Ron Staniforth
| Ron Staniforth | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| Surname | Ronald Staniforth | |
| birthday | April 13, 1924 | |
| place of birth | Manchester , England | |
| date of death | October 1988 | |
| Place of death | Barrow-in-Furness , England | |
| size | 180 cm | |
| position | Defender (right) | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1946-1952 | Stockport County | 223 (1) |
| 1952-1955 | Huddersfield Town | 110 (0) |
| 1955-1959 | Sheffield Wednesday | 102 (2) |
| 1959-1961 | AFC Barrow | 38 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1953-1954 | England B | 3 (0) |
| 1954 | England | 8 (0) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1959-1964 | AFC Barrow | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Ronald "Ron" Staniforth (born April 13, 1924 in Manchester , † October 1988 in Barrow-in-Furness ) was an English football player . As a right defender , he was a regular for the English national team during the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland .
Athletic career
Staniforth served in the Royal Navy as a young man during World War II and later worked as a milkman. In 1946, when the English Football League resumed its operations after the fighting, Staniforth was striving for a serious football career at the age of 22 and his written request to the third division club Stockport County was answered with an invitation to practice training. After successfully auditioning, he was initially engaged on an amateur basis from August 1946, but he was so convincing with his performance that he was offered a professional contract within six weeks. A short time later he made his debut against the Tranmere Rovers and in the following six years he was an integral part of the defense of the hat makers as a defender . Although he was always denied promotion to the next higher Football League Second Division , but in a defensive line with only 40 goals conceded - the fewest in the Third Division North - he recommended himself for "higher tasks". When his coach Andy Beattie moved to first division relegated Huddersfield Town in 1952 , he finally took Staniforth with him. This had played a total of 245 competitive games for Stockport County.
Within a very short time, Staniforth found his way around the new environment and on the way to direct promotion he was again part of the league-wide (by far) best defense in terms of the number of goals conceded. So he played himself in the focus of the English national teams and a first appearance in the B-team on March 11, 1953 against Scotland (2: 2), followed by two more games in March 1954. In the 1953/54 season Staniforth had in addition convinced the highest English division and took a surprisingly good third place with his team , so that he seamlessly made the step into the English senior team from April 1954. He was also nominated for the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland and was in the starting line-up in all three games up to and including the elimination against Uruguay (2-4).
But already in the following season it became evident that he had passed his zenith and after a game against Newcastle United , when the opposing winger Bobby Mitchell duped him again and again, coach Beattie took him off the team. In July 1955, Staniforth Huddersfield left for the second division club Sheffield Wednesday . He spent four years with the "Owls" and helped them win the second division championship in the first year - after two years it went back to the second division. The last active station was from October 1959 the fourth division AFC Barrow , which he also coached until 1964 (until 1961 he acted in a double function as player- coach ).
After that, he never appeared again as a trainer in his main responsibility; rather, he was twice part of the coaching staff of Sheffield Wednesday. Staniforth died in October 1988 at the age of 64.
literature
- Hayes, Dean P .: England! England! The Complete Who's Who of Players since 1946 . Sutton Publishing, 2004, ISBN 0-7509-3234-1 , pp. 74 f .
Web links
- Ron Staniforth as England international
- Statistical data from the Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Database
- Profile at Playerhistory.com ( Memento from February 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Staniforth, Ron |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Staniforth, Ronald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 13, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Manchester , England |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 1988 |
| Place of death | Barrow-in-Furness , England |