Freddie Goodwin (soccer player, 1933)

Freddie Goodwin
Personnel
Surname	Frederick Goodwin
birthday	June 28, 1933
place of birth	Heywood ,  England
date of death	19th February 2016
Place of death	Gig Harbor ,  United States
position	Outrunner
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1953-1960	Manchester United	95 (7)
1960-1964	Leeds United	107 (2)
1964-1966	Scunthorpe United	6 (1)
1967	New York Generals	1 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1964-1967	Scunthorpe United (player-manager)
1967-1968	New York Generals
1968-1970	Brighton & Hove Albion
1970-1975	Birmingham City
1976-1988	Minnesota kicks
1980-1981	Minnesota kicks
1 Only league games are given.

Frederick "Freddie" Goodwin (born June 28, 1933 in Heywood , † February 19, 2016 in Gig Harbor , Washington , United States ) was an English football player and coach.

Athletic career

Goodwin joined Manchester United in 1953 . After his debut in the First Division in 1954, he was primarily a supplementary player in 1956 and 1957 in the club's championship team, which went down in football history as Busby Babes . He was not one of the victims of the Munich Air Disaster in 1958 , as coach Matt Busby had not nominated him for the European Cup game in Belgrade. As a result, it was used more often, but in the spring of 1960 they parted ways.

Goodwin signed on with league rivals Leeds United , whom he should support in the relegation battle. By the end of the season he played ten championship games, but the club rose at the end of the 1959/60 season in the Second Division . There he remained loyal to the club and was a regular in the defense line alongside Jack Charlton before the young Norman Hunter ousted him after his debut in 1962. It was only after an injury to Charlton that he returned to the starting line-up before he had to end his high-class career in 1964 after a multiple broken leg caused by John Charles in an FA Cup game against Cardiff City .

As a player-coach, Goodwin moved to Scunthorpe United in the Third Division in December 1964 and ended his active career after six league appearances. In 1967 he moved to the United States to coach the New York Generals in the National Professional Soccer League to promote football there. He also ran into a game. In the following year he looked after the team in the North American Soccer League , before he returned to England and took over the coaching position at the third division side Brighton & Hove Albion . In 1970 he moved to the second division side Birmingham City , which he led to the First Division in 1972. There he discovered Trevor Francis , who later went down in English football history when he moved to Nottingham Forest as the first player to receive a £ 1 million transfer fee. After his resignation in 1975, he returned to the United States in 1976 for two years as coach of the Minnesota Kicks . In 1980 he temporarily took over the club again. He then settled permanently in the United States, where he ran a travel agency and as president of the Minnesota Kicks and coach of the Tacoma Stars .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Freddie Goodwin in the barryhugmansfootballers.com database. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
2. ↑ Freddie Goodwin: Manchester United 'Busby Babe' dies online, English
3. ↑ Freddie Goodwin
4. ↑ Freddie Goodwin