Peter Broadbent

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Peter Broadbent
Personnel
Surname Peter Frank Broadbent
birthday May 15, 1933
place of birth Elvington ,  England
date of death October 1, 2013
Place of death Himley ,  England
position midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1949-1950 Dover Athletic
1950-1951 Brentford FC 16 00(2)
1951-1965 Wolverhampton Wanderers 452 (127)
1965-1966 Shrewsbury Town 69 00(7)
1966-1969 Aston Villa 64 00(2)
1969-1970 Stockport County 31 00(1)
1970-1971 Bromsgrove Rovers
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1954 England U-23 1 00(0)
1956 England B 1 00(0)
1958-1960 England 7 00(2)
1 Only league games are given.

Peter Frank Broadbent (born May 15, 1933 in Elvington , Kent , † October 1, 2013 in Himley , Staffordshire ) was an English football player . The 1958 World Cup participant, mostly used as an attacking midfielder or right inner striker , played almost 500 competitive games for Wolverhampton Wanderers and won three English championships and one FA Cup between 1954 and 1960 .

Life

Athletic career

Peter Broadbent was born in Elvington, a small village between Canterbury and Dover , and learned to play football in school sports before playing with Dover Athletic in the Southern League . It quickly became apparent that a special talent was developing in the "Southern League" and at the age of only 17, the second division FC Brentford signed him in May 1950. The newcomer immediately made his breakthrough into the regular formation, so that several prominent first division clubs expressed their interest . These included Newcastle United and Wolverhampton Wanderers and both the persuasion of Stan Cullis and the transfer of 10,000 pounds to the London club ensured that Broadbent in February 1951 after 16 missions in the Second Division to the "Wolves" in the English Elite class changed.

Only a few days after his arrival he made his debut in the reserve team. Broadbent quickly recommended himself to the first team. The newcomer made his debut on March 17, 1951 in the 3-2 home defeat against Portsmouth FC and for the rest of the season he helped out in various positions. He also scored his first goal, although local rivals West Bromwich Albion kept the upper hand on April 21, 1951 3-2. After a summer tour of South Africa together , Broadbent spent the rest of the year in the substitute team before being promoted back to the first team shortly before the turn of the year. The team results left a lot to be desired and after 14th place the team only ended up in 16th place in 1952 .

It was not until the 1952/53 season that the club succeeded in turning things around and together with Broadbent, who scored five goals in 25 league appearances, the team jumped to third place. The team had now come together and, above all, with an offensive, which in addition to Broadbent was equipped with the attackers Roy Swinbourne and Dennis Wilshaw and on the flanks with Johnny Hancocks and Jimmy Mullen , the Wolves stormed to win their first English championship in 1954 . Broadbent, who mostly pulled the strings in the central offensive midfield as a right-wing striker, was very willing to run and made a name for himself with centimeter-accurate passes, contributed twelve of the 96 hits. In the two following years Broadbent consolidated his regular place and in addition to winning a runner-up and a third place in the league, he came to a first game in the English B-selection - in 1954 he had been in the domestic U-23 selection. He made his international debut for England's senior team in 1958 at the World Cup in Sweden on the occasion of the game in the group stage against the Soviet Union , which ended with a disappointing 0: 1 - and thus the tournament prematurely. Just two months earlier he had won his second English championship with the Wolves and the formerly technically adept talent had become a key player in the team and goalscorer (17 goals in the 1957/58 season were evidence of this).

With further outstanding performances in the season 1958/59 Broadbent had reached the sporting climax, which was expressed in the third championship trophy (he again scored 20 goals) and five appearances for England between October 1958 and May 1959. He entered the club's history books by scoring the first goal in a European competition for the Wolves, although the team was eliminated after 2-2 in the first leg against FC Schalke 04 due to the following 1-2 away defeat. With a narrowly missed " double " in 1960, at the end of the season behind Burnley FC only the runner-up, but a cup final against Blackburn Rovers (3-0), Broadbents "big time" came to an end. Although he remained a regular in his team, he often found himself in the lower half of the table. When the Wolves were relegated to the second division in the 1964/65 season , Broadbent left his long-term club in January 1965 after 145 goals in 497 competitive games.

Beyond top football, Broadbent acted in the third division for Shrewsbury Town and moved to Aston Villa in 1966 , which was only second class after relegation in the first division in 1967. The last stops were Stockport County and the amateur club Bromsgrove Rovers before the late thirties announced his retirement from active sport in 1971.

After the active career

Broadbent, a passionate golfer , opened a baby clothing store in Halesowen after his football career and most recently lived in Codsall , a village north-west of Wolverhampton.

successes

literature

  • Tony Matthews: Wolverhampton Wanderers - The Complete Record . Breedon Books, Derby 2008, ISBN 978-1-85983-632-3 , pp. 99-100 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Former England and Wolves inside-forward Peter Broadbent has died aged 80
personal data
SURNAME Broadbent, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Broadbent, Peter Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Elvington , Kent
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 2013
Place of death Himley , Staffordshire