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Alf Ramsey
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English association football player and manager (1920-1999)
Key facts
- 1948
- England B
- Full name
- Alfred Ernest Ramsey
- Date of birth
- ( 1920-01-22 ) 22 January 1920
- Place of birth
- Dagenham , England
- Date of death
- 28 April 1999 (1999-04-28) (aged 79)
- Place of death
- Ipswich , England
- Height
- 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
- Position
- Right-back
- Years
- Team
- 1943 1949
- Southampton
- 1949 1955
- Tottenham Hotspur
- 1948 1953
- England
- 1955 1963
- Ipswich Town
- 1963 1974
- England
- 1977 1978
- Birmingham City
- 1979 1980
- Panathinaikos (technical director)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alf
- Family name
- Ramsey
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Dagenham
- Place of death
- Ipswich
- Occupation
- association football coach
- Employer
- Panathinaikos F.C.
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Knight Bachelor
- Participant in
- 1968 UEFA European Championship
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- England men's national association football team
- Position played
- full-back
- Country for sport
- England
- Image
- Alf Ramsey (1969).jpg
- Height
- 173
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- date of birth
- 1920-01-22
- date of death
- 1999-04-28
- Commons category
- Alf Ramsey
- birth name
- Alfred Ernest Ramsey
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Alf Ramsey
- coach of sports team
- Birmingham City F.C.
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Sir Alfred Ernest Ramsey (22 January 1920 – 28 April 1999) was an English football player and manager. As a player, he represented the England national team and captained the side, but he is best known for his time as England manager from 1963 to 1974, which included guiding them to victory in the 1966 FIFA World Cup. Knighted in 1967 in recognition of the World Cup win, Ramsey also managed his country to third place in the 1968 European Championship and the quarter-finals of the 1970 World Cup and the 1972 European Championship. As a player, Ramsey was a defender and a member of England's 1950 World Cup squad.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alf Ramsey” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.