 England playing forTottenham Hotspur in 1974 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Harold Michael England[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1941-12-02)2 December 1941 (age 83) | ||
| Place of birth | Holywell,Flintshire, Wales | ||
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||
| Position | Defender | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1959–1966 | Blackburn Rovers | 165 | (21) |
| 1966–1975 | Tottenham Hotspur | 300 | (14) |
| 1975–1979 | Seattle Sounders | 106 | (6) |
| 1975–1976 | →Cardiff City (loan) | 40 | (1) |
| 1979–1980 | Cleveland Force (indoor) | 11 | (0) |
| Total | 622 | (42) | |
| International career | |||
| 1962–1974 | Wales | 44 | (4) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1980–1988 | Wales | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Harold Michael EnglandMBE (born 2 December 1941) is a Welsh formerfootballer andmanager.
Playing as acentral defender, England began his career atBlackburn Rovers in 1959, before moving toTottenham Hotspur in July 1966, ultimately winning four major trophies: theFA Cup in 1967, theUEFA Cup in 1972, and theLeague Cup in 1971 and 1973.
He made 44 international appearances forWales over twelve years, scoring 4 goals.[2] He was the youngest ever Wales permanent captain for many years, until superseded byAaron Ramsey in 2011.[3]
He later managed the Wales national team from March 1980 to February 1988. His reign as manager was marked by a series of frustrations, as a team of limited resources, but with talented players such asNeville Southall,Ian Rush,Mark Hughes andMickey Thomas, very narrowly missed out on qualification to a series of major tournaments, including the1982, and1986 FIFA World Cups. Perhaps most agonisingly, Wales only missed out on qualification for theUEFA Euro 1984 by seconds when an injury-time winning goal byLjubomir Radanović forYugoslavia in the final game ofqualifying group 4 againstBulgaria eliminated Wales.
England was sacked as Wales manager on 3 February 1988 after another initially promising attempt to qualify forUEFA Euro 1988 ended in failure. That was to be the final job he would ever have in football. He later managed a nursing home in North Wales, and then owned two nursing homes and ran his own timber business.[4]
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