Johnny Hubbard

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Johnny Hubbard
Personnel
Surname John Gaulton Hubbard
birthday December 16, 1930
place of birth Pretoria ,  South Africa
date of death June 21, 2018
size 159 cm
position Winger
Juniors
Years station
0000-1949 Berea Park FC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1949-1959 Glasgow Rangers 176 (77)
1959-1962 Bury FC 109 (29)
1962-1964 Ayr United 52 0(5)
1 Only league games are given.

John "Johnny" Gaulton Hubbard (born December 16, 1930 in Pretoria , † June 21, 2018 ) was a South African football player .

Career

Johnny Hubbard began his career in his South African hometown of Pretoria with Berea Park FC. With a height of only 159 cm, he played as a winger . In 1949 he joined the Glasgow Rangers . With the club he was five times Scottish champion and two cup winners in the 1950s. He was a player in the first Rangers team to play internationally in Europe when they took part in the 1956/57 European Cup. He was also the first African player to appear in a European competition and was the first to score a goal against OGC Nice in October 1956. In his career with the Rangers, he scored 65 of 68 penalty goals, which he was nicknamed the "Penalty King". At the Old Firm on January 1, 1955, he was the last Rangers player to score a hat trick in a league game against Celtic . The more popular Hubbard completed a total of 238 competitive games for the Rangers and scored 104 goals between 1949 and 1959. From 1959 to 1962 he played three years in England at Bury , with which he won the 1961 third division championship. He then let his career at Ayr United end and became a PE teacher . After retiring, Hubbard was elected to the Rangers Hall of Fame .

He last lived in Ayrshire in southwest Scotland . In old age he still attended Rangers games in Ibrox Park . He died on June 21, 2018 at the age of 87.

successes

with the Glasgow Rangers:

with FC Bury:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rangers: Former Ibrox winger Johnny Hubbard dies aged 87. In: BBC Sport. June 21, 2018, accessed July 2, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Hubbard, Johnny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hubbard, John Gaulton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Pretoria , South Africa
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 2018