Frank Soo

Hong Ying "Frank" Soo ( born March 8, 1914 in Buxton, Derbyshire, † January 25, 1991 in Cheadle, Staffordshire ) was an English football player and coach. The Chinese -born midfielder is sometimes referred to as the first non - white England international, although the called Wartime internationals games in which he participated, led by the Football Association not official internationals.

Career

Soo was the son of a Chinese sailor and an English woman in central England to the world. After the family moved to the Merseyside, he started there with the football games at the Liverpool Schoolboys and Prescot Cables before joining Stoke City in January 1933. In the six years up to the Second World War, he was one of the first non-white player in England in 176 games for the club and was able to achieve six goals.

During the war, Soo came at different clubs as so-called Wartime Guest Players used and denied doing 81 games. In addition to the Reading FC were Everton, Chelsea and Brentford FC. In addition, he made his debut on 9 May 1942 the 0-1 away defeat against the Welsh selection before 30,000 spectators at Ninian Park in Cardiff in the English selection. Until his last game on 20 October 1945 a new 0-1 defeat against Wales at The Hawthorns in Birmingham he ran in nine games selection for the English country selection. He stood at the side of players such as Stanley Matthews and Neil Franklin on the field.

After the war, Soo moved for a transfer fee in the amount of £ 4,600 to Leicester City. The local coach Tom Mather had already cared for him at Stoke City. In July 1946, he moved on to Luton Town. Here he played a further 71 league games. His career trailed off when unterklassigen club Chelmsford City.

From 1947 Soo worked as a coach at unterklassigen club St Albans City FC before 1950 went to Italy for AC Padua. Once the commitment has already completed at the beginning of the season 1951/52, he went to Sweden. First, he oversaw the IFK Eskilstuna, before he took over the Örebro SK. From the summer of 1954, he was the coach at Djurgårdens IF. There he celebrated his greatest success when he led the club to its fifth championship title in club history. The next stop was Oddevold before he oversaw in 1958 for one season AIK. He then returned to England and took over the coaching job at Scunthorpe United.

After a brief engagement as coach of the Israeli national Soo returned again as a coach back to Scandinavia and supervised in the following years several clubs such as IS Köpings, IFK Stockholm, AB Copenhagen and Höganäs BK.