Alan Ball, Jr.
James Alan Ball MBE ( born May 12 1945 in Farnworth in Bolton, † April 25, 2007 in Warsash, Hampshire ) was an English football player and coach.
Career
He was the youngest member of the team that in the final of World Cup 1966, the German team 4-2 aet defeated. Overall, he played 72 international matches for the England football team. He scoring 8 goals. He was a tireless ball tractor and impeller and often came here on the right wing from the midfield. In winning the world title in 1966 was the variant of coach Alf Ramsey with the " wingless wonders " one of the main guarantors of winning the title. Without brilliant winger put Ramsey on very strong endurance runner running on the outer positions in the midfield, who were constantly in both directions on the road game. They were right and left Alan Ball Martin Peters. With the strategists, playmaker and also extremely long distances continuous Bobby Charlton together fed the two long-distance runner on the sidelines, the shock striker Roger Hunt and Geoff Hurst in the middle. So it was Ball who gave the edge to 3-2.
Achievements
National
Winning the world title was the greatest success in the career of Alan Ball, who made his debut in Belgrade in the team of Alf Ramsey on May 9, 1965 against Yugoslavia. Also in the 1970 World Cup in Mexico was Alan Ball for England on the ball with 2:3 nV but was then set to the premature finale for the quarter-final against Germany. The success of the World Championships at home could not be repeated.
Association
But in his club stations Bolton Wanderers, Blackpool FC, Everton FC, Arsenal FC and Southampton FC he scored notable successes also. With Everton he celebrated winning the championship in 1970 even. He played a total of 633 top-flight appearances, scoring 124 goals, after all. At the conclusion of his playing career he played among others in the NASL in Philadelphia Fury and the Vancouver Whitecaps as well as in Hong Kong, before he then worked as a manager and Others for Manchester City.
Death
Alan Ball died on 25 April 2007 in the evening in his garden in Warsash in the county of Hampshire on a heart attack. He left three children ( one son and two daughters ).