Tony Parks
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 26 January 1963 | ||
| Place of birth | Hackney, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[1] | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Club information | |||
Current team | Aston Villa (goalkeeping coach) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| – | Tottenham Hotspur | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1980–1988 | Tottenham Hotspur | 37 | (0) |
| 1986 | → Oxford United (loan) | 5 | (0) |
| 1987 | → Gillingham (loan) | 2 | (0) |
| 1988–1990 | Brentford | 71 | (0) |
| 1990 | → Queens Park Rangers (loan) | 0 | (0) |
| 1990–1991 | Fulham | 2 | (0) |
| 1991–1992 | West Ham United | 6 | (0) |
| 1992 | Stoke City | 2 | (0) |
| 1992–1996 | Falkirk | 112 | (0) |
| 1996–1997 | Blackpool | 0 | (0) |
| 1997–1998 | Burnley | 0 | (0) |
| 1998 | Doncaster Rovers | 6 | (0) |
| 1998–1999 | Barrow | ||
| 1999 | Scarborough | 15 | (0) |
| 1999–2002 | Halifax Town | 6 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2000 | Halifax Town (caretaker manager) | ||
| 2001 | Halifax Town (caretaker manager) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). | |||
Anthony "Tony" Parks (born 26 January 1963) is an English football coach and former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper in the Football League for Tottenham Hotspur, Oxford United, Gillingham, Brentford, Fulham, West Ham United, Stoke City, Doncaster Rovers, Scarborough and Halifax Town, and in Scotland for Falkirk.[1][2] Parks was appointed goalkeeping coach for Norwich City on 14 July 2014.[3] In 2015, he became goalkeeping coach of Aston Villa.
Career
Parks was born in Hackney, London, and began his football career with Tottenham Hotspur.[2] Though never a first-team regular, he was on the winning side in the 1984 UEFA Cup Final, in which he saved the final penalty by Arnór Guðjohnsen in the shootout.[4] In a career spanning over 20 years, he was on the books of 15 different clubs, making more than 250 league appearances,[1] and had two spells as joint caretaker manager of Halifax Town.[5][6]
After his playing career ended, Parks went on to work as a goalkeeping coach with several clubs and as one of the Football Association's national coaches, working with the England youth teams.[4] In November 2008, he succeeded Hans Leitert as goalkeeping coach for Tottenham Hotspur.[7]
Honours
Club
- Tottenham Hotspur;
- UEFA Cup (1): 1983–84
- Falkirk
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Tony Parks". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 5 December 2009.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Tony Parks". UK A–Z Transfers. Neil Brown. Retrieved 5 December 2009.
- ↑ "Tony Parks: Norwich City appoint ex-Tottenham goalkeeping coach". BBC. Retrieved 14 June 2014.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Staves, Russell (11 October 2007). "Parks' life". The Football Association. Retrieved 5 December 2009.
- ↑ Nixon, Alan (4 October 2000). "Bracewell given task of rescuing Halifax". The Independent. Retrieved 5 December 2009.
- ↑ Wilson, Scott (3 April 2002). "Halifax count cost of Bracewell's exit". The Independent. Retrieved 5 December 2009.
- ↑ "Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp appoints Tony Parks to help Heurelho Gomes". The Daily Telegraph. 21 November 2009. Retrieved 5 December 2009.
- ↑ McKinney, David (13 December 1993). "Football: Falkirk find their fire". The Independent (London). Retrieved 21 March 2015.
External links
- Tony Parks at tottenhamhotspur.com
- Tony Parks career statistics at Soccerbase
- League stats at Neil Brown's site
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