Albert Campbell (footballer)
Appearance
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Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 4 January 1938 | ||
Place of birth | Belfast, Northern Ireland | ||
Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||
Position(s) | Centre-half | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1954–1970 | Crusaders | 529 | (26) |
International career | |||
1963–1964 | Northern Ireland | 2 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Albert Campbell (born 4 January 1938 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a former footballer who played with Crusaders in the Irish League in the 1960s, and who won two full international caps for Northern Ireland (the first Crusaders player to be capped): against Wales in the 1963 Home Internationals and Switzerland in a World Cup match in 1964. He also won a 'B' international cap against France in 1959.
With Crusaders, he won the Ulster Cup and County Antrim Shield, and was part of the club's first Irish Cup-winning teams in 1967 and 1968. He was named the Ulster Footballer of the Year for the 1960/61 season.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ M. Brodie (ed.), Northern Ireland Soccer Yearbook 2009-2010, p. 102. Belfast:Ulster Tatler Publications
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Kategorien:
- 1938 births
- Northern Ireland men's international footballers
- Ulster Footballers of the Year
- Crusaders F.C. players
- NIFL Premiership players
- Living people
- Association footballers from Belfast
- Men's association footballers from Northern Ireland
- Northern Ireland men's amateur international footballers
- Men's association football central defenders
- Northern Ireland association football biography stubs