Jeff Whitefoot

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Jeff Whitefoot
Personnel
Surname Jeffrey Whitefoot
birthday December 31, 1933
place of birth Cheadle ,  England
position Outrunner
Juniors
Years station
1949-1950 Manchester United
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1950-1957 Manchester United 93 (0)
1957-1958 Grimsby Town 26 (5)
1958-1967 Nottingham Forest 255 (5)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1954 England U-23 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Jeffrey "Jeff" Whitefoot (born December 31, 1933 in Cheadle ) is a former English football player . He was a member of the "Busby Babes" at a young age and won the English championship with Manchester United in 1956 . After losing his regular place to Eddie Colman , he moved to Nottingham Forest and won the FA Cup there in 1959 .

Athletic career

Whitefoot joined Manchester United in 1949 and at the age of just 16, he made his first team debut on April 15, 1950. The home game against eventual champions Portsmouth FC were lost 2-0, but Whitefoot was the youngest player in the club's history at the time. After this single appearance in the 1949/50 season, two more games followed in the 1950/51 season. When "United" won the league title in the 1951/52 season, Whitefoot contributed as an outside runner to three missions in April 1952, which did not qualify for the official receipt of a championship medal. The sporting breakthrough came in the 1953/54 season, when Whitefoot played 39 competitive games. He kept his regular place in the following years and the circumstances seemed favorable that the tech-savvy defensive player would be an integral part of Matt Busby's team for a long time . After 15 league appearances in the first 16 games of the 1955/56 season, he was then replaced by the young Eddie Colman - this year United won the English championship again. A year later, Whitefoot hired in November 1957 at the second division Grimsby Town .

A few months later he returned with his move in July 1958 to Nottingham Forest in the English top division. With his new club, Whitefoot won the FA Cup straight away in 1959 . He spent a total of nine years in Nottingham in the first division, made 255 league appearances and in his senior year he won the runner- up behind his former club from Manchester .

Title / Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "England - U-23 International Results - Details" (RSSSF)
  2. ^ Ponting, Ivan: Manchester United Player by Player . Hamlyn, London 1998, ISBN 0-600-59496-3 , pp. 26 .
personal data
SURNAME Whitefoot, Jeff
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Whitefoot, Jeffrey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Cheadle