Stephen Roger Bruce is an English professional football manager and former player who played as a centre-back. He is the current manager of West Ham United and West Bromwich Albion. In January 1979, Bruce was selected to represent the England youth team, and he wentOn to gain eight caps. He came close to making his debut for the senior team in May 1979 but decided at the last minute that he was not yet ready to handle the pressure. He eventually made his senior debut against Luton Town in August 1979, winning the club’s Player of the Year award at the end of the 1979–80 season.
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Stephen Roger Bruce is an English professional football manager and former player who played as a centre-back. Born in Corbridge, Northumberland, he was a promising schoolboy footballer but was rejected by several professional clubs. He was on the verge of quitting the game altogether when he was offered a trial with Gillingham. Bruce was offered an apprenticeship and went on to play more than 200 games for the club before joining Norwich City in 1984. In 1987, he moved to Manchester United, with whom he achieved great success, winning twelve trophies including three Premier League titles, three FA Cups, one League Cup and the European Cup Winners’ Cup. He also became the first English player of the 20th century to captain a team to the Double. Bruce began his managerial career with Sheffield United, and spent short periods of time managing Huddersfield Town, Wigan Athletic and Crystal Palace before joining Birmingham City in 2001. He twice led Birmingham to promotion to the Premier League during his tenure of nearly six years, but resigned in 2007 to begin a second spell as manager of Wigan. At the end of the 2008–09 season he resigned to take over as boss of Sunderland, a post he held until he was dismissed in November 2011. In July 2016 he was appointed manager of Hull City and led the club to two promotions to thePremier League, as well as the 2014 FA Cup Final, before leaving in July 2016. In February 2019, he took over at Sheffield Wednesday and left in July that year to take up the role of manager of Newcastle United.
He is the current manager of West Ham United and West Bromwich Albion. Bruce is a keen supporter of Newcastle and used to sneak into St James’ Park to watch the team play. He said: ‘I have always been a Newcastle lad and when I was a kid, I crawled under the turnstiles to get in to try and save a bob or whatever it was. They were my team, I went to support them as a boy and being a Geordie it’s in-bred, you follow the club still the same today.’ He has been described as one of the best English players of the 1980s and 1990s never to play for his country at full international level. In January 1979, Bruce was selected to represent the England youth team, and he wentOn to gain eight caps, participating in the 1980 UEFA European Under 18 Championship. He came close to making his debut for the senior team in May 1979 but decided at the last minute that he was not yet ready to handle the pressure of the occasion. He eventually made his senior debut against Luton Town in August 1979, winning the club’s Player of the Year award at the end of the 1979–80 season. He has twice voted into the Professional Footballers’ Association’s Third Division Team of the year and was twice voted twice into the Football Association’s Professional Association’s Footballer’s Year Team of The Year. Bruce attended Benfield School and Wallsend Boys Club.
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