William Chalmers (football player, 1907)

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William Chalmers
Personnel
birthday July 24, 1907
place of birth Bellshill ,  Scotland
date of death July 16, 1980
size 173 cm
position Storm
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1922-1924 FC Queen's Park 68 (18)
1924-1928 Glasgow Rangers 26 0(7)
1928-1931 Newcastle United 42 (13)
1931-1932 Grimsby Town 6 0(1)
1932-1936 Bury FC 98 (23)
1936-1938 Notts County 65 (17)
1938-1943 FC Aldershot 39 0(8)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1939-1943 FC Aldershot
1943–194? Ebbw Vale AFC
1948-1949 Juventus Turin
1949-1950 Bury FC
1 Only league games are given.

William "Billy" Chalmers (born July 24, 1907 in Bellshill , Scotland , † July 16, 1980 ) was a Scottish football player and coach .

Career

As a player

William Chalmers began his career in 1922 at the age of 15 as a striker for FC Queen's Park in Glasgow, where he scored 18 goals in 68 league appearances in two seasons. His development was noticed by Bill Struth from the Glasgow Rangers , who signed him in 1924. Chalmers made his debut for the Scottish top club on October 18, 1924 in a 3-1 win against FC Falkirk . Fifteen days later, he scored his first goal for the Rangers in a 4-0 win against Partick Thistle .

Chalmers stayed in Glasgow for four years , but only made 26 league appearances, which was also due to a broken leg in a game for the reserve team in 1926. On March 16, 1928 he was signed  by Newcastle United for £ 2,500 (around £ 150,905 in today's purchasing power) . At this point, he also dropped out of medical school to fully devote himself to his professional football career, it is reported. On the following April 7th, he made his debut in the 5-1 win over Leicester City for the Magpies in the First Division . By 1931 Chalmers played 42 league games for Newcastle and scored 13 goals. He then moved to Grimsby Town for £ 1,000 , where he only made six appearances in the 1931/32 season and was relegated to the Second Division .

In June 1932, the striker was transferred to Bury FC in the Second Division. There he completed 98 league games by 1936, scoring 23 goals. In 1936 Chalmers went to the Third Division at Notts County , where he played with his ex-colleague from Newcastle Hugh Gallacher . With the team from Nottingham , he failed in 1936/37 only just about promotion to the Second Division. In the summer of 1938, William Chalmers moved to FC Aldershot , where he was active until 1943.

As a trainer

From 1939 to 1943 Chalmers was coach in Aldershot, first he acted as a player- coach , then he worked full-time as a manager . In 1943 he went to the Ebbw Vale AFC in Wales.

In early 1947, Chalmers was announced by Juventus Turin. This is said to have been based on a recommendation by the Secretary of the English Football Association Stanley Rous , later knighted FIFA President. Juventus was looking for a new coach because the previous, Renato Cesarini - as a player in the 1930s important at Juventus and CA River Plate in Buenos Aires, where he received the highest recognition as a coach in the early 1940s - announced that he would would like to return to Argentina in May.

After Chalmers, the wife and two daughters, at least temporarily left behind on the British Isles, almost since his appointment as Cesarini's successor had been an "observer" at all Juventus games, he looked after Juventus in the last ten Serie A games of the 1947 season / 48 , which the club completed as third. In the 1948/49 season Juventus was fourth, 16 points behind the series champions and local rivals AC Turin , against whom, even then, unusual, was defeat in both league games. 12 defeats in Serie A meant a new negative record since professionalization from the 1929/30 season. Chalmers was seen as incompetent and eccentric , among other things, it has been reported that he trained players while traveling in trains and hotel corridors . Chalmers' successor was Jesse Carver from England , who led Juventus to the first championship since 1935 in 1949/50, a task that had a different quality after il Grande Torino , the AC Turin team that dominated the era at the end of the previous season due to a plane crash was wiped out.

After the season moved William Chalmers after his connections to Genoa had been rumored, with whom he there 18 of 22 clubs in the second division became his former club Bury in his only year - after all, one place ahead of West Ham United .

Then his track was lost. It is reported that the date of his death was borrowed from Italian media. There is no information about the place of his death or where he was buried.

References

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Bellshill’s forgotten soccer hero was Juventus manager. MotherwellTimes.co.uk, August 1, 2007, accessed December 11, 2010 .
  2. ^ Per il calcio chalmers non divienne medico , La Stampa, Turin, February 20, 1948. p. 2.
  3. ↑ Lo scozzese Chalmers allenerà la Juventus. La Stampa , February 17, 1948, accessed December 11, 2010 (Italian).
  4. ↑ William Chalmers. Myjuve.it, accessed December 11, 2010 (Italian).
  5. ↑ Chalmers al Genoa? La Stampa , April 7, 1949, accessed December 11, 2010 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Chalmers, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chalmers, Billie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Bellshill , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1980