Kevin Sheedy (Irish footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Kevin Mark Sheedy | ||
| Date of birth | 21 October 1959 | ||
| Place of birth | Builth Wells, Wales | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Playing position | Attacking midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Everton (Under 18's manager) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1975–1978 | Hereford United | 51 | (4) |
| 1978–1982 | Liverpool | 3 | (0) |
| 1982–1992 | Everton | 274 | (67) |
| 1992–1993 | Newcastle United | 37 | (4) |
| 1993–1994 | Blackpool | 26 | (1) |
| Total | 391 | (76) | |
| National team | |||
| 1978–1981 | Rep. Ireland Under-21 | 5 | (0) |
| 1984–1993 | Republic of Ireland | 46 | (9) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2001 | Tranmere Rovers (caretaker-manager) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Kevin Mark Sheedy (born 21 October 1959) is a former footballer. He spent the largest portion of his playing career with Everton – with whom he won the FA Cup, European Cup Winners' Cup and two Football League titles – and also played for Hereford United, Liverpool, Newcastle United and Blackpool. Born in Builth Wells, Wales, he played 46 times for the Republic of Ireland national football team and scored the country's first ever goal in a FIFA World Cup finals. He is now an academy coach for Everton.
Sheedy started his career with Hereford United, followed by a short spell with Liverpool, but played just three competitive games in four years and was sold to Everton for £100,000 in 1982. At Everton he made 357 appearances (12 as substitute) and scored 97 goals.
Sheedy's most notable achievements were as part of the 1984 Everton team that won the FA Cup (although he missed the final through injury). He was part of Everton's title winning teams in 1985 and 1987, and in 1985 the European Cup Winners' Cup, scoring in the final itself. In the 1980s Sheedy scored the most goals from free-kicks in the top-flight of the English football league. Perhaps his most famous free-kick moment came in an FA Cup tie against Ipswich Town in 1985 when he scored with a 19-yard free-kick into goalkeeper Paul Cooper's right-hand corner, but having been forced to re-take the kick, proceeded to curl the ball into the keeper's left-hand corner. He was selected in the PFA Team of the Year in both Everton championship winning years of 1985 and 1987.
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