Craig Bellamy - Welsh football player

More recently, the football club "Cardiff" has a new coach - Craig Bellamy, who until recently was a well-known striker of various English and Welsh clubs. What kind of person is this?

The main thing

July 10, 2016 ended the European Football Championship. The peculiarity of this tournament was the fact that for the first time 24 national teams of European countries took part. This became possible after numerous changes in the UEFA regulations, which were conducted by the former great French footballer Michel Platini, who headed European football. Obviously, along with the disadvantages of this format of the tournament, which can be attributed, in the first place, the decline in the level of football, there are obvious advantages. First of all, to such pluses it is possible to carry the fact that small countries (which never achieved success in football) got a real chance to get into the final part of the tournament and prove themselves.

Craig Bellamy and Wales

A vivid example, when the national team and its individual players took advantage of the given chance, is the Wales team and its players: Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey. They not only took the chance to go to the final part of the tournament, but reached the semifinals, in fact, along with the national team of Iceland, became the main sensation of the tournament. However, in the same Wales there was a whole galaxy of players who, despite their successful club career, failed to realize themselves fully at the national team level. The best example is Ryan Giggs. In addition, there are a large number of players who do not have a stellar status, which also did not have the opportunity to prove themselves in major national team tournaments. A typical example of this football player is Craig Bellamy. He spent 79 games for the Wales national team, while scoring 19 goals, but unfortunately he could not take part in any major tournament of national teams (European Championship or World Cup).

Club career of Craig Bellamy

Craig Bellamy was born on July 13, 1979 in the city of Cardiff, which is the capital of Wales. His career originates in the club "Norwich", for which he made his debut in the season 1996/1997 and where he showed himself sufficiently bright. At the end of the season, he moved to Coventry. In addition, during his career, he played with varying degrees of success for Newcastle United, Liverpool, Celtic, Manchester City, Blackburn Rovers, West Ham. Our hero ended his career on May 22, 2014, being a Cardiff City player who played in the Premier League. In just a few clubs, Craig Bellamy, a football player, played more than 400 games, which scored over 120 goals.

Trophies

Craig Bellamy, whose biography is covered in the article, is not spoiled by victories. The first trophy of our hero is the Scottish Cup, which he won in 2005, during a short-term performance for Celtic. In 2006, as part of Liverpool, he won the English Super Cup. In the final match was defeated "Chelsea". With the same "Liverpool", but in 2012 the League Cup was won.

In addition to command trophies, Craig has a number of personal awards. His first individual trophy is the achievement of 2001-2002, when he was recognized as the best young player of the Premier League PFA. He also was recognized as a player of the Premier League season (2 times) and the Scottish Premier League (1 time). The player of the year, he admitted during the performance for the "Blackburn Rovers" (2005-2006) and in Wales (2007). Another achievement of our hero can be considered that he scored goals for eight Premier League teams.

The Last of the Mohicans

Among fans of football there is a different opinion about the championship of which country is the strongest. But everyone agrees that the Premier League is superior to all other championships in the thirst for struggle and emotionality. The same characteristic can be applied to Craig Bellamy. Despite the fact that he was never a star of the first magnitude, he had a reputation as a player of sufficiently high qualification. Craig did not stay in clubs for a long time. The reason for this is not his playing qualities, but his character. All of Craig's career was accompanied by various scandals. The most capacious description of his character is one of the coaches - Graham Sunes, who said that he had not met so much anger in one man.

The most vivid manifestation of the bad character of our hero is the case that occurred before the most important match in the Champions League with Barcelona. Craig Bellamy, whose photo after the incident flew all the media, got into a fight with a team-mate. At a time when everyone expected that after this conflict he would be kicked out of the team, the coach entrusted the place in the team and, in fact, the result of the match in which Liverpool won was made. Bellamy scored a goal and gave an assured transfer. Also, his whole career was accompanied by scandals related to drinking, hassles with teammates, coaches, journalists. Currently, there are units of players with such a character, in contrast to the old days, when almost every British player was ready to "die" on the field, and outside the field it was usual to visit drinking establishments and not always exemplary behavior.