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Viv Anderson
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English footballer (born 1956)
OverviewAI-generated
Viv Anderson is a male association football player and coach from the United Kingdom. Born in Clifton, he played as a defender for Middlesbrough F.C., Arsenal F.C., Sheffield Wednesday F.C., and Barnsley F.C. He also coached Stockport County F.C. His career began in 1974, and he competed in the Premier League.
Anderson represented England in the 1982 and 1986 FIFA World Cups, as well as UEFA Euro 1980 and UEFA Euro 1988. He received the award of Member of the Order of the British Empire. He has played four matches and scored zero goals in his career. He speaks English and maintains an official website.
Synthesized by Vinony from 47 facts across 9 sources: Wikidata, OpenAlex, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Crossref, Last.fm, TMDb, Thesportsdb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- First Among Unequals
- Access, class and higher education
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Clifton, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
Known for
- Local Heroes — Self2023
- Icons of Football — Self - Interviewed Guest2023
- John Barnes: Poetry in Motion — Self2018
- I Believe in Miracles — Himself2015
- First Among Equals: The Laurie Cunningham Story — Self2013
- Match of the Day 2 — Pundit2004
- Manchester United: The Official History 1878-2002 — Self (Full-back 1987-91)2002
- Black Flash: A Century of Black Footballers in Britain — Self
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1947-09-26
- Active to
- 2015-07-30
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 6
- Total plays
- 31
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Viv+Anderson">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 1
- Cited by
- 22
Research areas
Most cited works
via OpenAlex · CC0
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.
· 1988 · cited 31,720x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,794x
- Maximum entropy modeling of species geographic distributions
· 2006 · cited 14,826x
- Recommendations for Cardiac Chamber Quantification by Echocardiography in Adults: An Update from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging
· 2015 · cited 11,865x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,704x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- 1978
- England U21
- Full name
- Vivian Alexander Anderson
- Date of birth
- ( 1956-07-29 ) 29 July 1956 (age 69)
- Place of birth
- Clifton, Nottingham , England
- Height
- 6 ft 0 in (1.82 m)
- Position
- Right-back
- Years
- Team
- 1974 1984
- Nottingham Forest
- 1984 1987
- Arsenal
- 1987 1991
- Manchester United
- 1991 1993
- Sheffield Wednesday
- 1993 1994
- Barnsley
- 1994 1995
- Middlesbrough
- 1978 1980
- England B
- 1978 1988
- England
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Team
- _Retired Soccer
- Position
- Right-Back
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
via TheSportsDB
~12 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Vivian Alexander Anderson MBE (born 29 July 1956) is an English former professional footballer who played as a right-back. He is best known for his ten-year stint with Nottingham Forest, with whom he won the First Division title in 1978, as well as the European Cup in 1979 and 1980.
In 1978, he became the first black footballer to play for England's senior men's national team, and from 1980 to 1988, was selected in the England squad for four major tournaments. He also had a short-lived managerial career with Barnsley, before joining Middlesbrough as assistant manager to Bryan Robson, where he remained until 2001.
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