Today in Football Players History
Sub-Topics: Diego Maradona - Pele
Events in Sport
Results 1 - 15 of 15
1881-03-12 - Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world's first black international football player and captain.
1892-11-12 - Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, becomes 1st pro football player
1907-12-02 - English Professional Football Player's Association forms
1957-08-24 - British soccer player Jimmy Greaves' (17) 1st game for Chelsea
1965-05-15 - Canadian Football Players Association organizes
1970-08-15 - Patricia Palinkas becomes 1st woman pro football player (Orlando)
1973-12-31 - Johan Cruyff chosen European soccer Player of year
1974-10-03 - Pele retires as soccer player
1983-08-19 - LSU footballer Billy Cannon sentenced to 5 yrs for counterfeiting
1987-03-21 - PSV sells soccer player Ruud Gullit to AC Milan (Ÿ17 million)
1989-01-21 - A woman is assaulted & raped in room of an Okla football player
1989-02-13 - Oklahoma football player Charles Thompson is charged with selling cocaine; he is later sentenced to 2 years in prison
1990-01-10 - NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players
1993-04-28 - Zambian plane crashes at Libreville, Gabon, 30 soccer players die
1995-12-15 - The European Communities Court of Justice hands down the "Bosman ruling", giving EU footballers the right to a free transfer at the end of their contracts, with the provision that they are transferring from one UEFA Federation to another.
Birthdays in Sport
Results 1 - 100 of 3,135
1860-06-20 - Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer, footballer, and coach (d. 1937)
1866-03-28 - Jimmy Ross, Scottish footballer (d. 1902)
1870-08-11 - Walter Bowman, Canadian soccer player (d. ?)
1874-11-24 - Charles William Miller, Brazilian footballer (d. 1953)
1878-01-19 - Herbert Chapman, English football player and manager (d. 1934)
1878-07-08 - Jimmy Quinn, Scottish footballer (d. 1945)
1881-10-28 - Vin Coutie, Australian footballer
1883-03-01 - Thomas Shelvin, college footballer great (Yale)
1888-01-04 - Arthur Berry, England, soccer player (Olympic-gold-1908, 12)
1888-03-04 - Knute Rockne, Norwegian/US football player/coach (Notre Dame)
1890-01-15 - Tommy Fleming, American soccer player (d. 1965)
1892-07-18 - Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian football player (d. 1969)
1892-08-08 - Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (d. 1922)
1894-07-31 - Fred Keenor, Welsh footballer (d.1972)
1895-09-15 - Charles "Chic" Harley, American football player (d. 1974)
1897-09-01 - Andy Kennedy, Irish footballer (d. 1963)
1898-04-09 - Paul Robeson, Philadelphia, singer (Old Man River)/actor/footballer
1898-12-24 - Héctor Scarone, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1967)
1899-04-03 - David Jack, English footballer (d. 1958)
1899-12-04 - Charles William (Charlie) Spencer Newcastle and England football player (d. 1953)
1900-03-13 - Béla Guttman, Hungarian footballer (d. 1981)
1901-01-21 - Ricardo Zamora, Spanish footballer (d. 1978)
1901-05-15 - Luis Monti, Argentine-Italian footballer (d. 1983)
1901-05-24 - José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1968)
1901-12-02 - Raimundo Orsi, Argentine-born footballer (d. 1986)
1903-02-10 - Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (d. 1939)
1904-08-04 - Joe Tate, English footballer (d. 1973)
1904-10-27 - Erno Schwarz, Hungarian American soccer player (d. 1974)
1905-01-17 - Guillermo Stábile, Argentine footballer (d. 1966)
1906-06-30 - Ralph Allen, English footballer (d. 1981)
1907-01-22 - Dixie Dean, English footballer (d. 1980)
1907-12-10 - Lucien Laurent, French footballer (d. 2005)
1908-08-10 - Adelino ("Billy") Gonsalves, American soccer player (d. 1977)
1909-03-19 - Attilio Demaria, Argentinian footballer (d. 1990)
1909-11-04 - Bert Patenaude, American soccer player (d. 1974)
1910-02-05 - Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer
1910-02-06 - George H Poyser, English soccer player/manager (Brentford)
1910-08-23 - Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (d. 1979)
1911-04-13 - Ico Hitrec, Croatian footballer (d. 1946)
1911-07-17 - Ted Anderson, English footballer (d. 1979)
1911-10-26 - Sid Gilman, American football player (d. 2003)
1912-08-16 - Ted Drake, English footballer (d. 1995)
1913-10-02 - Karl Miller, German footballer (d. 1967)
1913-12-26 - Frank Swift, English footballer and journalist (d. 1958)
1914-03-04 - Gino Colaussi (Luigi Colaussi), Italian footballer (d. 1991)
1914-08-09 - Joe Mercer, English footballer (d. 1990)
1914-08-19 - Lajos Baróti, Hungarian footballer (d. 2005)
1915-02-01 - Stanley Matthews, 1st British soccer player to be knighted
1915-12-27 - Gyula Zsengellér, Hungarian footballer (d. 1999)
1915-12-29 - Bill Osmanski, American football player (d. 1996)
1916-08-03 - José Manuel Moreno, Argentine footballer (d. 1978)
1916-10-06 - Tommy Lawton, footballer
1917-07-26 - Bertil Nordahl, Sweden, soccer player (Olympic-gold-1948)
1918-03-05 - Red Storey, Canadian football player and ice hockey referee (d. 2006)
1918-05-03 - Ted Bates, English former footballer (d. 2003)
1918-05-16 - Wilf Mannion, English former footballer (d. 2000)
1919-01-23 - Bob Paisley, English soccer player/trainer/manager of FC Liverpool
1919-03-31 - Frank Akins, American football player (d. 1993)
1920-04-21 - Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (d. 1991)
1920-06-13 - Knut Nordahl, Sweden, soccer player (Olympic-gold-1948)
1920-07-13 - Bill Towers, English footballer (d. 2000)
1920-10-31 - Fritz Walter, German footballer (d. 2002)
1921-01-20 - Telmo Zarraonaindía, Spanish footballer (d. 2006)
1921-02-14 - Piet Kraak, Dutch soccer player
1921-10-19 - Gunnar Nordahl, Sweden, soccer player (Olympic-gold-1948)
1922-03-03 - Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer (d. 2002)
1922-04-05 - Tom Finney, English footballer
1922-05-03 - Len Shackleton, English former footballer (d. 2000)
1922-10-05 - Jock Stein, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1985)
1922-10-22 - Juan Carlos Lorenzo, Argentine footballer (d. 2001)
1922-11-08 - Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (d. 1996)
1923-10-05 - Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic footballer (d. 1994)
1923-10-22 - Bert Trautmann, German former footballer
1924-02-06 - Billy Wright, English soccer player
1924-05-25 - István Nyers, Hungarian footballer (d. 2005)
1924-07-11 - Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1971)
1925-11-28 - József Bozsik, Hungarian footballer (d. 1978)
1925-12-20 - Benito Lorenzi, Italian footballer (d. 2007)
1926-02-10 - Danny Blanchflower, British(?) soccer player
1926-04-21 - Arthur Rowley, English Footballer (d. 2002)
1926-07-04 - Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentine-Spanish footballer
1926-08-20 - Nobby Wirkowski, American and Canadian football player and coach
1926-09-07 - Erich Juskowiak, German footballer (d. 1983)
1927-04-02 - Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer (d. 2006)
1927-05-16 - Nílton Santos, Brazilian footballer
1927-06-10 - Ladislao Kubala, Hungarian-born footballer (d. 2002)
1927-09-22 - Gordon Astall, English footballer
1927-11-27 - Carlos José Castilho, Brazilian footballer (d. 1987)
1928-04-20 - Johnny Gavin, Irish footballer (d. 2007)
1928-06-07 - Dave Bowen, footballer
1929-02-16 - Gerhard Hanappi, Austrian footballer (d. 1980)
1929-02-27 - Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer
1929-05-07 - Babe Parilli, American football player
1929-07-31 - José Santamaria, Uruguayan footballer
1929-08-16 - Helmut Rahn, German footballer (d. 2003)
1929-09-08 - Roger Byrne, English footballer (d. 1958
1929-09-21 - Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (d. 1979)
1929-10-08 - Valdir Pereira, Brazilian footballer (d. 2001)
1929-10-22 - Lev Jasjin, Russian soccer player (goalie)
1929-10-22 - Lev Yashin, Soviet footballer (d. 1990)
Deaths in Sport
Results 1 - 100 of 236
1920-12-14 - George Gipp, American football player (b. 1895)
1922-03-01 - Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (b. 1892)
1927-02-06 - Sam Maguire, Irish Republican and Gaelic footballer (b. 1879)
1929-07-11 - Billy Mosforth, English footballer (b. 1857)
1931-03-31 - Knute Rockne, football player/coach, dies in a plane crash at 43
1931-09-05 - John Thomson, football player who died in an accidental collision during a match (b. 1909)
1938-04-16 - Steve Bloomer, English footballer (b. 1874)
1958-02-06 - 7 Manchester United soccer players die in an air crash near Munich
1958-02-06 - David Pegg, English footballer (b. 1935)
1958-02-06 - Tommy Taylor, English footballer (b. 1932)
1958-02-06 - Geoff Bent, English footballer (b. 1932)
1958-02-06 - Roger Byrne, English footballer (b. 1929)
1958-02-06 - Mark Jones, English footballer (b. 1933)
1958-02-06 - Frank Swift, English footballer and journalist (b. 1913)
1958-02-21 - Duncan Edwards, English footballer (b. 1936)
1959-05-16 - Elisha Scott, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1894)
1963-05-10 - Gene "Big Daddy" Lipscomb, American football player (b. 1931)
1963-05-18 - Ernie Davis, American football player (b. 1939)
1966-12-27 - Guillermo Stábile, Argentine footballer (b. 1906)
1967-04-04 - Héctor Scarone, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1898)
1967-04-18 - Karl Miller, German footballer (b. 1913)
1968-06-17 - José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1901)
1969-09-06 - Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian football player (b. 1892)
1970-06-16 - Brian Piccolo, American football player (b. 1943)
1970-07-21 - Bob Kalsu, American football player (b. 1945)
1973-03-26 - Johnny Drake, American football player (b. 1916)
1974-04-21 - Charles "Chic" Harley, American football player (b. 1895)
1974-07-19 - Erno Schwarz, Hungarian American soccer player (b. 1904)
1976-01-17 - Ad Verhoeven, soccer player (Xerxes/Sparta), dies in auto-accident
1976-01-18 - Ad Verhoeven, soccer player (Xerxes, Sparta), dies in crash [or 1/17]
1978-02-14 - Paul Governali, American professional football player (b. 1921)
1978-05-31 - József Bozsik, Hungarian footballer (b. 1925)
1978-08-26 - José Manuel Moreno, Argentine footballer (b. 1916)
1979-03-23 - Ted Anderson, English footballer (b. 1911)
1979-07-04 - Lee Wai Tong, Chinese footballer (b. 1905)
1979-07-22 - Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (b. 1929)
1979-08-21 - Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (b. 1910)
1980-03-01 - Dixie Dean, English footballer (b. 1907)
1980-10-15 - Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek footballer and volleyball player (b. 1896)
1981-01-17 - Loukas Panourgias, Greek footballer (b. 1899)
1981-05-09 - Ralph Allen, English footballer (b. 1906)
1981-08-28 - Béla Guttman, Hungarian footballer (b. 1900)
1981-11-14 - Robert Bradford, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1941)
1983-01-20 - Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (b. 1933)
1983-03-25 - Bob Waterfield, American football player (b. 1920)
1984-04-27 - Piet Kraak, Dutch soccer player, dies at 63
1986-01-15 - James H "Jim" Crowley, US football player (Notre Dame), dies at 83
1986-05-11 - Fritz Pollard, American football player (b. 1894)
1986-12-01 - Robert L "Bobby" Layne, football player (Detroit Lions), dies at 59
1987-02-02 - Castilho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1927)
1987-04-03 - Tom Sestak, American football player (b. 1936)
1987-07-11 - Avi Ran, Israeli footballer (b. 1963)
1989-02-21 - Alex Thépot, French footballer (b. 1906)
1989-03-18 - Piet Kruiver, Dutch soccer player, dies at 51
1989-05-26 - Don Revie, Former footballer and England and Leeds United Manager (b. 1927)
1989-07-15 - Laurie Cunningham, English footballer (b. 1956)
1989-08-12 - Samuel Okwaraji, Nigerian footballer (b. 1964)
1990-03-11 - Dean Horrix, English footballer (b. 1961)
1990-03-15 - Tom Harmon, American football player and broadcaster (b. 1919)
1990-03-20 - Lev Yashin, Soviet footballer (b. 1929)
1990-08-09 - Joe Mercer, English footballer (b. 1914)
1990-11-11 - Attilio Demaría, Argentinian footballer (b. 1909)
1991-04-04 - Luc de Rijck, Belgian soccer player (Turnhout), dies
1991-04-04 - Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (b. 1920)
1991-04-25 - Theo Laseroms, [Tank], Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord), dies
1991-05-06 - Chucky Mullins, US soccer player, dies
1991-07-06 - Muda Lawal, Nigerian footballer (b. 1954)
1991-09-13 - Metin Oktay, Turkish football player (b. 1936)
1991-12-05 - Aad Mansfield, soccer player/trainer (ADO/Feyenoord/FC Utrecht), dies
1992-12-16 - Rinus Terlouw, Dutch soccer player/trainer (Sparta), dies
1993-03-26 - Roy Riegels, U of Calif football player who ran wrong way, dies at 84
1993-04-30 - Tommy Caton, English footballer (b. 1962)
1993-10-04 - Jim Holton, Scottish footballer (b. 1951)
1993-10-12 - Tofik Bakhramov, Russian footballer (b. 1926)
1994-02-20 - Manuel F "Garincha" dos Santos, soccer player (Brazil), dies at 49
1994-04-07 - Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic footballer and politician (b. 1923)
1994-05-30 - Agostino Di Bartolomei, Italian footballer (b. 1955)
1994-09-03 - Billy Wright, English soccer player (World Champion 1950), dies at 70
1994-09-03 - William Ambrose Right, footballer, dies at 70
1994-10-09 - Raich Carter, footballer, dies at 80
1995-01-26 - Vic Buckingham, English soccer player/trainer (Ajax), dies at 79
1995-01-30 - George H Poyser, English soccer player (Manchester City), dies at 84
1995-04-01 - Johnny Nicholss, footballer, dies at 63
1995-05-06 - Noel Brotherston, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1956)
1995-05-30 - Ted Drake, English footballer (b. 1912)
1995-09-25 - Dave Bowen, footballer, dies at 67
1996-01-16 - Harry Potts, footballer/manager, dies at 75
1996-05-11 - Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (b. 1922)
1996-06-29 - Bobby Keetch, footballer/entrepreneur, dies at 54
1996-07-24 - "Jock" John Wallace, soccer player/manager, dies at 60
1996-07-24 - Jock Wallace, football player/manager, dies at 60
1996-10-04 - Silvio Piola, footballer, dies at 83
1996-11-06 - Tommy Lawton, footballer, dies at 80
1997-01-10 - George Young, footballer, dies at 74
1997-02-19 - Stanley Pearson, footballer, dies at 76
1997-11-09 - Helenio Herrera, French football player and coach (b. 1910)
1997-12-06 - Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer (b. 1942)
1997-12-07 - Billy Bremner, Scottish former footballer (b. 1942)
1998-02-18 - Robbie James, Welsh footballer (b. 1957)
1998-03-08 - Ray Nitschke, American football player (b. 1936)
