Joe Cini

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Joe Cini
Personnel
Surname Joseph Cini
birthday November 29, 1936
place of birth Malta
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1956-1959 FC Floriana
1959-1960 Queens Park Rangers
1960-1973 Sliema Wanderers
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1957-1972 Malta 18 (2)
1 Only league games are given.

Joseph Cini , better known as Joe Cini (born November 29, 1936 ) is a retired Maltese football player in the position of a striker . He played in the 1950s and 1960s for the two most successful Maltese clubs of the time, FC Floriana and Sliema Wanderers , with whom he won the national championship and the cup competition six times . In 1970 he was voted Footballer of the Year in Malta .

Life

society

Cini began his professional career in the 1956/57 season at FC Floriana, for which he played three seasons and won the Maltese football championship once and the cup twice.

In the 1959/60 season he was with the English club Queens Park Rangers under contract before returning to his home country, where he spent the following 13 years in the service of Sliema Wanderers, with whom he won another five league titles and four cup wins.

National team

Cini made his debut for the Maltese national team in a friendly against Austria on February 24, 1957, which was lost 3-2. He scored his first international goal against the same opponent twelve years later on April 27, 1969, also in a test match (1: 3). In his next international match, a friendly against Luxembourg (1-1) on January 4, 1970, he had his second and last international goal. He almost scored a goal in his third international match in a row, but in the qualifying game for the European Championship finals in 1972 against old arch-rivals England (0-1) on February 3, 1971 , he failed shortly before the end of the game against the brilliant goalkeeper Gordon Banks .

All of the above games were played on the legendary hard court of the Empire Stadium Gzira , in which a total of twelve international matches - and thus exactly two thirds of the games - took place with Cinis' participation.

He made his 18th and last international appearance on May 6, 1972 as part of qualifying for the 1974 World Cup in Budapest against Hungary (0: 3).

successes

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Malta - Player of the Year at RSSSF
  2. ↑ Carmel Baldacchino: Goals, Cups and Tears - A History of Maltese Football, Vol. 6: 1968–1978 The Last Days of the Empire Stadium , Bugelli Publications, Malta 1997, pp. 118f

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personal data
SURNAME Cini, Joe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cini, Joseph (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Maltese soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Malta