Bobby Moore

Bobby Moore
Bobby Moore in London in 1966 when receiving the World Cup trophy
Personalia
Surname	Robert Frederick Chelsea Moore
birthday	April 12, 1941
place of birth	Barking , London ,  England
date of death	February 24, 1993
Place of death	London ,  England
position	Defense
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1958-1974	West Ham United	544 (24)
1974-1977	Fulham FC	124 0(1)
1976	San Antonio Thunder	24 0(1)
1978	Seattle Sounders	7 0(0)
1978	Herning Fremad
1983	Carolina lightnin '
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1962-1973	England	108 0(2)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1980	Oxford City
1981-1982	Eastern AA
1984-1986	Southend United
1 Only league games are given.

A statue of Bobby Moore in front of Wembley Stadium .

Robert Frederick Chelsea "Bobby" Moore (born April 12, 1941 in Barking , London , † February 24, 1993 in London) was an English football player .

He was team captain for his hometown club West Ham United for more than ten years and led the English national team in 1966 as captain to win the soccer world championship . Due to his integrity as a sportsman, he is considered one of the most respected English national team captains and one of the world's best defensive players of his time.

Athletic career

Early in his career

As a schoolboy, Moore joined West Ham United in 1956 and, after having previously acted in the youth teams, played his first game for the club's first team on November 8, 1958 against Manchester United . He took over the jersey with the number 6 from his early sponsor Malcolm Allison , who was sick with tuberculosis .

Since Allison could never play again for West Ham - or any other top division team - Moore quickly became a regular. As a playfully accomplished central defender , his strengths were early on in anticipating opposing offensive actions and in good positional play. This clearly differentiated him from the predominant type of central defender, who was characterized by great tackle strength and strengths in the header game. His qualities in the last mentioned areas were at best average, but because of his ability to “read” a game and lead a team - as well as his timing in tackling - he became a world-class defender. Pelé described Moore as arguably the fairest defender he'd played against in his career.

Promotion to the top English player and victory in the European Cup

At the age of only 19, Moore was appointed to the squad of the England U-23 national team for the first time. Due to his breakthrough and athletic promotion at West Ham, he was even appointed a short time later by Walter Winterbottom and the FA's nomination committee during the World Cup preparation period and shortly before the start of the tournament in the squad for the 1962 World Cup finals in Chile in the summer . Moore flew to South America without having previously played an international match for the senior national team. This changed on May 20, 1962 with a 4-0 friendly win against Peru in Lima . Together with Maurice Norman , who also made his debut, he was so impressive that this formation was retained for the tournament itself - up to and including the fourth-final defeat against eventual world champions Brazil in Viña del Mar.

On May 29, 1963, Moore led the national team as captain on the field for the first time in his twelfth international match after Johnny Haynes resigned and his deputy Jimmy Armfield was absent due to an injury. England lost the game against Czechoslovakia 2-4. Armfield then took over the captain's armband again for a short time, until the new coach Alf Ramsey, during a series of friendly matches in the summer of 1964 - England had previously failed to France in the preliminary round of the European Championship in 1964 - permanently awarded the office to Moore.

All in all, 1964 was a very eventful year for Moore. In addition to the new responsibilities as England captain, he won with West Ham United the FA Cup , defeating in the final of the competition in Wembley opponents Preston North End - thanks to a goal by Ronnie Boyce at the last minute - 3: 2nd In addition, Moore, who had testicular cancer , made a full recovery and was voted England's Footballer of the Year by British football journalists . Moore felt it was a personal offense, however, that no official club management member attended the award ceremony on the eve of the cup final, which permanently damaged his relationship with West Ham United.

The cup triumph was the first of Wembley final successes in three consecutive years. In 1965 he won the European Cup Winners' Cup in the same place and beat the German representative TSV 1860 Munich 2-0 after two goals from Alan Sealey . His leading position in the English national team was undisputed after 30 international matches and Ramsey put together a team around him that was to win the World Cup in their own country.

The year 1966 began in a mixed way for Moore. Moore scored his first goal for England in the international match against Poland , which ended 1-1. With West Ham he moved into the final of the League Cup , which was last played this year in a return leg. Although Moore was able to score a goal in the first game, he and his team lost after both games with a total of 3: 5 goals. Two weeks before the start of the World Cup finals, Moore scored the second - and last - national team goal in a friendly against Norway .

The world championship year 1966

The year of great success began with speculation in the British media landscape about an imminent move from Moore to local rivals Tottenham Hotspur . Moore had been falling out for a long time with the management of West Ham United - including coach Ron Greenwood - and so Moore let his contract with West Ham expire after the 1965/66 season. It was only the personal intervention of Alf Ramsey and the prospect that Moore could not have been eligible to play for the World Cup that convinced Moore to talk to Greenwood, in which the two resolved their differences and negotiated a new contract.

The team led by Moore played all of their games during the World Cup at Wembley Stadium and survived the group phase relatively easily, only beating the extremely aggressively playing Argentine team in the quarter-finals and finally in the semifinals the Portuguese , who had become secret favorites , until Germany as the final Opponent waited.

According to Geoff Hurst in his autobiography , the English full-back George Cohen is said to have overheard a meeting between Ramsey and his coaching staff, in which it was considered to forego Moore in the final in favor of the physically stronger Norman Hunter . This surprising consideration - especially against the background that he had not disappointed in the games before and had not shown himself to be distracted by the contract negotiations - had its possible origin in the fact that the German opponent had extremely fast strikers . As a result, it was feared that Moore's lack of speed could have a negative effect. In addition, Hunter, who at that time - although about the same age as Moore - had only completed four international matches, formed a well-established duo with Moore's defensive partner Jack Charlton in the club. Overall, however, this simulation game was discarded and so the captain remained in his team.

In the final itself, England initially fell 0-1 after a goal from Helmut Haller , before Moore was instrumental in the equalization. He was fouled in the middle of the German half of the game by Wolfgang Overath , quickly picked up the ball and crossed to Geoff Hurst, who headed the equalizer - a variant that had previously been rehearsed at West Ham United. With Martin Peters' 2-1 opening goal , another player from Moore's club was involved. However, this was not enough for the victory after 90 minutes, because shortly before the end of regular time Wolfgang Weber was able to achieve the 2-2 - Moore unsuccessfully claimed handball in this action - and thus forced extra time .

There, England first managed the 3-2, which should go down in football history as the Wembley goal . When Moore captured the ball in his own corner of the penalty area just seconds before the end of the game, he did not shoot it out with a free blow, but hit a 35-meter pass to Hurst, which marked the 4: 2 decision with his third hit (the game ended in direct connection).

The pictures of the award ceremony, at which Moore wiped his dirty hands on the way to the podium, shook hands with Queen Elizabeth II and finally received the Jules Rimet Cup from her, finally went around the world.

Moore as a star and role model

After the great success, Moore became a national role model. In the following season, he and two of his team-mates presented the World Cup trophy they had won in all the stadiums where West Ham United was a guest. At the end of 1966 he was the first - and for the next 24 years the only - football player to be awarded the title of Sportsman of the Year in Great Britain . On New Year's Day he was also honored by the Order of the British Empire as "OBE".

Moore now increasingly marketed the extremely positive perception of Moore and its popularity with the public in a number of areas of business activity. He opened a sports shop in Upton Park , Newham - near the home ground of West Ham United - and was with his wife Tina, together with Martin Peters and his wife, in a well-known television commercial for the hospitality sector (“Look in at the local “) To see.

Moore continued to play for West Ham and the England team. At the end of 1966 he completed his 50th international match in the 5-1 victory in the British Home Championship against Wales , which was also a qualifier for the 1968 European Championship in Italy . England finally reached the European Championship semi-finals (according to the rules of the time, only four teams took part in the tournament itself), faced Yugoslavia and lost 1-0 in Florence . As reigning world champions, England did not have to qualify for the next World Cup, and Moore remained a regular in Ramsey's first eleven during that time. Before leaving for South America , where the English team wanted to get used to the altitude before the finals in Mexico , Moore had already been on the national team for the 78th time.

The world championship year 1970

Moore was also to be the English team captain for the 1970 World Cup that followed. In the run-up to the World Cup, Moore was embroiled in a theft affair in which he was accused of stealing a bracelet from a jeweler in Bogotá , Colombia - where the English team was for a preparatory game at the time . A young employee of the businessman claimed that Moore took the bracelet away from a hotel store without eventually paying for it. In retrospect, it was confirmed that Moore had actually gone to the store with Bobby Charlton to choose a present for Charlton's wife. The other allegations turned out to be completely fabricated. Moore was arrested, but released a short time later and traveled with the team to the next friendly game against Ecuador in Quito , where he made his 80th international match in a 2-0 win. When the entire staff flew back to Mexico, a stopover in Colombia had to be made, during which Moore was arrested again and finally placed under house arrest for four days . Only the increasing diplomatic pressure and the weak evidence ensured that Moore was completely relieved and was able to follow his team to Mexico to prepare for the World Cup. A final rehabilitation did not take place until November 7, 1972, when a judge in Bogotà came to the opinion that Moore had been the victim of an attempt at extortion.

Despite this great unrest, Moore was able to lead his team through the preliminary round of the tournament. In the second game against the favorites from Brazil, there was a very memorable scene with Moore when he managed a very precise - yet fair - tackle against Jairzinho , which will be shown on British sports television many years later. Although Brazil won the game, England also made it into the quarter-finals as runners-up, but lost to Germany 2-3 after extra time.

The last few years in top sport

At the end of 1970 Moore was honored for his services to West Ham United with a friendly against Celtic Glasgow (in order to enjoy a - usually tax-free - "testimonial match", in British football roughly at least ten years are the same Association - along with other honorable achievements - taken as a yardstick). But despite his status as an English football idol, Moore caused some controversy during this time due to his own misconduct and lack of discipline. Just before the third round match in the FA Cup against Blackpool FC, he partied the night with teammates Jimmy Greaves , Brian Dear and Clyde Best at a club owned by his friend and former boxer Brian London . His team finally lost the match 4-0 and Moore was fined a week's salary for him. Not infrequently, Moore was seen on a Sunday morning, which is often used for complete regeneration with a day off, on a training ground or in a gym in order to reduce the alcohol consumed from the previous night.

With his 509th use Moore 1973 set a new club record for most games at West Ham United. He had already completed his 100th international match on Valentine's Day - three days earlier - and there spectacularly defeated arch-rivals from Scotland 5-0 at Hampden Park . From the former world championship only Alan Ball and Martin Peters remained in the English team. All the others had in the meantime either been sorted out by Ramsey - although in some cases much younger than Moore - or had announced their resignation.

A sporting low point for him was the qualifying game against Poland in Chorzów for the upcoming 1974 World Cup in Germany . Before the game he explained to the Polish press why the English team was playing in yellow jerseys for the first time: "We want to show that we have combined the English football school with the virtuoso ball art of the Brazilians." own goalkeeper Peter Shilton , later he let Włodzimierz Lubański take the ball away , who was able to score the second goal. Since Moore's form had deteriorated overall, Ramsey did without him in the second leg at Wembley, which England had to win in order to still participate in the final tournament - instead of Poland. The game ended with a 1-1 draw. Moore ended his career for England in the subsequent 1-0 defeat in the friendly against Italy with the 108th international match. This made him - until Peter Shilton later surpassed him - the record national player for his country and had two appearances more than Bobby Charlton. With 90 international matches in the role of England national team captain, he still shares the relevant record with Billy Wright . From June 4, 1973 to June 3, 1978 he was also world record holder and was then replaced by Björn Nordqvist (Sweden).

The time after West Ham

At the beginning of 1974 Moore played in an FA Cup match against Hereford United for the last time for West Ham United. After suffering an injury from that encounter, he left his long-term club on March 14 after 15 years. He became the club's own record holder in terms of the number of competitive games for West Ham United ( Billy Bonds would later overtake him) and the international matches for the English national team.

For £ 25,000 he moved to London's local rivals and second division club Fulham , where he beat West Ham United in his first season in the League Cup. In the FA Cup he moved with his new team to the final and was there again against West Ham. In Moore's last game at Wembley as a professional footballer, however, he lost 2-0.

On May 14, 1977 Moore acted for Fulham against the Blackburn Rovers in his last competitive game on English soil. He then moved to the United States , where he was in 1976 for San Antonio Thunder (24 games, one goal) and 1978 for the Seattle Sounders (seven games) in the NASL . In 1976 he also played his last international games. In a selection from the USA, he faced the then three-time world champions from Brazil as well as Italy and England - the latter team now led by Gerry Francis - in a tournament to mark the 200th anniversary of American Independence Day , both of whom did not play for the 1976 European Football Championship had been able to qualify. The Seattle Sounders were the last club Moore played for as a professional footballer. After that he played briefly in 1978 at the traditional Danish club Herning Fremad and then concentrated mainly on his coaching activities. In 1983 Moore made another flying visit to professional football when he was without a club between his time at Eastern AA and Southend United and during this time appeared at Carolina Lightnin ' in the American Soccer League .

Style of play

Moore was an anticipatory center-back whose great strength lay in anticipating and intercepting opposing passes and crosses. In one-to-one combat, he was primarily calm and wait-and-see before deciding whether to tackle or block at the right moment. At the same time, Moore was a "game-making" central defender who opened the game from his own defense. A striking feature were his high long balls, which he mostly played vertically on his teammates in the storm. Another peculiarity was that even when he was in possession of the ball deep in his own half (even in the penalty area) and under pressure from the opponent, he tried to play the ball out of the defense with a thoughtful pass. He seldom cleared the ball blindly and considered where he wanted to play it before winning the ball.

After football

In 1978 Moore resigned as a professional footballer and then had two only moderately successful coaching engagements at Oxford City and Southend United .

His time after active sport turned out to be as eventful as it was difficult. He failed in his business activities and divorced his wife. His commitment as a columnist for the little-known tabloid Sunday Sport was seen as an indication of his slow decline and quite a few English football fans regretted it very much that the FA football association did not provide the only English football world captain with an appropriate position.

1981 Moore played in John Huston's war film Escape to Victory ( Escape to Victory ) in a supporting role a football player.

In 1990 Moore joined radio station Capital Gold in London as a football expert and commentator and married a second time in December 1991. He underwent emergency surgery in April of the same year because of an acute suspicion of colon cancer . On February 14, 1993, he announced that he had cancer and only three days later commented on an England team game against San Marino . He died seven days after this last public appearance. Bobby Moore was cremated in the Putney Vale Crematorium and interred in the City of London Cemetery and Crematorium in the Garden of Remembrance . He left behind a son and a daughter from his first marriage.

Champions statue

However, his popularity continued even after his death. In 1996, the two English comedians Frank Skinner and David Baddiel wrote the song for the 1996 European Football Championship “ Three Lions ” in relation to Moore's famous defense against Jairzinho “But I still see that tackle by Moore” and set the scene with the former English left-back Stuart Pearce for the accompanying music video. In the same year he was posthumously awarded the FIFA Order of Merit.

In 1998, 250 sports journalists voted him into the FIFA World Cup of the 20th Century .

Moore was inducted into the newly established English "Hall of Fame" in 2002 in recognition of his achievements for English football. Shortly after his death, the new south stand in Upton Park - West Ham United's home stadium in Upton Park - was given the name "Bobby Moore Stand". There is also a statue that recreates the famous photo of the celebration after winning the World Cup, on which Moore with the trophy - together with his teammates Hurst, Peters and Everton FC left-back Ray Wilson - can be seen and carried on his shoulders becomes. In addition, a bronze statue of Moore was erected in front of the main entrance to the new Wembley Stadium.

In November 2003, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the European football association UEFA , Moore was selected by the Football Association for England as the best player of the past 50 years in the list of UEFA Jubilee 52 Golden Players .

successes

• Soccer world champion: 1966
• European Cup Winner: 1965
• FA Cup winner: 1964
• Charity Shield winner: 1964 * * shared title
• British Sportsman of the Year: 1966
• England's Footballer of the Year: 1964
• Dwight D. Eisenhower Trophy : 1963

Web links

Commons : Bobby Moore  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• "Bobby Moore Online"
• Bobby Moore on NASLJerseys.com

Footnotes

1. ↑ bottom right: “Moore finally rehabilitated” . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna November 9, 1972, p. 20 ( The website of the Arbeiterzeitung is currently being redesigned. The linked pages are therefore not available. - Digitized).
2. ↑ Piłka w grze, T.10, p. 5 ( Rzeczpospolita supplement , January 9, 2006)
3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyicd3JsQOw
4. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Bobby Moore
5. ↑ List of FIFA Order of Merit recipients ( memento of the original from September 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on October 25, 2012 (PDF; 71 kB)