Alf Ramsey

Sir Alf Ramsey
Personnel
Surname	Alfred Ernest Ramsey
birthday	January 22, 1920
place of birth	London ,  England
date of death	April 28, 1999
Place of death	Ipswich ,  England
position	Defense
Juniors
Years	station
1940-1943	Portsmouth FC
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1943-1949	Southampton FC	90 0(8)
1949-1955	Tottenham Hotspur	226 (24)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1948-1953	England	32 ( 03)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1955-1963	Ipswich Town
1963-1974	England
1977-1988	Birmingham City
1 Only league games are given.

Sir Alfred Ernest Ramsey (born January 22, 1920 in Dagenham , Essex , † April 28, 1999 in Ipswich ) was an English football player and coach . He became internationally known as the coach who led the English national soccer team to victory at the 1966 World Cup . In 1967 he was knighted.

career

From 1963 to 1974 he coached the English national soccer team, with which he took part in two soccer world championships. At the soccer world championship in 1966 in his own country he was world champion with the English team . At the 1970 World Cup in Mexico , he and his team were eliminated in the quarter-finals against the team from the Federal Republic of Germany. After the English team had failed to qualify for the 1974 World Cup in the Federal Republic of Germany, the English Football Association relieved him of his position as manager of the national team.

As a player he was active for Southampton FC and Tottenham Hotspur . From 1948 to 1953 he played 32 games for the English national team, in which he scored three goals, all from penalties. In qualifying for the 1950 World Cup in Brazil, he had played in the 1-0 win on April 15, 1950 against Scotland as a right-back alongside John Aston . In Brazil, the Tottenham Hotspur defender played all three World Cup games against Chile, the USA and Spain. As a trainer, he first worked from 1955 for Ipswich Town . With this club he succeeded in the 1961/62 season as a climber to win the championship title in the English Football League . Not least because of this remarkable success, he was appointed manager of the English national team by the English football association FA in 1963 .

In 1967, Alf Ramsey was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II as a Knight Bachelor , making him only the second soccer player after Sir Stanley Matthews , who received this honor in 1965, who was allowed to call himself "Sir". Sir Alf Ramsey had the famous saying: "Never change a winning team." Ramsey had been a member of the Freemasons' Association since 1951 .

Achievements (title)

• English champions : 1950/51 (as a player with Tottenham Hotspur)
• English champion : 1961/62 (as coach with Ipswich Town)
• World Champion : 1966 (as coach with England)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Article "The Beautiful Game" by Patrick Kidd and Matthew Scanlan, published in "Freemasonry Today," No. 11, summer 2010

Web links

Commons : Alf Ramsey  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Alf Ramsey in the database of soccerbase.com (English)
• Alf Ramsey in the database of soccerbase.com (English)
• Sir Alf Ramsey in the Football Hall of Fame ( Memento June 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive )