Kevin Keegan
Kevin Keegan Personal information Full name Joseph Kevin Keegan Date of birth (1951-02-14) 14 February 1951 (age 64) Place of birth Armthorpe, Doncaster, England Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) Playing position Forward Youth career Enfield House YC 1967–1968 Scunthorpe United Senior career* Years Team Apps† (Gls)† 1968–1971 Scunthorpe United 124 (18) 1971–1977 Liverpool 230 (68) 1977–1980 Hamburger SV 90 (32) 1980–1982 Southampton 68 (37) 1982–1984 Newcastle United 78 (48) 1985 Blacktown City 2 (1) Total 594 (205) National team 1972–1982 England 63 (21) Teams managed 1992–1997 Newcastle United 1998–1999 Fulham 1999–2000 England 2001–2005 Manchester City 2008 Newcastle United * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). Joseph Kevin Keegan, OBE (born 14 February 1951) is an English former football player and manager. He played for several clubs including Liverpool and Hamburger SV. He went on to manage Newcastle United, Fulham and Manchester City, winning promotion as champions in his first full season at all three clubs. He also managed the England national team. As a player in the 1970s and 1980s, he has been described as "arguably the first superstar English player to attract the modern media spotlight". He began his playing career at Scunthorpe United in 1968, before moving to Liverpool in 1971. At Liverpool, Keegan won three First Division titles, the UEFA Cup twice, the FA Cup and the European Cup. He also gained his first England cap in 1972, and moved to German club Hamburg in the summer of 1977. At Hamburg he was named European Footballer of the Year in 1978 and 1979, won the Bundesliga title in 1978–79, and reached the European Cup final in 1980. Keegan moved to Southampton that summer, and spent two seasons at the club before a transfer to Newcastle United in the English second division in 1982. He helped Newcastle to promotion in his second season, and retired from football in 1984, having been capped 63 times for England, scoring 21 goals. He moved into management at Newcastle in 1992, winning promotion as First Division champions. Newcastle then finished second in the Premier League in 1995–96, after leading for most of the season. After a spell at Fulham, he took charge of the England team in 1999 but resigned in the autumn of 2000, following a loss against Germany in World Cup qualification. He then became manager of Manchester City in 2001 and spent four years at the club before resigning in 2005. He had been out of football for almost three years when he returned to Newcastle United for a second spell as manager in January 2008. This spell lasted only eight months, however, as Keegan resigned on 4 September 2008 following speculation regarding a dispute with the club's directors.