Eric Steele

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Eric Steele: Ex-Man Utd coach replaces Forest-bound Gavin Ward

Shrewsbury have turned to ex-Manchester United goalkeeping coach Eric Steele as a temporary measure to replace Nottingham Forest-bound Gavin Ward.

The much-travelled Ward, 43, who began his career at Aston Villa, ends a two-year stay as Shrews goalkeeping coach by taking up the same role at Forest for his old Preston boss Billy Davies.

"I've known Eric for a long time," said Town boss Graham Turner.
"The keepers need specialist training. He was keen to come in and help out."

Ward, who retired from playing at the end of the 2010-11 season after 370 league appearances with 16 different clubs, was first on Shrewsbury's books as a teenager in 1988.

He was then registered as a Town player for the second time last season, taking his place on the bench when second-choice keeper Joe Anyon picked up an injury.

"Gavin's been offered a job at Nottingham Forest and was keen to accept it," added Turner. "I can understand his reasons. It's a big club."

Former Newcastle United, Peterborough United, Brighton, Watford and Derby County keeper Steele, 59, spent five years as Villa's goalkeeping coach before joining first Manchester City.

He then linked up with Manchester United where, under Sir Alex Ferguson, he spent another five years before being succeeded by Chris Woods when David Moyes took over as manager this summer.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23182233?

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Steele began his playing career as a goalkeeper at Newcastle United in 1972, where he was part of the squad that won the Anglo-Italian Cup and won caps at England under-18 level. He then joined Peterborough United, and established himself as first-choice 'keeper, setting a record for most consecutive league appearances (124). That record would later be beaten by another Peterborough player, George Boyd (144). He does however, continue to hold the most consecutive appearances in all competitions for the posh (148). He later joined Brighton & Hove Albion, Watford, and Derby County, winning five promotions in 12 years with those clubs.

In 1988, he retired to run a pub, before establishing Eric Steele Coaching Services, which provided goalkeeping coaching to Manchester City, Leeds United, Derby County, and Barnsley, as well as working overseas in Australia, Switzerland, Norway, Germany and the United States.

Steele was at Huddersfield Town as goalkeeping coach and left at the end of the 1997/98 season when he joined Derby County when they came calling again in 1998, and he spent four years coaching there before being appointed goalkeeping coach at Aston Villa in 2001. Steele left his post at Aston Villa in 2006.

In 2006 Eric visited Australia, where he worked with junior and senior goalkeepers in Victoria and Perth. He worked with well known coaches and helped improve Australian goalkeepers.

In 2007, he became the new Manchester City goalkeeping coach, following the departure of Tim Flowers to Coventry City as assistant to Iain Dowie. Steele left his job at City on 27 June 2008 after being part of the backroom team under managers Stuart Pearce and Sven-Göran Eriksson. Mark Hughes, who had left Blackburn Rovers to take charge of Manchester City, brought with him Kevin Hitchcock, replacing Steele as goalkeeping coach. Paul Ince soon appointed him as goalkeeping coach at Blackburn Rovers. However, just weeks after joining Blackburn, Steele attracted the attention of Manchester United, who had been in search of a new goalkeeping coach since Tony Coton had been forced to retire through injury. In preparation for Steele's departure, Blackburn signed Bobby Mimms from Wolverhampton Wanderers as their new goalkeeping coach.

Manchester United confirmed the signing of Steele on 4 August. Steele was leaving United after David Moyes took over as manager in 2013.

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RoM: Tribute To Eric Steele




Eric Steele began his playing career as a goalkeeper at Newcastle United in 1972. His next club was Peterborough United where he established himself as first-choice keeper and set a record for most consecutive league appearances (124) that still stands today. Within the next 12 years he moved from club to Brighton & Hove Albion, then Watford, and finally Derby County. He won five promotions in his time with these clubs.

Steele then retired to run a pub in 1988 before establishing Eric Steele Coaching Services, which provided goalkeeping coaching to Manchester City, Leeds United, Derby County, and Barnsley, as well as working overseas in Australia, Switzerland, Norway, Germany and the United States.

He took on a permanent position at Derby County for four years, starting 1997, before being appointed goalkeeping coach at Aston Villa in 2001. He even had a stint as the manager before Martin O’Neil was appointed. In 2007, he became the new Manchester City goalkeeping coach, following the departure of Tim Flowers to Coventry City as assistant to Iain Dowie.

When Mark Hughes was given the Manchester City job he opted to bring in his own backroom staff and deemed Steele surplus to requirements. He was snapped up by Paul Ince just weeks after he was made manager at Blackburn.

However, our goalkeeping coach, Tony Coton, was then forced in to retirement through injury and recommended that we went for Steele. Steele had been Coton’s coach when he played for City and he thought very highly of him.

“We have approached someone for the job and we’re waiting for clearance to employ him,” Ferguson said at the time. We were given clearance and Steele became our goalkeeping coach, with the suggestion that we loaned Danny Simpson to Blackburn to sweeten the deal.

“Eric Steele was my goal keeping coach when I was a player at Manchester City, and it soon became evident that after just a couple of training sessions that Eric was a unique and talented coach,” Coton said. “Eric was different due to his innovative teaching style. Every session was a challenging and interesting, and his breadth and depth of knowledge was second to none.

Because of this I decided to call Eric “The Guru”, a name that he is now known by throughout the Premier League.”

It was just a few months after joining the club that Steele was making the headlines after playing a crucial role in our 2009 League Cup final win. Despite Edwin Van der Sar still being at the club, Ben Foster played in the final after being our keeper in that competition in the previous rounds. A 0-0 draw against Tottenham Hotspur meant we went to a penalty shoot out, with Foster saving one and Spurs missing the target with another.

“We have done a lot of research into the way each player is going to put their penalty,” Foster said after the game. “We went into the shootout as well prepared as possible. We have had things to look at over the last couple of days and before the shootout you can see me looking at an iPod with Eric Steele. It had actual video on it and showed where players put things. It is a new innovation for us. Eric brought it when he came to the club. I have never seen anything like it. It is a fantastic tool for us. But when it comes to penalties, goalkeepers cannot lose. We are not expected to save them. If we do, it is a bonus.”

Foster’s comments on Steele’s help were all over the papers, much to our coach’s embarrassment.

“I am finding all the fuss a little embarrassing,” said Steele. “I even had calls from Italy this week asking if we would be using the iPod against Inter Milan in the Champions League if the game goes to a penalty shoot-out. But it is just part of the research you would expect from a club of Manchester United’s stature.”

Steele’s more recent success is the development of David de Gea, who joined the club with bags of potential but who understandably needed time to adjust to the Premier League. He was given an awful time in the press, with every mistake magnified and every not performance not given the praise it deserved. At the end of his second season, De Gea has been voted by the PFA as the best keeper in the league, and Steele has to take some credit for that.

To help De Gea’s development, Steele showed his dedication to the cause by learning to speak Spanish. Following a superb performance from our keeper at the Bernabeu earlier this season, Steele spoke about how De Gea had dealt with all the criticism in the past.

“In Spanish we call it cresta cabeza,” he said. It means, literally, quiff-head. “Any criticism goes off that quiff. That is the great thing about him. He’s able to say: ‘Right, fine.’ He might have dark moments but he keeps them away from the training ground. If he is ever hurt, he doesn’t show it.”

Whilst Steele had been going to Spanish lessons, De Gea has been going to English lessons twice a week with team mate Shinji Kagawa. In the press conference for the Real Madrid game, De Gea was the player Sir Alex Ferguson took with him. “He was disappointed he got only two questions,” said Steele. “He was ready to answer some in English!”

The difference in our keeper between when he first joined and now is massive. My only fear is that he will leave before his peak, but we’ve at least got a few years ahead of us with one of the brightest goalkeeping talents in European football and we are indebted to Steele for that, who watched him play at Atletico Madrid and who has been De Gea’s biggest cheerleader since he first signed.

“You bring a boy into the Premier League at 20,” Steele said. “It’s not easy. He’s learning in the toughest environment in the world. But the one thing he has is fantastic inner strength. We teach him that the calmest man on the field has to be the goalkeeper. And one of his great strengths is his calmness.

There have been dark moments but he has his family close to him. He doesn’t read the press. All the other mediums are there, which he knows about. But everything that has been going on around him for the last four or five months … trust me, he’s very mature for his age. He’s had to be because you’re not just replacing a goalkeeper in Edwin, you’re replacing a legend. It’s not just about the shot- stopping. There’s more to it. Put it this way, if you think about what David has been through, he has to have inner strength. He has dealt with it. And he’s such a likeable lad. He hasn’t come in swearing and squeaking. He’s just got on with his job. We bring in a lot of young players here. The manager has always done that and, if you’re bringing in young players, you have to have confidence in them and let them build and thrive. We just put the shield up. You’re there to be shot at but that’s fine, you deal with it. And David will be fine. He has always been a goalkeeper. He believes he was born to be a goalkeeper.”

Confirmed: That Steele is not part of David Moyes plans as he looks to bring in staff he’s worked with at Everton.

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Mitten has conducted an exclusive interview with Eric Steele for the Scandinavian Supporters Club and I have, quickly, translated it here.

As a former English student I am a bit ashamed as I feel that my work here is a wee bit sloppy and rushed, but I didn't have too much time on my hands. I hope that you'll find the interview readable! de Gea eats too many tacos and sleeps three times a day.

Part One

On De Gea

So, you found him while you were at City?
ES: Yes, David was playing for the Spanish U17 team in the European Championship final against England in 2007. Spain won 1-0 and he made a couple of things which prompted me to note his name and track his progress.

How did your transfer to United come about?
ES: A good friend of mine, Tony Coton, was the current GK coach for United. He rang me in december 2007 and said he was retiring due to a knee injury. He still lives in Bolton, by the way, and does scouting work for QPR. TC explained that the manager had asked him to recommend someone to succeed him and he asked if i was interested. Of course I was. No disrespect to City, there are some proper football people there, but United is at a completely different level in terms of tradition and history, on and off the pitch. They are like a huge machine, that is why I wanted to go there.

I struggled a little bit with my loyalty since I had signed a three year contract with Sven (Erikssson) at City, so it ended with me staying there for the rest of the season.

Thus I missed the Champions League final in Moscow. However, I felt that I needed to show my loyalty to Sven, and I can't regret that now.

In the end, I lost my job before I could announce that I was leaving. Shinawatra was getting rid of some of the highest paid staff at the club and I found out that I was going to be let go when we were in Bangkok to play a post-season friendly. Sven had a meeting with Shinawatra and came back and told us: "I've lost my job, and so have you, Eric."

I was then in contact with United. I had spoken with Sir Alex, but he had another problem in the summer of 2008:

Cristiano Ronaldo. Ronaldo wanted to leave the club and the manager had cut his holiday short in order to persuade him to stay. To put it this way, I wasn't his top priority at that moment. TC acted almost like my agent, phoning David Gill and the manager daily, but he never got a response.

At the end of June I had still not heard from the club. Then Paul Ince was appointed as manager of Blackburn and he brought Archie Knox with him. They wanted to bring my self to Blackburn as well, and I was interested. It would mean that I could stay in the Premier League and continue to live in Manchester, that's why I accepted their offer.

I signed the contract with Blackburn at 2 PM 5th of July and guess who phoned me two hours later? The gaffer.

"I've just signed for Blackburn", I said.

"You fool" he replied.

"What do you mean with that? I never heard anything from you. TC never heard anything."

"Okay then, my bad. I'll take care of it" was the response.

After that I went to a training camp in Portugal with Blackburn. They had a brilliant backroom staff, even though I was not convinced by Paul Ince. Paul also told me that I was not allowed to cancel my contract.

"You and I both know what's going to happen now", I said. A little bit later United and Blackburn came to an agreement, I think they were compensated something like 70 or 80,000 GBP for my three weeks there.

United later rang me up, and said that my first match was a friendly against Juventus.

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Part two

How was it to arrive at Carrington? You didn't know many people there?
The manager actually hadn't told anyone that I was coming, but he shortly realized it and told Mike Phelan and his secretary Lynn Laffin. Then he explained that he wanted me to work with Edwin.

How was working with Edwin van der Sar?
He was a gentleman, he studied the game of football. He was very knowledgeable. I'll never answer the question of weather Edwin or Peter was the best goalkeeper but Edwin's save from Anelka in Moscow put him, at least, at the same level as Peter in my opinion.

I studied Edwin, and even though Peter was more verbal and more imposing, Edwin had a very strong presence, even though he was calm.

What was so special with Edwin was his ability to launch attacks, United had developed a lot since Peter's days, football was different. I looked at Edwin's past to find out as much as possible about him and I quickly realized that the manager regretted not getting him before he signed for Fulham.

How on earth did he end up at Fulham? No disrespect to Fulham, but I had to ask my self that question. I didn't need to concern myself with Edwin off the pitch, he was a grown man of 37. I was more of putting things in place for him, the most important thing I could do was to ask him: "Ewdin, what do you need?"

He didn't need to follow the physical part of the training fully, so we made him a tailor made program. There was no point for him to do much work with weights, at 37 he was not going to change his body shape.

My role was to help Edwin prolong his career as much as possible. He had one year left of his contract, but we got two out of him, which gave me time to figure out who was going to replace him.

I listened to Edwin, if he was sore then the training would take place in the swimming pool. It all revolved around how to get him as ready as possible for the next match. If it was raining we sent him inside to train, we protected him. If we were training for match specific situations for the next match against, say Everton then he didn't have to take part in that since he's already played against Everton a dozen times already. It was better for him to sit on a bike and watch different Everton set pieces at an iPad.

One time he asked to go back ho Holland due to his wife's illness, he asked the manager for a leave, and it was never a problem. The manager knew how professional he was. United won the European Cup the year before you came and made it to Rome just after you arrived,

how was that?
Simply heartbreaking.

We all know that we didn't give a good account of ourselves in that match, and Edwin was disappointed over his performances in both of those finals against Barcelona, it's a shame as I know how much effort he put into his preparation for those matches.

To reach the two finals was a tremendous achievement in itself. I'll never forget Ronaldo's goal against Porto, it was one of the most stunning goals during my time at the club. We spent a lot of time preparing for that match, and for the following tie against Internazionale.

Against Porto the manager decided to use Ronaldo as a lone striker. That was the great thing about Cristiano, you could stick him on the left wing in the midweek and then put him up front three days later. Or you could place him on the right wing if the other back had a poor match, he gave us so many options.

But yeah, that final in Rome was really frustrating. Barcelona was so much better than us, player for player and as a team. Our players didn't follow the game plan.

How So?
We know how to play against Barcelona, and we did that for ten minutes. However, we had to keep that up for the full 90 minutes. You got to apply pressure high up the pitch against them. If you allow them to play you might as well throw on an extra ball to have any chance of getting a touch.

Then it happened again? Two years later at Wembley..

Again we didn't follow our own plan. The whole team has to be on board, but some individuals forgot about the team and as the match went on you could see that other players were getting disillusioned (Perhaps the argument which Rene was talking about? - SirAF). You, simply, have to deny Barcelona the ball. If you have the ball yourself then you can inflict damage to them as well. If Barcelona has the ball then you have to chase it around and and after a while it wears you down mentally. Did we have one single player who could lift us that day? No. They were all exhausted.

I don't really recall much of the last 20 minutes. There was no way back. We couldn't get the ball, and when you can't do that you're in for a struggle.

We gave away a hopeless goal, then we equalized with a brilliant strike. Before that we were dying out there. Who scored that goal? I want to remind the fans of that - before they shout that he should leave the club ( This interview was conducted before the season started - SirAF) and who stepped up when Robin didn't score for nine games last year? I'm a huge Wayne Rooney fan.

Were none of the keepers United had on their books good enough to replace Edwin van der Sar?
No. Ben Amos and Sam Johnstone were talented, but not ready for the first team. We also let Ron-Robert Zieler go and I'm so happy that he has kept developing at Hanover. However, he wasn't ready either.

I travelled a lot to find Edwin's replacement. Martin Ferguson and Jim Lawlor also looked at keepers. It was about how they would prepare for a match, how they would warm up and how they would communicate with the defence. We looked at Stekelenburg, Lloris and Neuer at Schalke. However, it is very few german players who leave the country because they know that the national team management prefer players who are based in Germany. We also looked at Casillas, Joe Hart and Petr Cech - even though they would be difficult to obtain. I looked at all of them.

Then the choice was David, who didn't had a very good start at United..

The first six months were horrible. He was only 19 years old and there was a certain risk with that. However, the manager had scouted him together with me before we signed him, so he knew how good he was. It helped that Atletico had other players we were scouting as well.

The manager decided to sign de Gea. The fact that he weighed only 71 kg was a problem though. We worked hard with him both on and off the pitch. We wanted to change his way of life. When he was done with training he wanted to go home, but we told him that he had to report back in the afternoon.

"Why?" He asked then.

It is about a certain lifestyle, he would sleep two or three times a day, he ate his dinner late at night. He ate too much taco. We would give him protein shakes, we almost had to force it down his throat (someone do a gif here! - SirAF). We dragged him down to the gym and he hated it, they are not used to training that much in the gym in Spain. However, we needed to build up his core strength, which we did. * De Geaaaaa..ooh De Gea *

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Part three

But the debut against WBA was horrible?
He conceded a soft goal, yes. He was pressurized hard at the back post, but with ten minutes to go he would still come for crosses. But he got much criticism from fans and the media. The manager decided to protect him, he knew that he had a goalkeeper for the future.

Were you aware of the managers plan to retire?
No. He called me, Mick and Rene into his office that wednesday morning. Then he said: "I'm retiring, the next manager is David Moyes."

You could see that it was a difficult message for him to give. The day before we had been at a golf tournament between the players and staff and all the phones were turned off underway. When we put them on they would all go off, it was not about the manager retiring, it was about Moyes being on his way in.

How did you react?
I wasn't completely surprised, I had noticed that he looked tired. It is almost insane that he managed to keep going for such a long time and it is marvelous that he's got his health so that he can spend more time with his family.

He also has a huge list of things he want to do now. He wants to see the Boca - River derby, and the Melbourne Cup. He also got plenty of money. It was fantastic the times he would bring with him his grandchildren to work, his office looked like a kindergarten! They also used to correct him and ask him why he played certain players.

"Why are you playing Nani, granddad? He's rubbish!" was one of the things they would say. He was always laughing his head off when they questioned his decisions.

Were you worried about your own future when he announced his retirement?
It gets you thinking, yeah. I didn't want to leave, why would I? I knew that David Moyes would come in and I was wondering who he would bring with him. Then you have the United perspective: The manager said "Take care of what we have. Take care of the continuity, work with what you have and it will get you results. This is a massive machine, you are leaving Marks and Spencer for Harrods."

Then you have David's focus - which I understand - I knew him professionally, I know how he works and how involved he likes to be. I've been around in football for such a long time that I know how the game works.

At the same time it is a bit ironic, that you've been a part of the team that won the league after such a great season. De Gea had his best season so far, does it then not make sense to be allowed to continue that work? Unfortunately, it was not my call.

Did you speak to Moyes?
Yeah, he spoke to both me, Mick and Rene. I told him that he was making a brave call. He listened to the managers advice, but he wanted to make his own decisions.

There has been some huge changes. The manager has left, the CEO has left, Scholes has retired and the coaching team has. left. However, there are enough of players in the dressing room who can make sure that United will keep winning.

My time at United is up and I am very proud of what I achieved, I have some great memories.

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Mitten has conducted an exclusive interview with Eric Steele for the Scandinavian Supporters Club and I have, quickly, translated it here.
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I signed the contract with Blackburn at 2 PM 5th of July and guess who phoned me two hours later? The gaffer.

"I've just signed for Blackburn", I said.

"You fool" he replied.

"What do you mean with that? I never heard anything from you. TC never heard anything."

"Okay then, my bad. I'll take care of it" was the response.

LoL ....
Mbayangin Opa Fergie telpon pakde Eric ...

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Originally Posted by rondwisan

LoL ....
Mbayangin Opa Fergie telpon pakde Eric ...

Ternyata oh ternyata,

Bayangin Oppa ngomong, *fool*
Banyak yg lucu kok Oppa

Thanks to Om @fredrian.seven; *salim*

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Thanks udah diposting bro fajrin. Banyak hal yang baru aku tau dari wawancara itu seperti DDG yang dipaksa gemuk

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Ada satu hal lagi yang bikin ketawa ngakak pas mbaca wawancara di atas

He also has a huge list of things he want to do now. He wants to see the Boca - River derby, and the Melbourne Cup. He also got plenty of money. It was fantastic the times he would bring with him his grandchildren to work, his office looked like a kindergarten! They also used to correct him and ask him why he played certain players.

"Why are you playing Nani, granddad? He's rubbish!" was one of the things they would say. He was always laughing his head off when they questioned his decisions.

Bahkan cucu-nya Fergie aja bisa frustasi sama Nani.