Brian Kidd

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Brian Kidd (born 29 May 1949, Collyhurst, Manchester), is an English former professional footballer, who since his retirement has worked as both a coach and manager.

[edit] Playing career

Kidd played for Manchester United (1963-1974), Arsenal (1974-1976), Manchester City (1976-1979), Everton (1979-1980), Bolton Wanderers (1980-1982) and both the Atlanta Chiefs and Fort Lauderdale Strikers in the NASL. He scored in the European Cup final in 1968, on his 19th birthday. He earned both of his England caps two years later.

[edit] Management and coaching career

After management posts at Barrow and Preston North End, he was involved in coaching young players before being brought back to Manchester United as a youth team coach by Alex Ferguson in 1988 and played a key role in the development of players such as David Beckham, Paul Scholes and Ryan Giggs. He was soon promoted to Assistant Manager, helping the club to win the League Cup, the Premier League and FA Cup.

He left United to take charge at Blackburn Rovers in December 1998, but the club was relegated and Kidd was dismissed on 3 November 1999 after the side performed poorly in Division One.

Kidd was given the role of head of youth development at Leeds United but quickly rose to the position of number two to David O'Leary a role he continued following the arival of Terry Venables.

In January 2003 was confirmed as England's new assistant coach under Sven-Göran Eriksson in a part-time capacity, replacing Steve McClaren who had stood down at the start of November 2002 to concentrate on his full-time job at Middlesbrough.

However, he left Leeds in May 2003 after the appointment of Peter Reid as the new manager and after undergoing surgery for prostate cancer in May 2004, was forced to resign his duties with England just weeks before Euro 2004.

He returned to football in 2006; during August, press speculation linked Kidd with Sunderland, suggesting that he would be appointed as assistant to new manager Roy Keane. Keane was eventually hired on 28 August, but Kidd was not recruited alongside him. Instead, on 11 September, Kidd was appointed as first-team coach at Sheffield United to work along side Neil Warnock and his assistant, Stuart McCall until the end of the season.^[1]