Ivor Broadis

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Ivor Broadis
Personnel
Surname Ivan Arthur Broadis
birthday December 18, 1922
place of birth Isle of Dogs ,  England
date of death April 12, 2019
size 175 cm
position Half-striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1946-1949 Carlisle United 91 (52)
1949-1951 Sunderland AFC 79 (25)
1951-1953 Manchester City 74 (10)
1953-1955 Newcastle United 42 (15)
1955-1959 Carlisle United 159 (32)
1959-1961 Queen of the South 63 (20)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1951-1954 England 14 ( 08)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1946-1949 Carlisle United
1 Only league games are given.

Ivan Arthur "Ivor" Broadis (born December 18, 1922 in Isle of Dogs , † April 12, 2019 ) was an English football player and coach . As a technically gifted and agile half-striker , he was particularly known for his involvement with third division club Carlisle United in addition to his first division stations AFC Sunderland , Manchester City and Newcastle United . There he was already a coach at the age of 23 and thus still holds the record in English professional football as the youngest person in charge of sport. The 14-time England national team player took part in the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland and scored two goals in three games.

Athletic career

Club career

Career start in Carlisle (1946–1949)

As with many young English soccer talents who were born around 1920, Broadis was initially unable to start a professional career due to the Second World War . Instead, he served as a lieutenant and navigator in the Royal Air Force , completing 500 flight hours without being involved in direct combat operations. During the war he acted in football as a guest player for several prominent clubs. This included Tottenham Hotspur and during the time for the "Spurs" he received his now known nickname "Ivor" when someone in charge "misheard" the correct first name Ivan and developed a momentum in this regard.

At the end of the war, Broadis was transferred to Crosby-on-Eden near Carlisle in the English north-west. There they were aware of his footballing skills and in order to make his engagement with a third division club palatable (offers from the top division), Carlisle United lured the 23-year-old into the position of player -coach in August 1946 . Broadis accepted and is still the youngest coach in English professional football in the top four divisions. In the following two and a half years Broadis developed positively as a half-striker with 52 goals in 91 league games . Since the sporting ambitions in Carlisle remained modest, he moved to the first division AFC Sunderland in January 1949 . He had given himself the transfer clearance and the negotiated transfer fee of 18,000 pounds satisfied the parties involved. Sunderland was preferred to clubs like Blackburn Rovers , Manchester City and Preston North End .

First division stations: Sunderland, Manchester and Newcastle (1949–1955)

Although Broadis played from then on with the "Black Cats", he lived and trained in Carlisle under his successor Bill Shankly . Broadis later largely attributed Shankly to the fact that in the following years he became one of the top performing and most dangerous English players and candidates for the national team. Broadis played in the top division for more than six years and in Sunderland he stood at the side of national players such as Len Shackleton , Dickie Davis , Willie Watson and Trevor Ford . He scored 27 goals in 84 competitive games, but he was not granted a major title win. Broadis found the missed championship in the 1949/50 season as particularly bitter and there the 2-1 defeat against the later relegated Manchester City before the end of the season - with Broadis as a substitute center forward. In the end, Sunderland slipped to third place in the final table and was only one point behind the champions Portsmouth FC and runner-up Wolverhampton Wanderers . Third place, despite everything, was the highest ranking in Broadis' career. He delivered one of his best performances on Boxing Day 1950 against Manchester United with three goals for a 5-3 away win.

In October 1951, Broadis moved to the club that had spoiled his championship dreams. Manchester City, which had since returned to the First Division, signed him for the transfer fee of £ 25,000. Just one day later he made his debut in the team of Les McDowall against Tottenham Hotspur (2-1) and after two more weeks the club signed another striker in Don Revie . McDowall saw in the two offensive forces a complementary duo, but the two did not live up to the high expectations. According to both actors, the main reason for this was that they preferred the game from the depths and not in the “front line”, and they often got in each other's way in practice. There were also different styles, which expressed themselves in the fact that Broadis was more noticeable for its speed, while Revie needed space and time to put on his game. The result for Broadis was the comparatively low goal rate of twelve goals from 79 competitive games in just under two years. Off the pitch, he gained his first journalistic experience in Manchester as a columnist for the Manchester Evening News .

In 1953 Broadis went to Newcastle United for a transfer fee of £ 20,000 . In the team of the "Magpies" were players like Jackie Milburn , Len White , Ronnie Simpson , Bobby Mitchell , Frank Brennan and Ivor Allchurch and as in his previous stations Broadis knew how to please Newcastle with his technical skills. When the club won the FA Cup in 1955 , Broadis had missed the final against Manchester City (3-1) after a disagreement with coach Norman Smith .

Return to Carlisle and end of career (1955–1961)

In July 1955 Broadis returned to Carlisle, where he continued to assist as a Kotrainer until July 1959. The last active station was the Scottish club Queen of the South , not far from Carlisle across the border. In the second division, he played for promotion to the top division in two years, but missed it - in the first season 1959/60 in third place with only one point behind Dundee United . In the two years up to the end of his career in 1961, he continued to act in the position of the left forward striker. After the active career, Broadis worked in the journalistic field for 45 years.

English national team

Despite the only moderate success at Manchester City, Broadis came during his time there to the first A international for England. The debut on November 28, 1951 against Austria ended at home in Wembley Stadium with a 2-2 draw. He played a total of fourteen A-internationals by 1954, in which he scored eight goals. In the memorable 7-1 defeat against Hungary on May 23, 1954 , he was the scorer of the only English goal; the first edition in November 1953 (3: 6 at home) had taken place without Broadis.

Broadis was also part of the English squad at the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland and in the three games up to the elimination in the quarter-finals against Uruguay (2-4) he scored two goals - both against Belgium (4-4). After the tournament, his international career ended. Further missions should not follow.

literature

  • Paul Harrison: Carlisle United - The Complete Record . Breedon Books, Derby 2008, ISBN 978-1-85983-640-8 , pp. 173, 229 .
  • Hayes, Dean P .: England! England! The Complete Who's Who of Players since 1946 . Sutton Publishing, 2004, ISBN 0-7509-3234-1 , pp. 64-65 .

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personal data
SURNAME Broadis, Ivor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Broadis, Ivan Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Isle of Dogs
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 2019