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Welsh footballer and manager
Harold Michael England
MBE
(born 2 December 1941) is a Welsh former
footballer
and
manager
.
Playing career
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Playing as a
central defender
, England began his career at
Blackburn Rovers
in 1959, before moving to
Tottenham Hotspur
in July 1966, ultimately winning four major trophies: the
FA Cup
in 1967, the
UEFA Cup
in 1972, and the
League Cup
in 1971 and 1973.
He made 44 international appearances for
Wales
over twelve years, scoring 4 goals.
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He was the youngest ever Wales permanent captain for many years, until superseded by
Aaron Ramsey
in 2011.
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Management career
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He later managed the Wales national team from March 1980 to February 1988. His reign as manager was marked by a series of frustrations, as a team of limited resources, but with talented players such as
Neville Southall
,
Ian Rush
,
Mark Hughes
and
Mickey Thomas
, very narrowly missed out on qualification to a series of major tournaments, including the
1982
, and
1986 FIFA World Cups
. Perhaps most agonisingly, Wales only missed out on qualification for the
UEFA Euro 1984
by minutes when an injury-time winning goal by
Ljubomir Radanovi?
for
Yugoslavia
in the final game of
qualifying group 4
against
Bulgaria
eliminated Wales.
England was sacked as Wales manager on 3 February 1988 after another initially promising attempt to qualify for
UEFA Euro 1988
ended in failure. That was to be the final job he would ever have in football. He later managed a nursing home in North Wales, and then owned two nursing homes and ran his own timber business.
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Honours
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Tottenham Hotspur
Individual
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