Bobby Robson - Football Coach

Sir Robert William Robson (18 February 1933 – 31 July 2009) was an English football player and coach. His career included periods playing for and later managing the England national team and being a UEFA Cup-winning manager at Ipswich Town. Robson's professional playing career as an inside forward spanned nearly 20 years, during which he played for three clubs: Fulham, West Bromwich Albion, and, briefly, Vancouver Royals. He also made 20 appearances for England, scoring four goals. After his playing career, he found success as both a club and international manager, winning league championships in both the Netherlands and Portugal, earning trophies in England and Spain, and taking England to the semi-finals of the 1990 FIFA World Cup, which remained the national team's best run in a World Cup since 1966 until they reached the semi-finals of the 2018 World Cup. His last management role was as a mentor to the manager of the Republic of Ireland national team, while his final official club job was at boyhood club Newcastle United, whom he left in 2004. He held several managerial positions outside of England, most notably one year at Barcelona in 1996–97, as well as stints at PSV, Sporting CP and Porto. Robson was created a Knight Bachelor in 2002, was inducted as a member of the English Football Hall of Fame in 2003, and was the honorary president of Ipswich Town. From 1991 onwards, he had recurrent medical problems with cancer, and in March 2008, put his name and efforts into the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation, a cancer research charity which had raised over £12 million as of March 2018. In August 2008, his lung cancer was confirmed to be terminal; he said, "My condition is described as static and has not altered since my last bout of chemotherapy... Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License - Full article

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Fulham	68

Ipswich Town	69/82

England	82/90
World Cup 86	5
World Cup 90	7

PSV Eindhoven	90/92

Sporting Lisbon	92/93

FC Porto	94/95

FC Porto	95/96
Champions 95/96	3

Barcelona	96/97

PSV Eindhoven	98/99
Champions 98/99	6

Newcastle United	99/04
EPL 99/00	32
EPL 00/01	38
EPL 01/02	38
EPL 02/03	38
Champions 02/03	12
EPL 03/04	38
EPL 04/05	4