- David Lowe (footballer)
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David Lowe Personal information Full name David Anthony Lowe Date of birth 30 August 1965 Place of birth Liverpool, England Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) Playing position Right winger Youth career 1982–1983 Wigan Athletic Senior career* Years Team Apps† (Gls)† 1983–1987 Wigan Athletic 188 (40) 1987–1992 Ipswich Town 134 (37) 1992 → Port Vale (loan) 9 (2) 1992–1994 Leicester City 94 (22) 1994 → Port Vale (loan) 19 (5) 1996–1999 Wigan Athletic 109 (26) 1999–2000 Wrexham 10 (1) 2000 → Rushden & Diamonds (loan) 12 (4) Total 575 (137) National team 1988 England under-21 2 (0) Teams managed 2009 Derby County (caretaker) * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).David Anthony Lowe (born 30 August 1965 in Liverpool) is an English former footballer. He made almost 600 appearances in the Football League in a career spanning seventeen years.
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Playing career
Lowe began his career as an apprentice at Wigan Athletic on a recommendation by a teacher from his school league days to then Wigan manager Harry McNally. Subsequently, Lowe made his first-team début in October 1982 against Reading. In 1985, Lowe would score in the Freight Rover Trophy Final with a spectacular overhead kick to help his team win the match 3–1.
In June 1987, after playing 188 League games for Wigan, Lowe transferred to Ipswich Town for £80,000, making his début for them in the 1987–88 season. He would go on to become the club's leading scorer for that campaign and again in 1989–90, but was loaned out to Port Vale in 1992. In July of that year, Lowe signed for Leicester City for £250,000. In a pre-season friendly against Borussia Mönchengladbach, one of his first games for the club, he broke his cheekbone. However he would become a regular first team player at Leicester, he also spent February to May 1994 on loan with Port Vale once again.[1] Upon his return he was a first team regular until March 1996, when he re-signed for Wigan Athletic for £125,000.
In 1996–97, Lowe celebrated his 300th league game for the club and his goal in the final game of the season would secure the Third Division title and promotion to Division Two. The following season he would break the club's individual goalscoring record, his 60th goal to surpass Peter Houghton's tally coming in a 5–1 defeat of Burnley. After collecting the club's Supporters' and Player of the Year trophies, Lowe was plagued by injuries and released by Wigan in June 1999. Lowe made the move to Wrexham, where he was offered a player-coach role. In 2000, he spent a loan spell at non-league Rushden & Diamonds where, after netting four goals, he decided to retire as a player.
Coaching career
After retiring as a player, Lowe worked for the Professional Footballers' Association until 2002, when he joined Wigan Athletic under former team-mate Paul Jewell.[2] A fully qualified coach, Lowe fulfilled various roles at Wigan before following Jewell to Derby County and becoming Head of the Youth Academy at the club. Following the departure of Jewell and prior to the arrival of new manager Nigel Clough, Lowe was placed in temporary charge of solitary game in January 2009, where his Derby team beat Manchester United 1–0 in the first leg of the League Cup semi-final at Pride Park Stadium.[3] He left the club on 21 April 2009. He then did part-time work for Manchester United, in charge of the eldest participants in Manchester United Soccer Schools, before joining the backroom staff at Tranmere Rovers.[4] On 22 June 2011, Lowe joined Blackburn Rovers as club youth coach.[5]
Honours
- With Wigan Athletic
- Football League Trophy winner: 1985
- Football League Third Division champion: 1996–97
References
- ^ Kent, Jeff (1996). Port Vale Personalities. Witan Books. p. 177. ISBN 0952915200. http://www.amazon.ca/Port-Vale-Personalities-Jeff-Kent/dp/0952915200.
- ^ "Lowe returns to Wigan". BBC Sport. 24 June 2002. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/low/football/teams/w/wigan_athletic/2062542.stm. Retrieved 2009-05-25.
- ^ "Ferguson confident despite defeat". BBC Sport. 7 January 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/7817045.stm. Retrieved 2009-05-25.
- ^ http://www.wirralnews.co.uk/tranmere-rovers-fc/tranmere-rovers-fc-news/2010/08/21/david-lowe-is-delighted-to-join-tranmere-rovers-backroom-staff-80491-27105993/
- ^ http://www.tranmererovers.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10365~2379835,00.html Lowe joins Blackburn Rovers
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Categories:- 1965 births
- Living people
- English footballers
- England under-21 international footballers
- Premier League players
- Wigan Athletic F.C. players
- Ipswich Town F.C. players
- Port Vale F.C. players
- Wrexham F.C. players
- Rushden & Diamonds F.C. players
- Leicester City F.C. players
- English football managers
- Derby County F.C. managers
- Tranmere Rovers F.C. non-playing staff
- Blackburn Rovers F.C. non-playing staff
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