Manager of the Week: Sir Alex Ferguson
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| SIR ALEX FERGUSON |
Sir Alexander Chapman Ferguson is one the greatest manager in the history of European Football. His achievements as a manager have been extra-ordinary. He is the longest serving manager in English football. He has served Manchester United for 26 and ½ year and has announced his retirement as a manager on 08 May 2013. He was born on 31 December 1941 at Govan, Glasgow.
Managerial career
Sir
Alex started his managerial carrier at the young age of 32 at East
Stirlingshire in June 1974. In October 1974 he was appointed as the manager of
St.Mirren. He transformed this Scottish second division club in to one of the
top club in Scottish football and won the first division league title with this
club in 1977. The average age of the side in the year was just 19 and the
captain Fitzpatrick was just 20 years of age. St.Mirren
are the only club to sack Ferguson as a manager in 1978.
In June 1978 Aex
joined Aberdeen, one of the big sides in the country but the league was
dominated by Celtic and Rangers. In 1979-80 season Alex Ferguson’s Aberdeen won
the Scottish League title after 15 years. In 1982-83 season Fergi achieved his
first European success with Aberdeen by winning the European Cup winners Cup by
beating Spanish giants Real Madrid on 11 May 1983. He won 3(1979-80, 1983-84,
1984-85) titles with Aberdeen and won a UEFA Super Cup in 1983 beating German
side Hamburg SV, then in 1986 when Atkinson was sacked as the Manager of
Manchester United, Ferguson was appointed and from then on he never looked
back.
Ferguson had a slow
start to his English Managerial career and in 1990-91 season after 6 years
after his appointment as a manager he won the first league title with United in
1992-93 season. United won the top division after 26 long years and it was due to
some important signings by Sir Alex. He signed Eric Cantona from Leeds United
and his partnership with mark Hughes was excellent that year.
In 1999 The Scottish manager won his first European cup with Manchester United by beating Bayern Munich in the UEFA Champions League Finals at the Niu Camp. The match was considered as the greatest ever come backs in the History of European football as German giants lead the match 1 -0 until the 90th minute but two substitutes Sheringham and Solskjaer scored in the injury time to earn the victory for the English Champions. United also won the treble that season.
In 2008 United won
their 2nd UEFA Champions League title by beating title rivals
Chelsea 6-5 on penalties in Mascow. In 2010-11 season Manchester United won their
19 league title and got past Liverpool in the all time title’s count.
In 2011-12 season
United finished 2nd in the league table with city rivals Manchester
City winning the title with same points but with superior goal difference. In
2012-13 season Sir Alex signed Robin Van Persie from Arsenal and won the league
title with 5 matches remaining in the league.
On May 08 2013, Sir
Alex Ferguson announced his retirement from managerial carrier, after winning
13 league titles with the Red devils.
| Team | Country | Record | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % | ||
| East Stirlingshire | SCOTLAND | 17 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 36 | 28 | +8 | 52.94 |
| St. Mirren | SCOTLAND | 169 | 74 | 41 | 54 | 292 | 222 | +70 | 43.79 |
| Aberdeen | SCOTLAND | 459 | 272 | 105 | 82 | 914 | 374 | +540 | 59.26 |
| Scotland | SCOTLAND | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 5 | +3 | 30.00 |
| Manchester United | ENGLAND | 1,499 | 895 | 337 | 267 | 2,764 | 1,360 | +1404 | 59.71 |
| Total | 2,154 | 1,253 | 489 | 412 | 4,014 | 1,989 | +2025 | 58.17 | |
| TROPHY'S WON BY SIR ALEX FERGUSON |
| St. Mirren (October 1974 - May 1978) |
| Scottish First Division [1] - 1976-77 |
| Aberdeen ( August 1978 - November 1986) |
| Scottish Premier Division [3] - 1979–80, 1983–84, 1984–85 |
| Scottish Cup [4] - 1981–82, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1985–86 |
| Scottish League Cup [1] - 1985–86 |
| UEFA Cup Winners' Cup [1] - 1982–83 |
| UEFA Super Cup [1] - 1983 |
| Manchester United (November 1986 - May 2013) |
| Premier League [13] - 1992–93, 1993–94, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2010–11, 2012–13 |
| FA Cup [5] - 1989–90, 1993–94, 1995–96, 1998–99, 2003–04 |
| League Cup [4] - 1991–92, 2005–06, 2008–09, 2009–10 |
| FA Charity/Community Shield [10] - 1990 (shared), 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011 |
| UEFA Champions League [2] - 1998–99, 2007–08 |
| UEFA Cup Winners' Cup [1] - 1990–91 |
| UEFA Super Cup [1] - 1991 |
| Intercontinental Cup [1] - 1999 |
| FIFA Club World Cup [1] - 2008 |
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