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Emlyn Hughes
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English association football player (1947–2004)
Key facts
- 1983
- Hull City
- Full name
- Emlyn Walter Hughes
- Date of birth
- ( 1947-08-28 ) 28 August 1947
- Place of birth
- Barrow-in-Furness , England
- Date of death
- 9 November 2004 (2004-11-09) (aged 57)
- Place of death
- Sheffield , England
- Positions
- Defender midfielder
- Years
- Team
- 1964 1967
- Blackpool
- 1967 1979
- Liverpool
- 1979 1981
- Wolverhampton Wanderers
- 1981 1983
- Rotherham United
- 1983 1984
- Swansea City
- 1967 1970
- England U-23
- 1969 1980
- England
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Position
- Defender
- Nationality
- England
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Hughes
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Barrow-in-Furness
- Place of death
- Sheffield
- Occupation
- association football coach
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- UEFA Euro 1980
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- England men's national association football team
- Position played
- defender
- Country for sport
- England
- Image
- Emlyn Hughes (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 1.79
Show 8 more facts
- date of birth
- 1947-08-28
- date of death
- 2004-11-09
- manner of death
- natural causes
- coach of sports team
- Rotherham United F.C.
- number of matches played/races/starts
- 4
- total goals in career
- 1
- Commons category
- Emlyn Hughes
- name in native language
- Emlyn Hughes
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Encyclopedic overview
Emlyn Walter Hughes OBE (28 August 1947 – 9 November 2004) was an English footballer. He started his career at Blackpool in 1964 before moving to Liverpool in 1967. He made 665 appearances for Liverpool and captained the side to three league titles and an FA Cup victory in the 1970s. Added to these domestic honours were two European Cups, including Liverpool's first in 1977; and two UEFA Cup titles. Hughes won the Football Writers' Player of the Year in 1977. Hughes completed a full set of English football domestic honours by winning the League Cup with Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1980. In addition to Wolves, he later played for Rotherham United, Hull City, Mansfield Town and Swansea City. Hughes earned 62 caps for the England national team, which he also captained.
After retiring from football, he worked as a media personality, mainly with the BBC. He was made an OBE in 1980 for his services to sport. Hughes died of a brain tumour, aged 57, in 2004.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Emlyn Hughes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.