Kevin Campbellformer Arsenal and Everton footballer, died at 54 years after “a short illness.” This was reported by the London club, which confirmed the news through an official statement. As reported Mail Sport, his health problems began with a stroke suffered a few months ago. Campbell developed kidney failure and his weight decreased rapidly (about 20 pounds) by the time he died.
“We are devastated to learn that our former striker Kevin Campbell has passed away after a short illness. Kevin was adored by everyone at the club. We are all thinking of his friends and family at this difficult time. Rest in peace, Kevin,” was what the Gunners.
The Toffees They had confirmed that their former player was “very bad” at the beginning of June, although it also emerged that he had assured some former teammates through text messages that he was fine. However, on Saturday came the news that Campbell had tragically passed away in hospital.
“Everyone at Everton is deeply saddened by the death of our former striker Kevin Campbell at the age of just 54. Not only is he a true hero of Goodison Park and an icon of English football, but he is also an incredible person, as anyone who has met him will know. RIP, Super Kev”, was the dedication of the Toffees to his memory.
Campbell became a Merseyside legend for his heroics at Everton, where he spent six years in Goodison Park between 1999 and 2005. He scored 50 goals in 160 appearances and many of his efforts helped ensure the club avoided the threat of relegation at the turn of the millennium. The striker also enjoyed success with his boyhood club Arsenal, where he won the FA Cup and League Cup and made more than 200 appearances. With the Londoners he won an English league and the European Cup Winners’ Cup. In total, Campbell scored 107 goals in 394 English top-flight appearances and also played for Nottingham Forest, West Brom, Cardiff City, Leyton Orient and Leicester City. He also had a brief spell in Türkiye with Trabzonspor after leaving the City Ground in 1998.
Meanwhile, he added four games with the Under 21 team and scored a goal. He is the top scorer in the Premier League without having played an official match with the senior team (in 1992 he was a substitute in a friendly against Spain). After hanging up his boots, he worked for a while as a commentator on the network Sky Sports. Your son Tyrese Campbell continues the family legacy in English football, most recently playing for Stoke City in the Championship last season.
“I am absolutely devastated to hear the news about Kev, thinking of all his family and friends. “Kev was a great teammate but, more importantly, a brilliant person who helped me a lot in my early years,” was what he said. Wayne Rooneywho had him as a teammate at Everton when he was starting out in professional football.
THE COMPLETE STATEMENT FROM ARSENAL
Everyone at Arsenal Football Club is devastated to learn of the death of our beloved former player Kevin Campbell, aged 54. An Arsenal supporter since childhood, Kevin joined our youth team in 1985, when he was 15 years old, and soon began to demonstrate his incredible eye for goal, becoming the most prolific young striker in the country.
He won the FA Youth Cup in 1988, scoring 61 goals that season in 53 appearances at youth and reserve level. His first team debut came shortly afterwards, at the age of 18, ironically against Everton, whom he would also represent with great distinction later in his career. After successful loan spells at Leyton Orient and Leicester City, his breakthrough at Arsenal came in the 1990/91 season. Playing up front with Alan Smith and Paul Merson, he scored eight goals in a 10-game run at the end of the season to help clinch the league title, when he was still 21 years old. By then an England Under-21 international, he had played an important role in our title-winning team, which only lost one league game all season.
He linked up with new signing Ian Wright the following campaign, again reaching double figures in goals, and in 1992/93 he added two more trophies to his haul, winning the FA Cup and League Cup (the first time he had done so). toward). achieved in English football.
Kevin’s most prolific season for us was 1993/94, when the powerful and speedy striker scored 19 goals, including the winning goal in the European Cup Winners’ Cup semi-final against Paris Saint-Germain. He played the full 90 minutes of the final against Parma, as we tasted European glory on an unforgettable night in Copenhagen. After one more season at the club, Kevin’s Arsenal career ended in 1995, when he moved to Nottingham Forest. In total he played 228 times with our first team and scored 59 goals. That puts him 40th on our all-time scoring list, level with one of his predecessors in the number 7 jersey, Liam Brady, and one ahead of current starter and youth teammate Bukayo. Saka.
After three seasons with Forest, where they won the First Division title in 1998, Kevin had a brief spell with Turkish side Trabzonspor, before joining Everton. Kevin played over 150 times for the Merseyside club, also becoming a fan favorite there, not least because of his scoring streak at the end of 1998/99 that helped his team avoid relegation. He was named Premier League Player of the Month in April of that season. He concluded his playing days at West Bromwich Albion and Cardiff City, and later enjoyed a successful career in the media, a role that would often bring him back to Arsenal, where he was always warmly received by his former colleagues. . He remained a dear and cherished friend to many at the club, always maintaining the close ties that began in his early days at Highbury. Kevin’s son Tyrese continues the family legacy in English football; The striker most recently played for Stoke City in the Championship last season. Our thoughts are with all of Kevin’s family at this incredibly difficult time.
