Russell Osman

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Jump to: navigation, search

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

<templatestyles src="Module:Infobox/styles.css"></templatestyles>

Russell Osman
Personal information
Full name Russell Charles Osman
Date of birth (1959-02-14) 14 February 1959 (age 65)
Place of birth Repton, England
Height Script error: No such module "person height".
Position(s) Centre back
Team information
Current team
Ipswich Town (coach)
Youth career
1975–1976 Ipswich Town
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1976–1985 Ipswich Town 294 (17)
1985–1988 Leicester City 108 (8)
1988–1991 Southampton 96 (6)
1991–1994 Bristol City 70 (3)
1995 Sudbury Town
1995 Plymouth Argyle 0 (0)
1995–1996 Brighton & Hove Albion 12 (0)
1996 Cardiff City 15 (0)
Total 595 (34)
International career
1979–1980 England U21 7 (0)
1980 England B 2 (1)
1980–1983 England 11 (0)
Managerial career
1993–1994 Bristol City
1995 Plymouth Argyle (caretaker)
1996 Cardiff City
2004 Bristol Rovers (caretaker)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Russell Charles Osman (born 14 February 1959) is an English former footballer who played in the Football League for Ipswich Town, Leicester City, Southampton, Bristol City, Brighton & Hove Albion and Cardiff City. He was a centre back. Osman played senior international football for England, for whom he received eleven caps.

Playing career

Osman was born in Repton, Derbyshire, the son of Rex Osman who played a handful of games for Derby County in the early 1950s. Russell Osman played nearly 400 games for Ipswich Town and represented his country 11 times.[1][2] His first England cap came against Australia in a friendly on 31 May 1980, his last on 21 September 1983 in England's 1-0 Euro 84 qualifying match defeat to Denmark.[3]

Management career

Later in his playing career he was player-manager of Bristol City, and had a brief spell as caretaker manager of Plymouth Argyle[4] before later managing Cardiff City. He had a brief role as joint caretaker manager of Bristol Rovers in 2004.[1] In November 2007, he was appointed as assistant manager to Paul Tisdale at Exeter City.[5] In February 2011 he was appointed coach of the Ipswich Town Under 18's.[6] He left the role in August 2013.[7] In July 2015 Osman joined Newport County as assistant manager to Terry Butcher. Butcher, Osman and Steve Marsalla were sacked on 1 October 2015 with Newport bottom of league two after gaining just 5 points from the first 10 matches of the 2015-16 season.[8]

Escape to Victory

He also played one of the prisoner-of-war footballers in Escape to Victory. The 1981 film also included soccer legend Pelé, American actor Sylvester Stallone, British actor Michael Caine and ex-soccer player Ossie Ardiles. The film was based on a game between an Allied team and a Nazi German team during World War II.

Honours

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. Argyle Managers Greens on Screen. Retrieved 5 February 2010.
  5. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. Osman Ispwich U1nder 18's coach
  7. Osman leaves Ipswich
  8. Newport County part company with manager Terry Butcher

External links