Martin Peters (soccer player)

Martin Peters
Personnel
Surname	Martin Stanford Peters
birthday	November 8, 1943
place of birth	London ,  England
date of death	December 21, 2019
position	midfield player
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1959-1970	West Ham United	302 (81)
1970-1975	Tottenham Hotspur	189 (46)
1975-1980	Norwich City	206 (44)
1980-1981	Sheffield United	24 0(3)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1966-1974	England	67 (20)
1 Only league games are given.

Martin Peters (born November 8, 1943 in Plaistow , London , † December 21, 2019 ) was an English football player .

Martin Peters was an outside runner for West Ham United . He signed his first professional contract with the London club in 1959, but did not move up to the first team until 1962. In the 1964/1965 season he became a regular player and in the same season won the European Cup Winners' Cup in the final against TSV 1860 Munich . In May 1966, national coach Alf Ramsey had him play for the first time in the preparation game for the 1966 World Cup against Yugoslavia in the English national team. Peters was able to convince in this 2-0 success of the English and was nominated a little later in the squad for the World Cup.

In England's opening game against Uruguay , Peters was still on the bench; From the second group game of the preliminary round, however, he played from the start to the final against Germany . In the final, he almost became the hero of the final when he scored the 2-1 lead for England, but Wolfgang Weber was able to equalize 2-2 shortly before the end of the game. His West Ham colleague Geoff Hurst became a national hero with two more goals in overtime. Peters, however, was henceforth also a regular in the English national team.

In March 1970, Peters moved to local rivals Tottenham Hotspur for the then record transfer sum of £ 200,000 . In the same year he took part in the Soccer World Cup in Mexico in 1970 . In the quarter-finals, the defending champions met Germany again and Peters scored a 2-0 lead for England at the beginning of the second half. Coach Alf Ramsey then took his best players Peters and Bobby Charlton out of the game. A fateful mistake by the coach, because England lost the game 2: 3 in extra time and were eliminated from the tournament.

Peters' career in the national dress was marked by disappointments from this game on. In 1972 he was eliminated with England in the quarter-finals of the European Football Championship in 1972 against Germany - he had played in the European Championship qualifiers and in the quarter-finals in seven games and scored a goal - and in 1973 he missed qualifying for the 1974 World Cup against Poland . He then ended his international career after 67 internationals.

At his new club Tottenham, his further career was more successful. In 1972 he won the UEFA Cup in the all-English final against Wolverhampton Wanderers . In 1974 he reached the UEFA Cup final again, but this time lost to Feyenoord Rotterdam . After that season he left Tottenham and went to Norwich City . For Norwich he played over 200 times until 1980 and then became player-coach for Sheffield United . In total, Martin Peters played 882 times in the former First Division until 1981 and scored 220 goals. However, he did not pursue a career as a coach, but went into the insurance business until he retired. From 1998 he was on the board of directors of Tottenham Hotspur.

Peters most recently suffered from Alzheimer's disease . He died in December 2019 at the age of 76.

Web links

• Martin Peters in the database of weltfussball.de
• Martin Peters in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• Martin Peters in the English national team
• Data of the individual seasons

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Martin Peters RIP. In: tottenhamhotspur.com. Retrieved December 22, 2019 .