Meet Sir Alex Ferguson, coach Legend
Introduction
With almost 50 titles to his credit (most in Manchester United), Sir Alex Ferguson is a living legend in the history of football. In this article we will tell you about his career, both as a player and coach.
Developing
Sir Alex Ferguson’s career as a player
Compared to his career as a coach, Alex Ferguson’s career as a footballer is quite brief. But it is also worth knowing.
Born in Glasgow, Scotland in December 1941, Alexander Chapman Ferguson began his career as a striker at 16 in the Queen’s Park Scottish team. In his first game he scored a goal, although he did not serve to give him the victory.
In his stage for this club he became the top scorer with 20 goals in 31 meetings. But as I had to work part time (I did not charge in the Queen’s Park) had to change equipment and go to the ST. Johnstone in 1960. Four years later he would go to Dunfermline Athletic and in 1967 he would be part of what would be the ‘best’ team where Alex Ferguson would play: the Rangers. There he spent two years, converted 44 goals and played 57 games.
Between 1969 and 1973 he played for Falkirk and in the last season of his career as a player (1973-74) he militated for Ayr United. A curiosity about Ferguson is that he always played in Scottish teams. It is said that when Nottingham Forest of England wanted to hire him at the beginning of the 70s, his wife Cathie did not want to move from the country, so Alex continued playing in Scotland. In the 17 years that his career as a footballer lasted, he played in six teams, participated in 338 games and converted 191 goals (half a goal per game according to the average).
Alex Ferguson and his first steps as coach
Just as it happened in its beginnings as a player, when Ferguson was hired as a coach in the summer of 1974 the situation was something ‘precarious’. The team where I worked, East Stirlingshire did not even have a goalkeeper in the 11th. But that did not make Alex lower his arms, but quite the opposite. The players of that template claim that it was a ‘type of fear, very respected by all’.
A short time later Alex Ferguson is hired by another Scottish team, Saint Mirren, whom he will direct until 1978 and was a total revolution. This is where his first title as a coach, a league of Scotland. In 1978 he went to Aberdeen, from the first division of his native country. In the eight years of mandate he gets three leagues of Scotland, four Cups of Scotland, a cup of the league, a European recopa and a European Super Cup. In total, it gives the club 10 titles, more than one per year.
In the middle of that work, he is hired to be the coach of the Scottish national team, where he was an advisor, but after the death of coach Jock Stein Alex replaces it. It would only be the leader for 10 meetings until 1986.
Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United
The year 1986 will not go unnoticed by the story of Alex Ferguson, who is hired to be the coach, nothing more and nothing less, than Manchester United of England. One of his first challenges when he arrived in this English city was to improve the mood of his players (who, according to Ferguson they drank too much and were very depressed).
In the following season he made important hiring and significantly improved the team, who finished only nine points below the champion, Liverpool. With a really ant work, Ferguson had to pass several seasons of drought until the first title. It was in 1992-93 when he could take the long-awaited Premier League that he broke with Drought decades in Manchester, and from there, nothing or anyone stopped him.
conclusion
With 32 national titles won in 27 years, Sir Alex Ferguson is the best coach, not only of Manchester, but also in the world. And if we add two UEFA Champions Leagues, a Europe.
With Manchester he won the a whopping of 38 titles! And throughout his career, The Boss has achieved 49 crowns. It will be very difficult to match and overcome, there is no doubt about that.
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