Tony Nicholl

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Tony Nicholl ( 1916 - March 11, 1999 ) was a Maltese football player on the position of a striker . Nicholl was a total of eight top scorer in the Maltese league and was elected Footballer of the Year in Malta shortly before the end of his playing career in the 1955/56 season . He is considered one of the best footballers in the history of his long-time club Sliema Wanderers and is an uncle of football player Sammy Nicholl , who also played for Sliema Wanderers and was the top scorer in the Maltese league in the 1955/56 and 1956/57 seasons.

Life

At the age of seven, Nicholl sustained a serious injury while playing soccer, which made his leg swell more and more over the next few days. The doctor diagnosed periostitis and recommended amputation of the leg. Fortunately for Nicholl and Maltese football, his parents got a second opinion just to be on the safe side and consulted doctor Azzopardi, who was also long-time president of Sliema Wanderers FC. He found that Tony Nicholl's leg was broken and treated him accordingly, preventing the amputation that his colleague's misdiagnosis almost resulted in.

In early 1927, his family moved to Marsa , where Nicholl first played on a school team. In 1929 he played in various amateur and leisure teams from Sliema . At one of these games, a representative of the Sliema Wanderers became aware of Nicholl and brought him into the team of the Sliema Rovers, a farm team of the Wanderers. There Nicholl played so outstandingly that he was accepted into the first team of the Wanderers in 1931, for which he made his debut in May 1932 at the age of 16.

Nicholl played from 1932 to 1957 for a quarter of a century for Sliema Wanderers FC, with whom he won the league title ten times and the cup competition nine times . He also played a total of 48 games for a Maltese national team between 1933 and 1956, scoring 34 goals.

successes

References and comments

  1. ↑ Maltese Legend Tony Nicholl (English; accessed November 8, 2014)
  2. ↑ Alex Vella (Times of Malta): Nicholl - 15 years since he passed away (English; article from March 11, 2014)
  3. ^ Malta - List of Topscorers at RSSSF
  4. ↑ RSSSF does not list the 1945/46 season, in which Nicholl was the top scorer of the Maltese league with 22 goals according to the following article Family ties ... the Nicholl bond .
  5. ↑ Frank Testa, Sliema (Times of Malta): Memorial for Tony Nicholl (English; article from September 17, 2013)
  6. ↑ Carmel Baldacchino (Times of Malta): Family ties… The Nicholl bond (English; article from February 18, 2010)
  7. ↑ a b Carmel Baldacchino (Times of Malta): The young Tony Nicholl (English; article from November 18, 2010)
  8. ↑ Mission and goals according to the article Family ties ... the Nicholl bond ; The Maltese national football team was not officially formed until 1959 when he joined FIFA , which is why Nicholl's games do not have an official international character.
personal data
SURNAME Nicholl, Tony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Maltese soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Malta
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1999
Place of death Malta