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Alan Ball Jr. (1945–2007) was a British association football player and coach. Born in Farnworth, he played as a midfielder for the England national team. His club career included stints with Hellenic F.C., Bristol Rovers F.C., Blackpool F.C., and Eastern FC. He represented England in the 1966 FIFA World Cup, the 1968 UEFA European Championship, and the 1970 FIFA World Cup.
Ball’s professional work period spanned from 1962 to 1987. He also served as a coach for Southampton F.C. He was a member of the Order of the British Empire. He died of natural causes due to a myocardial infarction in Warsash.
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1962-06-27
Discography
- Michael Ball1992
- A Christmas Spectacular of Carols and Songs1992
- Always1993
- One Careful Owner1994
- First Love1995
- Christmas1999
- The Movies1999
- This Time... It's Personal2000
- Centre Stage2002
- A Love Story2003
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,922x
- MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0
· 2013 · cited 34,833x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,255x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,908x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,623x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- 1976
- → Hellenic (loan)
- 1978
- → Philadelphia Fury (loan)
- 1979
- Vancouver Whitecaps
- 1982
- → Floreat Athena (loan)
- 1983
- Bristol Rovers
- Full name
- Alan James Ball
- Date of birth
- ( 1945-05-12 ) 12 May 1945
- Place of birth
- Farnworth , Lancashire , England
- Date of death
- 25 April 2007 (2007-04-25) (aged 61)
- Place of death
- Warsash , Hampshire , England
- Height
- 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
- Position
- Midfielder
- 1960 1961
- Bolton Wanderers
- 1961 1962
- Blackpool
- Years
- Team
- 1962 1966
- Blackpool
- 1966 1971
- Everton
- 1971 1976
- Arsenal
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Team
- _Deceased Soccer
- Position
- Midfielder
- Nationality
- England
via TheSportsDB
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Encyclopedic overview
* Club domestic league appearances and goals
Alan James Ball (12 May 1945 – 25 April 2007) was an English professional football player and manager. He won the 1966 World Cup with England and scored more than 180 league goals in a career spanning 22 years. After retiring as a player, he had a 15-year career as a manager which included spells in the top flight of English football with Portsmouth, Southampton and Manchester City. One of the best midfielders of his generation, he was inducted in the English Football Hall of Fame in 2003.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alan Ball Jr.” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.