Peter Brabrook

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Peter Brabrook
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Peter Brabrook in May 2010.
Personnel
Surname Peter Brabrook
birthday November 8, 1937
place of birth Greenwich ,  England
date of death December 10, 2016
size 180 cm
position Winger
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1955-1962 Chelsea FC 251 (47)
1962-1968 West Ham United 167 (33)
1968-1971 FC Orient 72 0(6)
1971-1972 Romford FC 17 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1957-1961 England U-23 9 0(1)
1958-1960 England 3 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Peter Brabrook (born November 8, 1937 in Greenwich , † December 10, 2016 ) was an English football player . As a winger he was active in the second half of the 1950s for Chelsea , where he also matured to become a national player and World Cup participant in 1958 . After moving to West Ham United in 1962 , he won the FA Cup in May 1964 .

Athletic career

At the age of 17 Brabrook made his debut with first division club Chelsea , which was on the way to the English championship in the 1954/55 season . During the following season in 1955/56 he held the position of left striker, alternating with Johnny McNichol , before coach Ted Drake converted him to the right winger in November 1956 as the successor to Eric Parsons . There Brabrook should play his ball security and speed better and with the generation change he was the first player from his own youth to achieve the sporting breakthrough. His strengths were his two-footed ability and the ability to win sprint duels against defenders in tempo running. Together with his counterpart on the left Frank Blunstone , he often prepared goals from center strikers like Ron Tindall .

In September 1957, Brabrook came to the home Stamford Bridge for the first time for the English U-23 selection against Bulgaria and in the course of the following three and a half years he was eight more times for the offspring on the field. For this he was in 1958 in the cadre of senior national team at the World Championship in Sweden have previously denied an international match without. In a team that had lost many of their former regular players after the 1958 plane disaster in Munich , he made his debut in the important play-off game against the Soviet Union . It ended with a 0-1 defeat and the end of the tournament for England. In October 1958 and May 1960 Brabrook completed two more (and last) winless internationals against Northern Ireland (3: 3) and Spain (0: 3), while he remained a constant in Chelsea until the end of the 1961/62 season. His solo against West Ham United in February 1960 , in which he played off three opponents and overcame the goalkeeper, was particularly memorable . After Chelsea was relegated to the second division as bottom of the table in 1962 , Brabrook moved to West Ham in October 1962, which was still active in the First Division . The transfer fee for the not even 25-year-old was £ 35,000.

Brabrook quickly developed into a key player on the right wing with the "Hammers" and in early May 1964 he was in the final of the FA Cup , which he won with his men 3-2 against Preston North End . He had previously been in the semi-finals of the League Cup . However , he made little contribution to winning the European Cup Winners' Cup the following year when he had to make way for Alan Sealey due to an injury . In the following two seasons, 1965/66 and 1966/67, he mostly kept his regular position - when in full possession of his powers - before increasing wounds made him trouble. The last highlights for him were the two finals in the 1966 League Cup against West Bromwich Albion , which ended in defeat after a total of 3: 5 goals. After moving to third division club FC Orient in July 1968 (again a club based in London), Brabrook let his professional career fade out over the course of the following three years. He led the club in 1970 as a third league champions again in the second division and the following year to relegation . After a last stop in the Southern League at FC Romford , Brabrook's career came to an end.

Brabrook later returned to West Ham United and made a name for himself there especially in youth work. He was involved in building up the renowned Academy of Football, from which players like Frank Lampard , Joe Cole and Michael Carrick emerged .

Title / Awards

literature

  • Lovering, Peter: Chelsea Player by Player . Hamlyn, London 1998, ISBN 0-600-59497-1 , pp. 12 .
  • Hayes, Dean P .: England! England! The Complete Who's Who of Players since 1946 . Sutton Publishing, 2004, ISBN 0-7509-3234-1 , pp. 115 f .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "England - U-23 International Results- Details" (RSSSF)
  2. ↑ West Ham legend Peter Brabrook dies
personal data
SURNAME Brabrook, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Greenwich
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 2016