Roger Hunt

Roger Hunt
Roger hunt (2006)
Personnel
Surname	Roger Hunt
birthday	July 20, 1938
place of birth	Golborne ,  England
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1958-1969	Liverpool FC	404 (245)
1969-1972	Bolton Wanderers	76 ( 024)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1962-1969	England	34 ( 018)
1 Only league games are given.

Roger Hunt (born July 20, 1938 in Golborne ) is a retired English football player . The 1966 world champion played a total of 492 competitive games for Liverpool and is behind Ian Rush with 286 goals the player with the second-most goals in the history of the "Reds".

Athletic career

Roger Hunt joined Liverpool in 1959 and became one of the club's most successful strikers. He has scored 286 goals for Liverpool over the course of his career. Only Ian Rush surpassed him in the early 1990s - Hunt remains the record holder for 245 league goals to this day. With Liverpool FC he was English champion in 1964 and 1966 and won the cup final in 1965. In 1966 he reached the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup with his club , which he lost 2-1 to Borussia Dortmund . In the same year he won the soccer world championship in his home country with the English national team . As a strike partner of Geoff Hurst , he played all his team's games in this tournament and scored two goals in the preliminary round match against France . At the European Football Championship in 1968 he reached the semifinals. However, England surprisingly lost 1-0 to Yugoslavia . He played a total of 34 international matches from 1962 to 1969, in which he scored 18 goals.

In 1969 Roger Hunt moved to the Bolton Wanderers and ended his career there in 1972.

successes

• World Champion : 1966
• English champion : 1964 , 1966
• FA Cup winner : 1965
• Charity Shield Winner: 1964 (shared), 1965 (shared), 1966

Web links

• Profile at lfchistory.net
• Profile at liverpoolfc.tv
• Statistics in the Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Database