Jackie Sinclair

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Jackie Sinclair
Personnel
Surname John Evans Wright Sinclair
birthday July 21, 1943
place of birth Culross ,  Scotland
date of death September 2, 2010
Place of death Dollars ,  scotland
position attacking midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1960-1965 Dunfermline Athletic 61 (33)
1965-1968 Leicester City 103 (50)
1967-1970 Newcastle United 43 0(6)
1970-1973 Sheffield Wednesday 101 (14)
1972-1973 →  Chesterfield FC  (loan) 10 0(3)
1973-1975 Dunfermline Athletic 52 0(9)
1975-1976 FC Stenhousemuir 18 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1966 Scotland 1 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

John Evans Wright Sinclair (born July 21, 1943 in Culross , Scotland , † September 2, 2010 in dollars ) was a Scottish football player. Sinclair played in the position of attacking midfielder .

Career

Before joining a professional club, Sinclair played for Blairhall Colliery . Sinclair began his professional career a few days after he turned 17 at Dunfermline Athletic . He played there from 1960 to 1965, completed a total of 61 games and was able to score 33 goals in these. With the Pars he reached the Scottish Cup final in 1965 . In May 1965 he then moved to Leicester City , where he was able to score 50 goals in 103 games from 1965 to 1968. In the mid- 1960s at Dunfermline and Leicester, he scored around every other game, which was an exceptionally high number for a midfielder. In 1967 he moved to Newcastle United , where he played in 43 league games and was able to achieve 6 goals in these. In 1969 he and his team were able to win the title at the Messestädte-Pokal by winning 6-2 against Újpest Budapest in the final. In December 1969 he was transferred to Sheffield Wednesday for David Ford . There he completed 101 games, but was loaned to third division Chesterfield FC in 1972 , where he scored three goals in ten games. After the 1972/73 season he moved to Dunfermline Athletic, where he was able to score nine goals in 52 games. Sinclair ended his career with the Scottish club FC Stenhousemuir .

Sinclair completed his first and only game for the Scottish national football team in a 1-0 draw against Portugal in 1966 . He was also scheduled for the game against Brazil , but had to take a break due to various injury problems.

Private life

Sinclair was married and had a daughter and a son. His uncle Tommy Wright (* 1928), his brother Willie Sinclair (* 1934), his cousin Tommy Wright (* 1966) and his son Chris Sinclair (* 1970) were also professional soccer players. On September 2, 2010, he died the first player of the champion team of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup by Newcastle United in 1969 after a long cancer in dollars .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jackie Sinclair at scottishfa.co.uk
  2. ^ A b Jackie Sinclair RIP football.co.uk, September 3, 2010, accessed June 21, 2012 .
  3. ↑ a b Peter Mann: JACKIE SINCLAIR OBITUARY. fansonline.net, September 3, 2010, accessed June 21, 2012 .
  4. ↑ a b Lee Ryder: Fairs Cup legend Sinclair loses cancer battle. Evening Chronicle, September 2, 2010, accessed June 24, 2012 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e f Ivan Ponting: Jackie Sinclair: Goalscoring winger who helped Newcastle United win their only major trophy of the last half-century. The Independent , September 16, 2010, accessed June 24, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Messestädte-Pokal 1969

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personal data
SURNAME Sinclair, Jackie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sinclair, John Evans Wright (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Culross , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH September 2, 2010
Place of death Dollars , scotland