.jpg) Jimmy Hogan in 1908 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | James Hogan | ||
| Date of birth | (1882-10-16)16 October 1882 | ||
| Place of birth | Nelson, England | ||
| Date of death | 30 January 1974(1974-01-30) (aged 91) | ||
| Place of death | Burnley, England | ||
| Position(s) | Inside forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1902–1903 | Rochdale Town | ? | (?) |
| 1903–1905 | Burnley | 50 | (12) |
| 1905 | Nelson | ? | (?) |
| 1905–1908 | Fulham | 18 | (5) |
| 1908 | Swindon Town | 9 | (9) |
| 1908–1913 | Bolton Wanderers | 54 | (18) |
| Total | 131 | (44) | |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1910–1912 | FC Dordrecht | ||
| 1910 | Netherlands | ||
| 1911–1912 | Wiener Amateur-SV | ||
| 1914–1921 | MTK Budapest | ||
| 1918–1920 | Young Boys Bern | ||
| 1924 | Switzerland | ||
| 1925 | Lausanne Sports | ||
| Dresdner SC | |||
| 1925–1927 | MTK Budapest | ||
| 1931–1932 | Austria Wien | ||
| 1932–1933 | Racing Club de Paris | ||
| 1933–1934 | Lausanne Sports | ||
| 1934–1935 | Fulham | ||
| 1936–1939 | Aston Villa | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
James "Jimmy" Hogan (16 October 1882 – 30 January 1974) was an English football player and coach.[1] He was a notable footballer but his legacy is that he was a pioneer of the game and an innovative coach for teams and national teams acrossEurope.
Hogan's first signing was forBurnley F.C.. In 1905 he left and joinedFulham. Hogan helped Fulham reach the FA Cup semi-final in 1907–08 before joiningSwindon Town and thenBolton Wanderers. In a pre-season tour Bolton beat Dutch club FC Dordrecht 10–0; Hogan promised to return to Dordrecht to"teach those fellows how to play properly".[2]
In 1910 he signed a two-year contract at Dordrecht and improved the team in fitness and ball control. He also introduced the Combination Game. Impressed by his methods, theRoyal Dutch Football Association let Hogan manage theNetherlands in a friendly match againstGermany in October 1910, which they won 2–1. Hogan also briefly coachedWiener Amateur-SV in 1911 and 1912. In 1912, Hogan returned for a final season as a player at Bolton. Then he returned toVienna to coach theAustrian national team.[3]World War I meant that he was interned as a foreign prisoner of war. He was smuggled to the Hungarian border and went toBudapest, where he was allowed to coach atMTK Budapest between 1914 and 1918. Hogan laid the foundations for MTK's domination of Hungarian football, as they won ten domestic titles in a row between 1913-14 and 1924–25. During a brief return to England, he was regarded as a traitor for coaching foreign clubs.
At the end of the First World War he became coach ofYoung Boys Bern until 1920. 1924 he returned to Switzerland as coach of theSwitzerland national team alongside his compatriotTeddy Duckworth and HungarianIzidor Kürschner for the1924 Summer Olympics inParis. Switzerland reached the final but lost 3–0 againstUruguay.
After the Olympics, Hogan coachedLausanne Sports[4] andDresdner SC Then he returned to MTK Budapest between 1925 and 1927.
Hogan next formed a partnership withHugo Meisl in 1931. They were coaching theAustrian national team to success during itsWunderteam period. Between 1932 and 1934, Hogan managedRacing Club de Paris and Lausanne Sports once again before returning to England to manageFulham from 1934. Hogan was sacked after only 31 games.[source?]
Hogan helped coach the Austrian national team at the1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. Austria reached the final but were beaten 2–1 byItaly after extra time.[5] After that he returned to England and coachedAston Villa Arriving at Villa, Hogan outlined his philosophy:"I am a teacher and lover of constructive football with every pass, every kick, every movement an object."[6] He reached the FA Cup semi-final in 1937–38, but was sacked while in hospital withappendicitis just after the outbreak ofWorld War II.
Hogan joinedBrentford as coach in September 1948,[7] before joiningCeltic in the same year.[8] The majority of the players viewed Hogan’s appointment negative. Hogan left Celtic by mutual agreement in 1950. Aston Villa asked him to return. Villa won the 1956–57 FA Cup.
Hogan retired, aged 77, in November 1959, but continued to scout for both Villa and Burnley.[9] Hogan died in 1974 whilst living with his sister's daughter Margaret Melia on Brunshaw Avenue, Burnley.
MTK Budapest
Young Boys Bern
Aston Villa