Glenn Hoddle

Glenn Hoddle
Hoddle in 2014
Personal information
Full name Glenn Hoddle[1]
Date of birth (1957-10-27) 27 October 1957 (age 67)
Place of birth Hayes, Middlesex, England
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)[2]
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
1970–1975 Tottenham Hotspur
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1975–1987 Tottenham Hotspur 377 (88)
1987–1991 Monaco 69 (27)
1991–1993 Swindon Town 67 (2)
1993–1995 Chelsea 31 (1)
Total 544 (118)
International career
1975–1976 England Youth 8 (2)
1976–1980 England U21 12 (2)
1979 England B 2 (1)
1979–1988[3] England 53 (8)
Managerial career
1991–1993 Swindon Town
1993–1996 Chelsea
1996–1999 England
2000–2001 Southampton
2001–2003 Tottenham Hotspur
2004–2006 Wolverhampton Wanderers
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Glenn Hoddle (born 27 October 1957) is an English former football player and manager. He currently works as a television pundit and commentator for ITV Sport and TNT Sports.

He played as a midfielder for Tottenham Hotspur, Monaco, Chelsea and Swindon Town and at international level for England. In 2007, he was inducted into the National Football Museum Hall of Fame, which cited him as one of the most gifted and creative English footballers of his generation, exhibiting "sublime balance and close control, unrivalled passing and vision and extraordinary shooting ability, both from open play and set pieces".[4][5] He was also known for his tactical intelligence and work-rate.[6]

He has been manager of Swindon Town (earning promotion to the Premier League), Chelsea (taking them to the FA Cup final), Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur (reaching a League Cup final) and Wolverhampton Wanderers. He managed England to the second round of the 1998 FIFA World Cup, where they lost to Argentina on penalties. He was dismissed from the England job in 1999 for a newspaper interview in which he was widely interpreted as saying that people with disabilities and others are affected by karma from past lives.[7] He said that his words were "misconstrued, misunderstood and misinterpreted" and that disabled people had his "overwhelming support, care, consideration and dedication".[8]

  1. ^ Hugman, Barry J., ed. (2005). The PFA Premier & Football League Players' Records 1946–2005. Queen Anne Press. p. 291. ISBN 978-1852916657.
  2. ^ Dunk, Peter, ed. (1987). Rothmans Football Yearbook 1987–88. London: Queen Anne Press. p. 368. ISBN 978-0-356-14354-5.
  3. ^ "Glenn Hoddle - International Appearances". The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Archived from the original on 3 December 2022. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  4. ^ Glenn Hoddle's induction into Hall of Fame in 2007 Archived 20 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine – National Football Museum Retrieved 6 April 2008
  5. ^ Wilson, Jonathan (18 December 2013). "The Question: what does the changing role of holding midfielders tell us?". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 1 September 2021. Retrieved 31 October 2014.
  6. ^ Gandolfi, Remo (13 June 2019). "Hoddle, le due facce di un genio" [Hoddle, the two faces of a genius] (in Italian). www.calciomercato.com. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
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