Peter Anderson (footballer, born 1949)

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Peter Anderson

| fullname = Peter Thomas Anderson

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1949|05|31}}

| birth_place = Hendon, Middlesex, England

| position = Midfielder

| youthyears1 =

| youthclubs1 = Hendon

| years1 = 1968–1971

| years2 = 1971–1975

| years3 = 1976–1978

| years4 = 1978

| years5 = 1978–1980

| years6 = 1978–1979

| years7 = 1979–1980

| years8 = 1980–1982

| years9 = 1983–1984

| clubs1 = Hendon

| clubs2 = Luton Town

| clubs3 = Royal Antwerp

| clubs4 = San Diego Sockers

| clubs5 = Tampa Bay Rowdies

| clubs6 = → Sheffield United (loan)

| clubs7 = Tampa Bay Rowdies (indoor)

| clubs8 = Millwall

| clubs9 = Hendon

| caps1 = 83

| caps2 = 181

| caps3 = 30

| caps4 = 11

| caps5 = 40

| caps6 = 30

| caps7 = 11

| caps8 = 32

| goals1 = 35

| goals2 = 34

| goals3 = 9

| goals4 = 6

| goals5 = 8

| goals6 = 12

| goals7 = 7

| goals8 = 4

| manageryears1 = 1980–1982

| managerclubs1 = Millwall

}}

Peter Thomas Anderson (born 31 May 1949) is an English former football midfielder and manager.

Club career

Anderson began his career in the Hendon F.C. Academy, turning professional with the club in 1968. In 1970, he transferred to Luton Town. His first match came on 13 February 1971 in a 1–0 victory over Watford. In December 1975, Luton Town sold Anderson to Royal Antwerp in order to prevent banckruptcy.[http://www.lutontown.co.uk/page/ClubHistory/0,,10372~61680,00.html Luton Town: 1974 - 1985] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090312042043/http://www.lutontown.co.uk/page/ClubHistory/0%2C%2C10372~61680%2C00.html |date=12 March 2009 }} In 1978, Anderson moved to the San Diego Sockers of the North American Soccer League. He played eleven matches, scoring six goals off two hat tricks, before a midseason transfer to the Tampa Bay Rowdies. The Rowdies advanced all the way to Soccer Bowl '78. He played in Tampa for three outdoor and two NASL indoor seasons. In the fall of 1978, he went on loan to Sheffield United, but broke his collar bone late in the English season and missed all of the 1979 NASL season, except for six playoff games and Soccer Bowl '79. The following March, Anderson scored the title-clinching goal in a mini-game tie-breaker for the Rowdies versus Memphis in the 1980 NASL Indoor Championship Finals.{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19800303&id=t3FQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=I1oDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4715,2996499&hl=en|title=Rowdies slam to No. 1|work=St. Petersburg Times|date=3 March 1980|author=Dave Scheiber}} In 1980, Millwall hired Anderson as player-manager. In 1982, the team released him and he finished his career with Hendon before returning to live in the United States.

In 1997, he founded Bayshore Technologies in Tampa Bay.[https://archive.today/20120910221333/http://www.sbnonline.com/Local/Article/13674/81/0/Team_player.aspx?Category=119 How Peter Anderson runs Bayshore Technologies Inc. like one of his soccer teams]

Honors

References

External links

[http://www.hendonfc.net/Squad?method=view&id=715 Hendon F.C.: Peter Anderson]
"The PFA Premier & Football League Players' Records 1946-1998" (edited and compiled by Barry J. Hugman 1998) {{ISBN|1-85291-585-4}}
[http://nasljerseys.com/Players/A/Anderson.Peter.htm NASL stats]
[http://mytampabayrowdies.blogspot.com/2009/09/rowdies-press-photos-auguste-robb.html Tampa Bay Rowdies: Peter Anderson]
[http://www.btfl.com Bayshore Technologies]

Category:1949 births

Category:Living people

Category:English football managers

Category:English men's footballers

Category:English expatriate men's footballers

Category:Hendon F.C. players

Category:Luton Town F.C. players

Category:Millwall F.C. managers

Category:Millwall F.C. players

Category:North American Soccer League (1968–1984) indoor players

Category:North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players

Category:Belgian Pro League players