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Trevor Francis
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English association football player and manager (1954–2023)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- One in a Million : Trevor Francis
- Try Higher
- One in a Million
- The world to play for
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 23
- Total plays
- 319
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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Key facts
- 1978
- → Detroit Express (loan)
- 1979
- → Detroit Express (loan)
- 1988
- → Wollongong City (loan)
- Full name
- Trevor John Francis
- Date of birth
- ( 1954-04-19 ) 19 April 1954
- Place of birth
- Plymouth , England
- Date of death
- 24 July 2023 (2023-07-24) (aged 69)
- Place of death
- Marbella , Spain
- Height
- 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
- Position
- Forward
- 1969 1970
- Birmingham City
- Years
- Team
- 1970 1979
- Birmingham City
- 1979 1981
- Nottingham Forest
- 1981 1982
- Manchester City
- 1982 1986
- Sampdoria
- 1986 1987
- Atalanta
- 1987 1988
- Rangers
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Plymouth
- Place of death
- Marbella
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- 1982 FIFA World Cup
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- England men's national association football team
- Position played
- forward
- Country for sport
- England
- Image
- Nottingham Forest FC (Amsterdam, 1980) - Trevor Francis.jpg
- Height
- 178
- Number of children
- 2
Show 10 more facts
- date of birth
- 1954-04-19
- Commons category
- Trevor Francis
- coach of sports team
- Queens Park Rangers F.C.
- start of work period
- 1971-00-00
- number of matches played/races/starts
- 1
- total goals in career
- 0
- name in native language
- Trevor Francis
- date of death
- 2023-07-24
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Trevor John Francis (19 April 1954 – 24 July 2023) was an English footballer who played as a forward for a number of clubs in England, the United States, Italy, Scotland and Australia. In 1979 he became Britain's first £1 million player following his transfer from Birmingham City to Nottingham Forest. He scored the winning goal for Forest in the 1979 European Cup final against Malmö. He won the European Cup again with the club the following year. At international level, he played for England 52 times between 1976 and 1986, scoring 12 goals, and played at the 1982 FIFA World Cup.
Between 1988 and 2003, Francis was manager of Queens Park Rangers, Sheffield Wednesday, Birmingham City and Crystal Palace.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Trevor Francis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.