Gareth Southgate

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Gareth Southgate
Personal information
Full name	Gareth Harold Southgate
Date of birth	September 3, 1970 (age 36)
Place of birth	Crawley, Sussex
Height	6'0
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current club	Middlesbrough (Manager)
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1989-1995 1995-2001 2001-2006	Crystal Palace Aston Villa Middlesbrough	152 (15) 192 0(7) 160 0(4)
National team
1996–2003	England	057 0(2)
Teams managed
2006-	Middlesbrough
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Gareth Harold Southgate (born 3 September 1970 in Crawley, Sussex) is a former English footballer, currently player manager of Middlesbrough in the English Premiership.

Contents 1 Playing career 1.1 Crystal Palace and Aston Villa 1.2 Northwards to Middlesbrough 1.3 International career 2 Management career 3 Trivia 4 Managerial stats 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Playing career

[edit] Crystal Palace and Aston Villa

Southgate began his career at Crystal Palace, playing in central midfield. He became captain and led the club to the 1994 Division One title. After the south-London club's relegation from the Premiership, he moved to Aston Villa for a fee of 2.5 million pounds, having made 151 appearances over four seasons.

At Villa he was converted into a centre-back and was part of a formidable defence. In his first season he lifted the League Cup and Aston Villa qualified for the UEFA Cup. Southgate played in every Premiership game during the 1998-99 season. He continued to play for Villa in the 1999-00 season, but handed in a transfer request just before Euro 2000 citing a desire to move to a more ambitious club.^{[citation needed]} John Gregory, the then manager of Villa, attempted to keep his club captain but after a year on the transfer list he left the Birmingham club in 2001.

[edit] Northwards to Middlesbrough

Southgate did not sign for one of the major clubs as many predicted but instead became Middlesbrough manager Steve McClaren's first signing for the club. This may have partially been due to the opportunity to reunite his defensive pairing with Ugo Ehiogu with whom he was a centre-back at Villa. Immediately he became a firm favourite at the Riverside, winning the club's Player of the Year award in his first season after a series of assured displays.

Southgate was handed the captaincy for the 2002-03 season when Paul Ince left the club and became the first Boro captain to lift a major trophy when he helped them win the Carling Cup at the Millennium Stadium in February 2004, although his season ended shortly after that win, when he suffered knee ligament damage. There were strong rumours that Southgate could be set for a move to Manchester United following Rio Ferdinand's ban for missing a drug test in January 2004,^{[citation needed]} but it turned out to be nothing more than paper talk. He later committed his final playing years to Middlesbrough, signing until 2007.

[edit] International career

Southgate made his debut for England as a substitute against Portugal in 1996. He was then named in Terry Venables' squad for Euro 1996 on home soil. At the European championship Southgate played a towering role in England's charge to the semi-finals. However Southgate's missed penalty against Germany in the semi-final sent the hosts crashing out. Southgate also played in the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000. Gareth had won 57 England caps and was disappointed not to add to the figure during the 2002 FIFA World Cup finals in Japan and South Korea. However in the penultimate warm-up game ahead of the finals he captained England for the second half of a 1-1 draw with South Korea. His 50th cap came in 1-1 draw with Portugal at Villa Park in September 2002.

His final appearance as a professional footballer came in the 2006 UEFA Cup Final as captain of Middlesbrough, in a 4-0 defeat to Sevilla.

[edit] Management career

Steve McClaren's departure from Middlesbrough, coupled with Terry Venables deciding not to return to Riverside, saw Southgate emerge as chairman Steve Gibson's choice to be the next manager. Southgate does not currently hold a UEFA Pro Licence and it appeared that the Premier League would therefore not sanction his appointment. However on 7 June 2006 Southgate was indeed unveiled as the new manager of Middlesbrough. Southgate has now effectively retired from playing to concentrate on management, although he is still registered to play in case the club suffers an injury crisis. This makes him the first player-manager in the Premiership for seven years.^[1]

Southgate's biggest win as manager to date came at home against Bolton Wanderers, the team he actually lifted the Carling Cup against as Boro's captain. The 5-1 win on 20 January 2007 saw Middlesbrough goals from Speed (og), Xavier, Viduka (2) and Downing.

[edit] Trivia

• During the 2003-04 season he became an author, penning Woody & Nord: A Football Friendship with close friend and West Ham youth team goalkeeping coach Andy Woodman. This book describes an enduring friendship forged in the Crystal Palace youth team that has survived Southgate and Woodman's wildly differing fortunes in the professional game. The book won the Sporting Book of the Year Award for 2004 from the National Sporting Club.
• Has starred in Pizza Hut commercial mocking his crucial penalty kick miss against Germany in Euro 96.
• Is still to earn his full coaching badge.^[2]
• Wants a change in the way players can obtain coaching badges^[3]
• Has claimed Cristiano Ronaldo is a cheat and a 'serial diver'.^[4]
• Gareth acted as a co-commentator for ITV at the 2006 World Cup, covering group games alongside Clive Tyldesley. His appointment as 'Boro manager 2 days before the start of the tournament meant that he left Germany before the knockout phase commenced, when David Pleat replaced him as Tyldesley's sidekick.
• He answered the door to the postman naked.
• Is a close friend with actor/comedian Simon Pegg.

[edit] Managerial stats

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	L	D	Win %
Middlesbrough		June 7, 2006	Present	40	10	14	16	25.00

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Gareth Southgate career stats at Soccerbase
• Gareth Southgate management career stats at Soccerbase
• Gareth Southgate at the Internet Movie Database

Preceded by Steve McClaren

Middlesbrough Player/Manager 2006 -

Succeeded by Incumbent

	England squad - 1998 FIFA World Cup
1 Seaman | 2 Campbell | 3 Le Saux | 4 Ince | 5 Adams | 6 Southgate | 7 Beckham | 8 Batty | 9 Shearer | 10 Sheringham | 11 McManaman | 12 Neville | 13 Martyn | 14 Anderton | 15 Merson | 16 Scholes | 17 Lee | 18 Keown | 19 L. Ferdinand | 20 Owen | 21 R. Ferdinand | 22 Flowers | Coach: Hoddle

	England squad - 2002 FIFA World Cup Quarter-finalists
1 Seaman | 2 Mills | 3 A. Cole | 4 Sinclair | 5 Ferdinand | 6 Campbell | 7 Beckham | 8 Scholes | 9 Fowler | 10 Owen | 11 Heskey | 12 Brown | 13 Martyn | 14 Bridge | 15 Keown | 16 Southgate | 17 Sheringham | 18 Hargreaves | 19 J. Cole | 20 Vassell | 21 Butt | 22 James | 23 Dyer | Coach: Eriksson

Middlesbrough F.C. - Current Squad

1 Schwarzer | 2 Parnaby | 3 Arca | 5 Riggott | 6 Mendieta | 7 Boateng | 8 Woodgate | 9 Viduka | 10 Rochemback | 11 Christie | 12 Pogatetz | 14 Huth | 16 Euell | 17 Xavier | 18 Lee | 19 Downing | 20 Yakubu | 21 Turnbull | 22 Jones | 24 Davies | 25 Morrison | 26 Bates | 27 Cattermole | 28 Johnson | 29 McMahon | 32 Knight | 33 Taylor | 35 Owens | 38 Hines | 41 Walker | 42 Craddock | Manager: Southgate