3rd February – Footballing Birthdays
Former German national team manager Joachim Low is 65 today. Low did not have a particularly spectacular playing career and never won a major honour.
However, this took a major turn when he tried his hand at management. He won the German Cup with VfB Stuttgart in 1997 and the Austrian Supercup with Austria Vienna.
In 2004, Jurgen Klinsmann took over as the manager of the German national team and appointed Low as his assistant. Low then succeeded Klinsmann two years later and went on to manage his home country for the next fifteen years, winning the World Cup in Brazil in 2014 and the Confederations Cup three years later.
Tim Flowers is 57 today. The former England goalkeeper, who won eleven caps between 1993 and 1998 played for Wolves, Southampton, Blackburn Rovers and Leicester City. He also spent time on loan at Swindon Town, Stockport County, Coventry City and Manchester City.
He was Blackburn’s number one when they won the Premier League in 1994/95 and won the League Cup with Leicester City five years later.
Former central defender Darren Peacock also turns 57 today. Peacock started in the lower divisions for Newport County and Hereford United before joining QPR in 1990.
After four years at Loftus Road, Peacock moved to Kevin Keegan’s Newcastle United. He spent four years in Newcastle before moving to Blackburn Rovers, where he went on loan to West Ham United and Wolves.
Former Estonian international goalkeeper Mart Poom celebrates his 53rd birthday today. Poom first moved to England in 1994 when he joined Portsmouth, but only made a handful of appearances before joining Derby County in 1997. It was there where he made a name for himself, and he would spend the next six years at the club.
Sunderland was the Estonian’s next stop and he scored a goal with a header in the last-minute away to former club Derby County in his first full season for the Mackems!
He later joined Arsenal as a back-up before ending his career at Watford, retiring in 2007. Poom won 120 caps for Estonia between 1992 and 2009.
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