Neil Franklin

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Neil Franklin
Personnel
Surname Cornelius Franklin
birthday January 24, 1922
place of birth Shelton ,  England
date of death February 9, 1996
Place of death Stoke-on-Trent ,  England
position Defender (central)
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1939-1950 Stoke City 142 (0)
1950 Independiente Santa Fe
1951-1956 Hull City 95 (0)
1956-1957 Crewe Alexandra 66 (4)
1957-1958 Stockport County 20 (0)
1959-1960 Wellington Town
1960-1961 Macclesfield Town 13 (1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1946-1950 England 27 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1963-1964 APOEL Nicosia
1964-1968 Colchester United
1 Only league games are given.

Cornelius "Neil" Franklin (born January 24, 1922 in Shelton , † February 9, 1996 in Stoke-on-Trent ) was an English football player and coach . The central defender completed a total of 27 games for the English national team between 1946 and 1950 .

Athletic career

Franklin learned to play football in the Stoke City youth department , the Stoke Old Boys , before moving to the professional division in January 1939. Shortly before his career could develop further, English football stopped playing due to World War II . During the war he played in 186 matches in the Wartime League and friendly matches for English national teams.

After resuming in the 1945/46 season, Franklin played five years in the First Division for Stoke City and from the first international game after the war against Northern Ireland all games up to April 1950 against Scotland .

In 1950 Franklin decided to play for the Colombian club Santa Fe from Bogotá and even refused to participate in the 1950 World Cup in Brazil . He had previously played all three World Cup qualifiers against Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland - as well as Billy Wright , John Aston , Tom Finney and Stanley Mortensen - and was at the 1950 World Cup in Brazil by Lawrence Hughes from Liverpool FC in the central defense of the team Coach Walter Winterbottom replaced. Moving to Colombia was controversial as the Colombian Football Association was outside of FIFA . After only a few months, Franklin left South America again and joined the second division club Hull City in February 1951 . After further stations in Crewe Alexandra and Stockport County , Franklin ended his career as a footballer in 1958.

In the period between 1963 and 1968 he was then coach of the third division Colchester United , with whom he was relegated to the fourth division in his second year. After the direct rise in the following year, he had to go back to the fourth division in 1968.

Franklin later opened a public house in Sandon and died in 1996 at the age of 74.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wieland Becker: The long way to the finals. Documentation, Volume I. Pro BUSINESS, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86805-613-6 , p. 155

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personal data
SURNAME Franklin, Neil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Franklin, Cornelius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Shelton
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1996
Place of death Stoke-on-Trent