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Nigel Worthington (born 4 November 1961) is a Northern Irish former professional footballer who was most recently the manager of York City. He played a defender and a midfielder, playing his club football for Ballymena United, Notts County, Sheffield Wednesday, Leeds United, Stoke City and Blackpool. With Sheffield Wednesday he won the League Cup in 1991. As an international player, he was capped 66 times for Northern Ireland, and appeared for them at the 1986 FIFA World Cup. Worthington began his managerial career as player-manager of Blackpool in 1997 before he took over as manager of Norwich City in 2000. He guided Norwich to the FA Premier League in the 2003–04 season as First Division title winners. He left just over two years afterwards, having failed to keep them in the top-flight in 2005. He was briefly caretaker manager of Leicester City in 2007 prior to starting as manager of Northern Ireland, from which he stepped down in 2011. ==Club career== Born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Worthington played as a left-back and a midfielder and started his career with hometown team Ballymena United in 1979, where he was Ulster Football Writers Young Player of the Year in 1981. He moved into English football with Notts County for a fee of £100,000 on 1 July 1981.〔 Worthington signed for Sheffield Wednesday for a £125,000 fee on 6 February 1984, where he stayed over 10 years.〔 He won promotion to the First Division in the 1983–84 season as Second Division runners-up. He was a member of the side that won the League Cup as well as a return to the First Division after finishing in third place in the Second Division in the 1990–91 season.〔〔 Two years later, Worthington and his teammates were losing finalists in the 1993 FA Cup Final.〔 Worthington left Wednesday to sign for Leeds United for a £325,000 fee on 4 July 1994, spending two seasons at the club and one season at Stoke City, after signing on a free transfer on 18 July 1996.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nigel Worthington」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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