A five time Premier League title winner with Manchester United under the legendary Sir Alex Ferguson and a Premier League Golden Boot winner in 1994, Andy scored 289 goals in a glittering career that also included representing England at four different levels from U-20 right up to the full senior side.
Andrew Alexander Cole (born 15 October 1971) is an English former professional footballerwho played as a striker. His professional career lasted from 1988 to 2008, and is mostly remembered for his time with Manchester United, who paid a British record transfer fee to sign him from Newcastle United. Cole spent six years with Manchester United and won nine trophies, including five Premier League titles and the Treble of the Premier League, FA Cupand UEFA Champions League in 1999.
As well as Manchester United and Newcastle United, Cole also played in the top division of English football for Arsenal, Blackburn Rovers, Fulham, Manchester City, Portsmouth and Sunderland, as well as in The Football League for Bristol City, Birmingham City, Burnley and Nottingham Forest. He is the fourth-highest goalscorer in Premier League history with 187 goals, and used to hold the Premier League records for most goals scored in a 42-game season (34), the fastest player to score 50 goals (65 matches), and the first player to top both the Premier League’s goalscoring and assist charts in the same season (1993–94).[3]
Cole has the distinction of having won every top-level team competition in English football at least once, as well as the primary European competition, the UEFA Champions League. As an individual he has won the PFA Young Player of the Year award. Cole was capped 15 times for the England national team between 1995 and 2001, scoring once against Albania in a 2002 FIFA World Cup qualifier.[4]
In August 2009, Cole was hired by his former Manchester United and England teammate, Milton Keynes Dons manager Paul Ince, to coach the club’s forwards on an initially temporary basis.[39] However, one week later, Cole agreed to spend at least two days a week working on finishing with the forwards at Huddersfield Town, under his former Newcastle United and Fulham teammate Lee Clark.[40] In December 2010, Cole was back at Manchester United, working at the Carrington training ground while finishing his coaching badges.[41] In October 2019, Cole was named as forward and attack coach assisting manager, Sol Campbell at Southend United.[42] On 30 June 2020, manager Campbell and his three assistants including Cole left the club by mutual consent.[43]
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