Peter Withe

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Peter Withe

Full name	Peter Withe
Date of birth	August 30, 1951 (age 55)
Place of birth	Liverpool, England
Playing position	Striker
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1971 1971-1972 1972-1973 1973 1973-1975 1975 1975-1976 1976-1978 1978-1980 1980-1985 1985-1989 1987 1989-1990	Southport Barrow Port Elizabeth City Arcadia Shepards Wolverhampton Wanderers Portland Timbers Birmingham City Nottingham Forest Newcastle United Aston Villa Sheffield United Birmingham City (loan) Huddersfield Town	3 (0) 1 (0) 17 (3) 22 (17) 35 (9) 75 (28) 76 (25) 182 (74) 74 (18) 8 (2) 38 (1)
National team
1981-1985	England	11 (1)
Teams managed
1991 1998-2002 2004-2007	Wimbledon Thailand Indonesia
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Peter Withe (born 30 August 1951, Liverpool) is a much-travelled English centre forward, who played between 1971 and 1990. He now works as a manager, predominantly in South-east Asia.

[edit] Playing career

He won the Championship with Nottingham Forest but then left on the verge of their European Cup glory to join then-2nd division side Newcastle United.

Ron Saunders took him to Aston Villa on the eve of the 1980/81 season for a fee of £500,000, the club's record signing at the time but a snip considered the service he gave them over the next five years.

He scored 20 goals in Aston Villa's last championship winning season 1980/81. Also the scorer of Aston Villa's winner against Bayern Munich in the European Cup final of 1982.

Capped by England 11 times, scoring once, and was the first English Aston Villa player to feature in a World Cup squad (España 82).

During the summer of 1975, he spent one season in the United States as a member of the expansion Portland Timbers of the North American Soccer League (NASL).

The focal point of a strong offense, Withe scored 17 goals and added 7 assists in 22 games to lead the Timbers to first place in their division and a tie for the best record in the league at 16-6.

The Timbers played two home playoff games in front of more than 30,000 fans each, numbers unheard of for US soccer at the time. They advanced to Soccer Bowl '75, the league championship, where they lost to the Tampa Bay Rowdies 2-0.

[edit] Managerial career

Withe went into management and, after propelling the Thailand national team towards some success, managed Indonesia until 18 January 2007. He was sacked due to his side's inability to go past the first round of the ASEAN Football Championship, the tournament which he previously won with Thailand in 2000 and 2002, then finished as the runner-up with Indonesia in 2004. He was also sustained a brief touchline ban as manager of Thailand for wearing shorts during an international match against the United Arab Emirates. The head of the Thai Football Association said he should be wearing a suit.

He also had a brief spell as manager of Wimbledon, being promoted from position of first team coach in October 1991 following Ray Harford's resignation.

Withe's time in charge was not a successful one, winning only one game out of thirteen in the league and he was replaced after just 105 days at the helm by the youth team coach Joe Kinnear.

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Preceded by Ray Harford	Wimbledon F.C. Manager 1991	Succeeded by Joe Kinnear

	England squad - 1982 FIFA World Cup
1 Clemence \| 2 Anderson \| 3 Brooking \| 4 Butcher \| 5 Coppell \| 6 Foster \| 7 Keegan \| 8 Francis \| 9 Hoddle \| 10 McDermott \| 11 Mariner \| 12 Mills \| 13 Corrigan \| 14 Neal \| 15 Rix \| 16 Robson \| 17 Sansom \| 18 Thompson \| 19 Wilkins \| 20 Withe \| 21 Woodcock \| 22 Shilton \| Coach: Greenwood