Alan Ball (soccer player, 1945)

Alan Ball
Personnel
Surname	James Alan Ball, Jr.
birthday	May 12, 1945
place of birth	Farnworth ,  England
date of death	April 25, 2007
Place of death	Warsash ,  England
size	168 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
1960-1961	Bolton Wanderers
1961–1962	Blackpool FC
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1962-1966	Blackpool FC	116 (40)
1966-1971	Everton FC	208 (66)
1971-1976	Arsenal FC	177 (45)
1976-1988	Southampton FC	132 0(9)
1978-1979	Philadelphia Fury	34 0(5)
1979-1980	Vancouver Whitecaps	38 (10)
1980-1981	Blackpool FC	30 0(5)
1981-1982	Southampton FC	63 0(2)
1982-1983	Eastern AA	12 0(?)
1983-1984	Bristol Rovers	17 0(2)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1965-1975	England	72 0(8)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1980-1981	Blackpool FC
1984-1989	Portsmouth FC
1989-1991	Stoke City
1991-1994	Exeter City
1994-1995	Southampton FC
1995-1996	Manchester City
1998-1999	Portsmouth FC
1 Only league games are given.

James Alan Ball MBE (born May 12, 1945 in Farnworth near Bolton , † April 25, 2007 in Warsash , Hampshire ) was an English football player and coach .

Career

He was the youngest member of the team that defeated the German team in the 1966 final of the Soccer World Cup with 4-2 a.s. He played a total of 72 international matches for the English national football team . He scored 8 goals. He was a tireless ball hauler and driver and often came out of midfield via the right attacking side. When winning the World Cup title in 1966, the variant of coach Alf Ramsey with the "wingless miracle" was one of the main guarantors of winning the title. Without brilliant wingers, Ramsey relied on extremely strong endurance runners on the outside positions in midfield, who were constantly on the move in both directions. Alan Ball on the right and Martin Peters on the left . Together with the strategist, playmaker and also extremely long-distance Bobby Charlton , the two endurance runners on the sidelines fed the strikers Roger Hunt and Geoff Hurst in the middle of the storm. So it was also Ball that gave the cross to 3: 2.

successes

National team

Winning the world title was the greatest success in the career of Alan Ball, who made his debut in the team of Alf Ramsey on May 9, 1965 in Belgrade against Yugoslavia . Alan Ball was also on the ball for England at the 1970 World Cup in Mexico . But with 2: 3 n. V. in the quarter-finals against Germany the premature end point was set. The success of the home World Cup could not be repeated.

society

In his club stations Bolton Wanderers , Blackpool , Everton , Arsenal and Southampton FC but he also get considerable success. With Everton FC he was even able to celebrate winning the championship in 1970. He played a total of 633 top division games and scored 124 goals. At the end of his playing career he played in the NASL with Philadelphia Fury and the Vancouver Whitecaps as well as in Hong Kong , before he then worked as a manager a. a. worked for Manchester City .

death

Alan Ball died on 25 April 2007 in the evening in his garden in Warsash in the county of Hampshire on a heart attack . He left three children (a son and two daughters).

Web links

• Report of death on the BBC homepage
• Alan Ball in the database of weltfussball.de