Gary Brazil
Brazil in May 2010
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Gary Nicholas Brazil | ||
| Date of birth | 19 September 1962 | ||
| Place of birth | Royal Tunbridge Wells, England | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder / Striker | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Nottingham Forest (caretaker manager) |
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| Youth career | |||
| 1979–1980 | Crystal Palace | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1980–1985 | Sheffield United | 62 | (9) |
| 1984 | → Port Vale (loan) | 6 | (3) |
| 1985–1989 | Preston North End | 166 | (58) |
| 1989–1990 | Newcastle United | 23 | (2) |
| 1990–1996 | Fulham | 214 | (47) |
| 1996 | Cambridge United | 1 | (1) |
| 1996–1997 | Barnet | 19 | (2) |
| 1997–1998 | Slough Town | 50 | (7) |
| Total | 541 | (129) | |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1999–2000 | Notts County | ||
| 2001 | Notts County | ||
| 2014 | Nottingham Forest (caretaker) | ||
| 2017– | Nottingham Forest (caretaker) | ||
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
Gary Nicholas Brazil (born 19 September 1962) is an English former professional footballer and football manager, who now works as Academy manager at Nottingham Forest. He scored 160 goals in 658 league and cup games in a 18-year professional career.
Starting out at Crystal Palace, he turned professional with Sheffield United in 1980. Five years later, following a loan spell with Port Vale, he signed with Preston North End. He spent four seasons with Preston, then spent one season at Newcastle United, before transferring to Fulham in 1990. After a six-year spell with the club he moved on to Cambridge United, Barnet, and finally Slough Town. Following this he spent two periods as manager of Notts County and as a caretaker manager at Nottingham Forest, where he was appointed Academy manager in 2014.
Having joined Crystal Palace straight from school in 1979, Brazil stayed with Palace for just twelve months before taking the opportunity of first team football with Sheffield United, signing on a free transfer in August 1980. In nearly five years at Bramall Lane he played 78 games, of which 30 were as a substitute, scoring 10 goals. The "Blades" suffered relegation out of the Third Division in 1980–81 under Harry Haslam. After Ian Porterfield took charge, they then made an immediate return as champions of the Fourth Division in 1981–82. A mid-table finish in 1982–83 followed, before a second promotion in three years was achieved with a third-place finish in 1983–84, though they had only finished ahead of Hull City on goals scored. In August 1984 he joined Port Vale on loan, and scored three goals in six Fourth Division appearances for John Rudge's "Valiants".
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