Keith Amos

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Keith Amos
Personnel
Surname Keith James Amos
birthday January 13, 1932
place of birth Walton-on-Thames ,  England
date of death April 2017
Place of death Surrey ,  England
position goal
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
Chase of Chertsey
Walton & Hersham
1952-1954 Arsenal FC 0 (0)
1954-1958 FC Aldershot 77 (0)
1958-1959 Fulham FC 0 (0)
1959 Kidderminster Harriers
1959-1960 Margate FC 3 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Keith James Amos (born January 13, 1932 in Walton-on-Thames , † April 2017 in Surrey ) was an English football player. The goalkeeper played 77 games in the Football League for FC Aldershot and was also under contract with FC Arsenal and FC Fulham .

Career

Amos was already in the field of vision of Arsenal FC as a youth and played early in his career for Chase of Chertsey , a club used by Arsenal as a farm team after World War II . In 1949 he was registered as an amateur at Arsenal FC and then played for Walton & Hersham in the Athenian League , with the club he was in the semi-finals of the FA Amateur Cup in the 1951/52 season (3-0 against Walthamstow Avenue ).

After completing his military service, he was awarded a professional contract by Arsenal in mid-1952 , but remained in the first team until his departure two years later. He moved to FC Aldershot in the Third Division South in 1954 , but had to wait another year for his competitive debut, to which he only came after the departure of the goalkeeper Fred Brown . In the following three seasons Amos regularly guarded the goal of the southern English club (83 competitive games), and after he had come to 38 league appearances in the season 1957/58 and had reached the third round of the FA Cup with the club , he belonged with his move In mid-1958 for Fulham FC again to a London first division club .

His stay at Fulham lasted less than a year and he was again without a competitive game, in 1959 he joined the Kidderminster Harriers for a short time in the Southern Football League . Amos played his last season in national football in 1959/60 for FC Margate, also in the Southern League. There he lost his place in goal after the 2nd match day and left the club at the end of the season.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ barryhugmansfootballers.com: Keith Amos , accessed June 25, 2020
  2. ↑ cf. Line-up in the stadium program FA Amateur Cup Semi-final Walton & Hersham v. Walthamstow A., Saturday March 22, 1952 Photo
  3. ↑ a b margatefootballclubhistory.com: Keith Amos , accessed July 29, 2017
  4. ↑ qpr.vitalfootball.co.uk: One Day In History - Aldershot 1955-56 (July 10, 2009) , accessed July 29, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Amos, Keith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Amos, Keith James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Walton-on-Thames
DATE OF DEATH April 2017
Place of death Surrey