Terry Gennoe is a former footballer and is currently the first team goalkeeping coach at Aston Villa

Aston Villa F.C.

Aston Villa Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Witton, Birmingham. The club was founded in 1874 and have played at their current home ground, Villa Park, since 1897. Aston Villa were founder members of The Football League in 1888. They were also founder...

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Playing career

Terry Gennoe began his career at Bury

Bury F.C.

Bury Football Club is an association football team based in Bury, Greater Manchester. The team currently play in League One. The club's nickname is The Shakers which was bestowed upon them by club chairman JT Ingham, an industrialist and ironmonger of the late 1890s.-Formation of the club and the...

,he moved to Halifax Town making 78 league appearances, then to Southampton

Southampton F.C.

Southampton Football Club is an English football team, nicknamed The Saints, based in the city of Southampton, Hampshire. The club gained promotion to the Championship from League One in the 2010–2011 season after being relegated in 2009. Their home ground is the St Mary's Stadium, where the club...

 (where he played against Nottingham Forest

Nottingham Forest F.C.

Nottingham Forest Football Club is an English Association Football club based in West Bridgford, Nottingham, that plays in the Football League Championship...

 in the 1979 League Cup Final

1979 Football League Cup Final

The 1979 Football League Cup Final took place on 17 March 1979 at Wembley Stadium. It was the nineteenth Football League Cup final and the thirteenth to be played at Wembley. It was contested between Nottingham Forest and Southampton. Forest were the hot favourites to win being the holders of the...

, and also made 36 league appearances for the club, then onto Crystal Palace

Crystal Palace F.C.

Crystal Palace Football Club are an English Football league club based in South Norwood, London. The team plays its home matches at Selhurst Park, where they have been based since 1924. The club currently competes in the second tier of English Football, The Championship.Crystal Palace was formed in...

 (on loan), making 3 league appearances, before moving to Blackburn Rovers

Blackburn Rovers F.C.

Blackburn Rovers Football Club is an English professional association football club based in the town of Blackburn, Lancashire. The team currently competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football....

, where he made 289 league appearances in his decade at the club. He still holds the club record for the most league appearances by a Rovers goalkeeper. Brad Friedel

Brad Friedel

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 left Blackburn after 8 seasons in 2008, having made 287 league appearances, just two matches short of Gennoe's club record.

Coaching career

Gennoe hung up his gloves in 1991 but continued as a goalkeeping coach at Ewood Park

Ewood Park

Ewood Park is a football stadium in the English town of Blackburn, Lancashire, and is the home of Blackburn Rovers Football Club — one of the founder members of the Football League and Premier League. Rovers have played there since they moved from Leamington Street in the summer of 1890. The...

. His 16 year stint at Rovers ended over a contract dispute in 1997 but he was soon back working for Kenny Dalglish and with Shay Given at Newcastle United

Newcastle United F.C.

Newcastle United Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear. The club was founded in 1892 by the merger of Newcastle East End and Newcastle West End, and has played at its current home ground, St James' Park, since the merger...

. Gennoe left Tyneside

Tyneside

Tyneside is a conurbation in North East England, defined by the Office of National Statistics, which is home to over 80% of the population of Tyne and Wear. It includes the city of Newcastle upon Tyne and the Metropolitan Boroughs of Gateshead, North Tyneside and South Tyneside — all settlements on...

 in 1999 to take up a similar post at Celtic

Celtic F.C.

Celtic Football Club is a Scottish football club based in the Parkhead area of Glasgow, which currently plays in the Scottish Premier League. The club was established in 1887, and played its first game in 1888. Celtic have won the Scottish League Championship on 42 occasions, most recently in the...

 where he remained until 2005.

On 4 July 2006, Gennoe returned to Newcastle United for a second spell.
In September 2011, Gennoe returned after three and a half years out of the game to be the new first team goalkeeping coach at Villa Park

Villa Park

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, replacing Rafa Gonzalez. He was reunited with Shay Given, who he had previously coached at Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United.

External links

• Profile at Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Database