Albert Quixall

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Albert Quixall
Personnel
Surname Albert Quixall
birthday August 9, 1933
place of birth Sheffield ,  England
size 173 cm
position Half-forward (right)
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1950-1958 Sheffield Wednesday 241 (63)
1958-1964 Manchester United 165 (50)
1964-1966 Oldham Athletic 36 (11)
1966-1967 Stockport County 13 0(0)
1967 Altrincham FC 3 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1953-1954 England B 3 0(0)
1953-1955 England 5 0(0)
1956 England U-23 1 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Albert Quixall (born August 9, 1933 in Sheffield ) is a retired English football player . As a tech-savvy right half -forward, he was considered one of the greatest talents in English football in the 1950s. The 1954 World Cup participant was only rarely able to fulfill his hopes after the move from Sheffield Wednesday to Manchester United, which was associated with great expectations, with the exception of the 1963 Cup victory , and at just 31 years of age he let his career in the lower classes end.

Athletic career

Sheffield Wednesday (1950-1958)

Quixall demonstrated his talent early on when he played twice in the English national school team. The move into professional football was not long in coming, although he had worked as an apprentice carpenter in the company of a club's management member before signing the first contract player contract in August 1950 at Sheffield Wednesday . On February 24, 1951, he made his debut against Chelsea in a first division game and scored a goal at 2-2 straight away. As a tech-savvy right half- forward, he acted alongside the right winger Alan Finney , who, like Quixall, was just 17 years old. In the following years, both played a major role in the right offensive side of the "Owls" and after relegation in 1951 Quixall contributed 26 league appearances and three hits to the direct resurgence in 1952 .

From then on Quixall also developed into one of the most popular players in the First Division . The blonde and very boyish-looking teenager was characterized by very good ball control and high game intelligence. A good two months after his 20th birthday, he played his first international A match for England - from March 1953 to May 1954 he had previously proven himself in three games in the B selection. The debut on October 10, 1953 against Wales ended with a 3-1 win and the game, which took place in the context of the British Home Championship , was also a qualifier for the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland . For the World Cup tournament itself he was also nominated after he had made a major contribution to Sheffield's semi-finals in the FA Cup in the 1953/54 season . However, there was no use at the World Cup itself, and Quixall's fourth and fifth A international match was only to follow in May 1955 - no more followed.

A first decisive sporting setback was the descent from the top English league in 1955 , but in the following season 1955/56 Quixall showed himself again in outstanding form, like his 17 league goals on the way to the second division championship (and thus the immediate return to the First Division) demonstrated. In the following year he ensured safe relegation with 22 championship goals and with a total of 24 goals he was the best goalscorer of his team. The sporting prospects were clouded for him in Sheffield, however, and after the third relegation in 1958 , the club management gave the clearance for a club change. Numerous prominent first division clubs showed interest and the new British record transfer fee of 45,000 pounds was awarded to Manchester United in September 1958 .

Manchester United and career end (1958-1967)

Quixall was coach Matt Busby's first signing after the Munich plane disaster in February 1958 , in which eight United players were killed. Although Quixall initially no longer radiated the previous goal threat and only scored four league goals, he was still an important part of the newly built team, which surprisingly won the runner-up in 1959 . With seven league games without a win at the beginning of the season, it did not look like such a turnaround, which was then expressed in only two defeats from 23 games.

In the following four years until 1963 he found his scoring danger again, scored in three seasons each "double-digit" and in 1963 he won the FA Cup, the first (and only) major trophy ("Major Trophy") of his career. Shortly thereafter, however, his time in Manchester ended, after which, after mostly mediocre performances in the league, the 4-0 defeat in the Charity Shield against Everton played a significant role - he was then taken out of the team by Busby, like Johnny Giles and David Herd . At the same time, Quixall's inconsistency was decisive for the sporting decline. He had the reputation that he no longer knew how to use his great playing skills when an opponent was tough on him. At times there was also great nervousness. After the debacle against Everton, Quixall finally asked for a club change and Manchester United let him move to third division Oldham Athletic for £ 7,000 in October 1964 .

The promising professional career ended somewhat disappointingly in the third division and from July 1966 at Stockport County in the fourth division before he let his active time in amateur football at FC Altrincham end in 1967 . Outside of sports, Quixall then worked with his own business in the field of scrap metal recycling.

Title / Awards

literature

  • Brodie, John & Dickinson, Jason: Sheffield Wednesday - The Complete Record . DB Publishing, 2011, ISBN 978-1-85983-973-7 , pp. 200-201 .
  • Ponting, Ivan: Manchester United - Player by Player . Hamlyn, 1998, ISBN 0-600-59496-3 , pp. 49 .
  • Hayes, Dean P .: England! England! The Complete Who's Who of Players since 1946 . Sutton Publishing, 2004, ISBN 0-7509-3234-1 , pp. 70-71 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "England - International Results B-Team - Details" (RSSSF)
  2. ^ "England - U-23 International Results- Details" (RSSSF)
personal data
SURNAME Quixall, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Sheffield