Doug McMahon

Douglas Alexander " Doug " McMahon ( born October 16, 1917 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, † April 16, 1997 in Montreal, Quebec ) was a Canadian football player.

Career

Doug McMahon went in the fall of 1938 for a one-month trial to the English club Wolverhampton Wanderers and signed on October 11 a professional contract. His competitive debut was on January 1, 1939 as a right inside forward against FC Blackpool, it was also his only use. The season ended as runners-up behind Everton Wolverhampton, in the season break McMahon went to Wolverhampton on a European tour. By setting the game operation of the First Division immediately after the outbreak of war in September 1939, McMahon had granted no more betting in professional football. In the substitute discharged Wartime League he graduated in the season 1939/40, some more games for the " Wolves " (6 games / 9 goals) and was a guest player also active with Chester City (5 /8).

In 1941 he volunteered in the army and served in the Royal Canadian Navy Reserve as a telegrapher. After his discharge from military service in August 1945, he continued his football career continued at the Chicago Maroons in the newly established North American Professional Soccer League. McMahon won in 1948 with Montreal Carsteel the Canadian championship in the final two games against Hamilton Westinghouse (3:1 and 3:3 ), he met three times, in total, he scored 71 goals this season. In 1956, he acted as manager of Montreal Sparta.

Since the Canadian National Team 1927-1957 only two games fought out in 1937, it brought McMahon at any international match. For a selection ostkanadische he came in the years 1947 and 1948 in two operations against an American Ostauswahl, 1949 he also completed a match against a Scottish team selection. 2002 McMahon was included in the category of players in the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame.