield president club Town because the president
accused him of wasting £ 3 million on players. Despite the fact that his name
has been associated of training Queens Park Rangers club, but Bruce remained
away from football so appointed a coach of Wigan athletic in April 2001, which reached the second
division qualifiers , but lost in the semi - final. Then Bruce left club ,
which has been coached him for only two months , to be the coach of Crystal
Palace, and despite the fact that his new club began the season 2001-2002
strongly by winning at the top of Serie A and were the most likely to qualify
for the Premier League for the first time since the season 1997-1998 but Bruce
decided to submit his resignation three months after the start of the season to
return to the club Birmingham City for training , despite the rejection of the
club his resignation , but they agreed later it, and during this time he
identified as a coach does not stay for a long time in the clubs .
Birmingham City:
When Bruce came to the Birmingham
City club, the team was in the middle of the order of the first division. The
team was able to overcome the former Bruce team Norwich City on penalties to qualify
to the Premier League after an absence of 16 years, the team has suffered at
the beginning of season 2002-2003 and remained in the bottom of the table, but
Bruce signed with Christophe Doggery to revive team that finished the season
Center thirteenth over arch - foe club Aston Villa for the first time since the
seventies of the twentieth century.
the following season Started well
for the club who could reach fourth place , but at the end of the season the
team got on the tenth position in the league, and in spite of disappointment ,
Bruce has extended his contract with the club in June 2004 to remain at the
club for five years , but after two months Freddy Shepherd Director Newcastle
United 's first goal contracted as a substitute for coach Bobby Robson , the
club was willing to pay £ 3 million for the club Birmingham , and was told that
Bruce was wanting to move , but he remained at the club , saying: " I have
a job I'm doing here and I am determined to get what I want " , and it was
said that Newcastle would be a large
fine or confrontation legal if contracted , after three years, the director of
club Birmingham David Sullivan said that the club stuck papyrus in order not to
go to Newcastle and gave him the compensation he will reach seven million
pounds. The expectations for the season 2004-2005 were great, but the club got
back on the center in the middle of the standings after completed their season
in twelfth place.
After the dismissal of Souness
from Newcastle United in February 2006, the name Bruce again associated with
the club, but Glenn Roeder took over the training mission. During this stage of
the season 2005-2006 the club had suffered in the league, and in the March 21,
2006 were subjected to a major defeat seven goals to none of the Liverpool
Football Club in the league quarter final in the FA Cup, some fans has called
for the resignation of Bruce but the latter insisted that he would fight for
his survival as head coach. Team was able to leave the relegation zone for the
first time six months ago after the win over Bolton Wanderers at the beginning
of April 2006, but they were not able to qualify after Portsmouth beat Wigan
club athletic on April 29, which led to the landing to the first class.
Although the budget for contracts
with Bruce was the largest in the Premier League , but the start of the team in
the league has been slow after losing in front of Norwich City club on their
land in order for nothing to be that game fifth straight without any win, to
increase the claims for the dismissal of
him, Bruce has admitted that the cause of the problems of the team and that he
feared that said of his training, and the team was able then to achieve victory
over Derby County Club aim for nothing , and then they were able to achieve
five consecutive victories to lead the team to participate in the league end of
November. On April 29, 2007 team was able to qualify for the English Premier
League with keep one game, team manager David Gould said to the press:
"There have been black days, but Steve was supernatural and was determined
to return from New he has rebuilt the team again and now we are back to the
place who want to be in it.”
Return to, Wigan athletic -Sunderland:
On 21 November, during the press conference,
which was held to provide Bruce as a coach new to the club, Executive Director
at the club Brenda Spencer said that the signing has been suspended due to
unknown issues between Bruce and Birmingham, and in November 23 the Wigan club
announced for conclusion of a contract with Bruce, and was his first game with
the team in December 1, 2007, when he drew with Manchester City 1-1. Wigan club
spent the rest of the season battling to avoid the drop, and in the penultimate
game of the season managed to win over Aston Villa to ensure survival in the league,
and in September 2008 associated with the name Bruce again club Newcastle United,
following the dismissal of Kevin Keegan team training.
Bruce Wigan club Led to the
center atheist ten in the season 2009/2008 despite losing midfielder Wilson
Palacios for the benefit of Tottenham Hotspur in the transfer window in
January, On May 27 2009, giving Bruce ear to speak with Sunderland AFC to
succeed former coach Ricky Spragaa who resigned after the last game in the
league. On June 3, 2009 it was confirmed that Bruce is the new coach of
Sunderland AFC and a contract for a period of three years, and that he will
join the club.
Hull City:
Steve Bruce signed with Hull City
in June 8, 2012 to be his head manager … so he led them to the promotion to the
Premier League.
