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Keith Edwin Bertschin (born 25 August 1956) is a former professional footballer who is currently a first team coach at Hull City. Bertschin, a striker, began his professional career with Ipswich Town (1973–1977), before playing for Birmingham City (1977–1981), Norwich City (1981–1982; 1982–1984), Stoke City (1984–1987), Sunderland (1987–1988), Walsall (1988–1990), Chester City (1990–1991) and Aldershot (1991–1992). He also played non-League football and had a short spell playing in the United States with the Jacksonville Tea Men in 1982. ==Playing career== Bertschin was born in Enfield and began his career with Barnet before joining Ipswich Town in 1973. He made a perfect start to professional football scoring on his debut scoring the winning goal in a 2–1 victory over Arsenal in April 1976. He scored again two days later against West Ham United. He became a full member of the squad in 1976–77 scoring six goals in 30 appearances as Ipswich finished in 3rd position. Bertschin joined Birmingham City in July 1977 for a fee of £135,000.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.tmwmtt.com/sql/players/profile.phtml?fullname=Keith+Bertschin )〕 He spent four seasons at St Andrew's making 143 appearances scoring 41 goals and helped the club gain promotion in 1979–80. Bertschin joined Norwich City in August 1981 and helped the Canaries gain promotion to the First Division in 1981–82. He scored twice against his old club Birmingham in a 5–1 victory earning Norwich their first victory of the 1982–83 season.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/sport/top_flight_talk_2_7535/magic_moment_1982_keith_bertschin_scores_twice_as_norwich_city_record_first_victory_on_return_to_division_one_1_1510535 )〕 He spent the summer of 1982 playing in the United States for Jacksonville Tea Men. Bertschin left Carrow Road in November 1984 to join Stoke City.〔 Stoke were rock bottom of the table when Bertschin joined in 1984–85 and he could do little to prevent the side failing to an embarrassing relegation which saw Stoke go down with a then record low points tally. In 1985–86 had a fine season top-scoring with 23 goals, 19 coming in the league and he won the player of the year award.〔 Unfortunately for Stoke he was their only consistent goalscorer and the side finished in a mid-table position of 10th.〔 He scored eight goals in 27 appearance in 1986–87 before he was sold to Sunderland in March 1987.〔 He couldn't prevent Sunderland being relegated but played a major role in 1987–88 which saw the Black Cats win the Third Division title. Bertschin ended his professional career at Walsall, Chester City and Aldershot before dropping into non-league football.〔 Bertschin played for Solihull Borough, Evesham United and was a member of the Barry Town team which won the Welsh Cup in 1994 with a 2–1 victory against Cardiff City. He then went on to play for Worcester City, Hednesford Town, Tamworth and finally Stafford Rangers.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Keith Bertschin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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