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Gustavo Poyet
Poyet in 2011
Personal information
Full name Gustavo Augusto Poyet Domínguez
Date of birth (1967-11-15) 15 November 1967 (age 56)
Place of birth Montevideo, Uruguay
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Midfielder/Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1988–1989 Grenoble 37 (8)
1989–1990 River Plate (UY) 78 (28)
1990–1997 Real Zaragoza 239 (63[1])
1997–2001 Chelsea 105 (36)
2001–2004 Tottenham Hotspur 82 (18)
Total 463 (125)
International career
1993–2000 Uruguay 26 (3)
Managerial career
2009–2013 Brighton & Hove Albion
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Gustavo Augusto "Gus" Poyet Domínguez (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpoʝet]; born 15 November 1967) is a former Uruguay international footballer and former manager of English side Brighton & Hove Albion.[2]

As a player Poyet was a midfielder who began his career with short spells at Grenoble and River Plate (UY). He spent seven years with Real Zaragoza, with whom he won the Copa del Rey and the Cup Winners' Cup. In 1997 Poyet moved to Chelsea on a free transfer, and helped the club win the FA Cup and the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. In 2001 he moved on to Tottenham Hotspur, where he saw out the remainder of his career. He was also part of the Uruguay team which won the 1995 Copa América.

After his playing career ended Poyet moved into coaching. He served as assistant manager to Dennis Wise at Swindon Town and Leeds United, and Juande Ramos at Tottenham. In November 2009 Poyet was appointed manager of Brighton and in his first full season led the club to promotion as League One champions, for which he was named League One Manager of the Year by the LMA.

Playing career

Club career

Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, a goalscoring midfielder, he began his career with spells at Grenoble and River Plate (UY). Poyet moved to Zaragoza in 1990; winning the Copa del Rey in 1994 and the Cup Winners' Cup a year later, beating Arsenal in the final.[3] He became Zaragoza's longest-serving foreign player, and scored 60 goals in 240 games for the club. Poyet joined Chelsea on a free transfer in June 1997.

Not long into his first season at Chelsea, he suffered cruciate ligament damage, but recovered to play in the team's successful Cup Winners' Cup Final against VfB Stuttgart. The following year he contributed 14 goals – making him the club's second highest scorer – to help Chelsea finish third in the Premiership, including a crucial headed goal in 1–0 win against Leeds United.[4] He also scored the winner for Chelsea in the 1998 UEFA Super Cup against Real Madrid.[5] In 1999–2000, he scored 18 goals (which again made him Chelsea's second highest scorer), with a scissors-kick volley against Sunderland,[6] a long range strike against Lazio,[7] and both of Chelsea's goals in the FA Cup semi-final against Newcastle United,[8] among the most memorable, as the team won the FA Cup and reached the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals.

With the arrival of new manager Claudio Ranieri in September 2000, Chelsea was a team in transition. With Ranieri seeking to reduce the average age of the squad, Poyet became surplus to requirements and requested a transfer. He joined Tottenham Hotspur in May 2001 for around £2.2 million. In 145 appearances for Chelsea, Poyet scored 49 goals.

Poyet scored 14 goals in his debut season for Spurs and helped his team reach the League Cup final, but they lost 2–1 to Blackburn Rovers.[9] His time at the club was blighted by injuries, and he again sustained cruciate ligament damage in August 2002,[10] but still managed 23 goals in 98 games.

International career

He was also a Uruguay international and helped his country win the Copa América in 1995 (and in doing so was voted as the best player in his position at the tournament[11]). He won 23 caps, scoring three goals. He made his international debut on 13 July 1993 in a friendly match against Peru (1–2). After 67 minutes, he was substituted by Carlos Aguilera.[12]

Coaching career

In July 2006, he became a player and assistant manager at Swindon Town alongside ex-Chelsea team mate, Dennis Wise.[13] Both Poyet and Wise were given permission to talk about forming the new Leeds United management team on 23 October 2006 and looked set to take the place of caretaker manager, John Carver, until Swindon withdrew permission due to disagreements over compensation.[14] On 24 October 2006, Poyet was confirmed as assistant manager of Leeds with Dennis Wise as the manager.[15] On 29 October 2007, Poyet rejoined his former club Tottenham Hotspur to work alongside new head coach Juande Ramos as a first team coach with Marcos Álvarez as a fitness coach.[16] During his first season as assistant manager at White Hart Lane, he won the 2007–08 League Cup, beating Chelsea 2–1 after extra time in the Final after a penalty from Dimitar Berbatov in normal time and a header early into extra time from Jonathan Woodgate.[17]

On 25 October 2008, Poyet parted company with Tottenham Hotspur along with manager Juande Ramos, first team coach Marcos Álvarez and sporting director Damien Comolli.[18]

Management career

Brighton & Hove Albion

Poyet as Brighton manager in 2011

On 10 November 2009, Poyet was announced as the new manager of English League One side Brighton & Hove Albion on a one-and-a-half-year contract.[19][20] Former Tottenham teammate Mauricio Taricco was also announced as Poyet's assistant manager. He steered the club to safety as he had a brilliant start to his career at Brighton by going to Southampton and winning 3–1. He started the 2010–11 season by making a number of signings including Gordon Greer, Radostin Kishishev, Liam Bridcutt, Matt Sparrow, Casper Ankergren and Ashley Barnes. He also signed a new four-year contract along with his assistant Mauricio Taricco.[21]

The season started with five wins from the first eight games putting Brighton top of the League One table. Brighton started the year 2011 with a 5–0 home win on New Year's Day against Leyton Orient.[22] Most notable was a run of eight straight league victories in March, leaving the club 13 points clear at the top with games in hand over all of their closest rivals with the exception of Southampton. Brighton secured promotion to the Championship following a 4–3 home win over Dagenham & Redbridge, Ashley Barnes scoring the winner in the 63rd minute. The League One title was clinched on 16 April 2011, as Brighton beat Walsall 3–1, having been top without slipping since the eighth game of the season and with four games of the season still to play.[23] On 23 May 2011, Poyet was voted LMA League One Manager of the Year for his achievements in the 2010–11 season – his first full season as a football manager.[24]

During pre-season 2011, Poyet made three notable signings, twice breaking the record transfer-fee paid out by Brighton to sign Will Buckley and then Craig Mackail-Smith. On 2 September, Poyet signed former Spain and Valencia playmaker Vicente on a free transfer. After a positive start to the 2011–12 season and the team still unbeaten, Poyet was named as Championship manager of the month for August 2011.[25] Poyet signed a new and improved five-year contract to remain at the club until 2016 on 30 September 2011.[26] On 11 March 2012, Poyet was nominated and won the Outstanding Managerial Achievement Award at the Football League Awards ceremony, beating Crystal Palace manager Dougie Freedman and former Huddersfield Town boss Lee Clark.[27]

On 16 May 2013, days after Brighton lost to Crystal Palace in the play-off semi-finals, Poyet was suspended by Brighton and told to stay away from the club pending an inquiry. Poyet reportedly told his players that he could not guarantee whether he would remain at the club, and also intimated that he had taken Brighton as far as he could.[28]

On 23 June 2013, after a period of suspension, Brighton put out an official statement stating Poyet had been informed that "his employment has been terminated with immediate effect".[29] Poyet said that he was only made aware of his sacking when a member of the BBC production staff handed him a printout of the club statement, whilst as a pundit during BBC Three's coverage of the Spain vs. Nigeria group game in the FIFA Confederations Cup[30] although Brighton & Hove Albion senior management said that Gus already knew about the sacking prior to appearing on the coverage of the Spain vs. Nigeria group game in the FIFA Confederations Cup. He stated that he would appeal the decision, and did but failed in his appeal.

Personal life

His son, Diego (born 8 May 1995),[31] plays for the academy of Charlton Athletic and has played for the England national under-16 football team.[32] He is also eligible to play for Spain by birth, and for Uruguay through his father's nationality.

Managerial statistics

As of 23 June 2013
Team Nation From To Matches Won Drawn Lost Win % Ref
Brighton & Hove Albion  England 10 November 2009 23 June 2013 194 86 59 49 44.33 [33]
Total 194 86 59 49 44.33

Honours

Player

Real Zaragoza
Chelsea
Uruguay

Manager

Brighton & Hove Albion

Individual

References

  1. ^ According to profile by www.sporting-heroes.net and table by www.soccerbase.com. 57 goals in 239 games according to Yahoo Sport UK's table.
  2. ^ "Gus Poyet sacked by Brighton while working as BBC pundit". BBC. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
  3. ^ Moore, Glenn (11 May 1995). "Extraordinary Nayim strike denies Arsenal". Independent.co.uk. Retrieved 27 April 2012.
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  17. ^ "Tottenham 2–1 Chelsea". BBC Sport. 24 February 2008. Retrieved 12 May 2011.
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  30. ^ "BBC Sport - Confederations Cup: Nigeria v Spain & Uruguay v Tahiti". Bbc.co.uk. 15 June 2013. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
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  32. ^ "Diego Poyet". The FA. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
  33. ^ "Gustavo Poyet". Soccerbase. Retrieved 12 May 2011.

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