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Key facts
- 1948
- England B
- Full name
- William Ambrose Wright
- Date of birth
- ( 1924-02-06 ) 6 February 1924
- Place of birth
- Ironbridge , Shropshire , England
- Date of death
- 3 September 1994 (1994-09-03) (aged 70)
- Place of death
- London , England
- Height
- 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
- Position
- Centre-back
- Years
- Team
- 1939 1959
- Wolverhampton Wanderers
- 1946 1959
- England
- 1962 1966
- Arsenal
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Billy
- Family name
- Wright
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Ironbridge
- Place of death
- London Borough of Barnet
- Occupation
- association football coach
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- 1950 FIFA World Cup
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- England men's national association football team
- Position played
- midfielder
- Country for sport
- England
- Official website
- sirbillywright.com
- Image
- Billy Wright (1961).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1924-02-06
- date of death
- 1994-09-03
- cause of death
- pancreatic cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- Billy Wright
- coach of sports team
- Arsenal F.C.
- start of work period
- 1939-00-00
- end of work period
- 1959-00-00
- different from
- Billy Wright
- name in native language
- Billy Wright
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Encyclopedic overview
William Ambrose Wright (6 February 1924 – 3 September 1994) was an English footballer who played as a centre-back. He spent his entire club career at Wolverhampton Wanderers. The first footballer in the world to earn 100 international caps, Wright also held the record for longest unbroken run in competitive international football, with 70 consecutive appearances, although that was surpassed by Andoni Zubizarreta's 86 consecutive appearances for Spain (1985–94). He also made a total of 105 appearances for England, captaining them a record 90 times, including during their campaigns at the 1950, 1954 and 1958 World Cup.
Early life and education
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Billy Wright” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.