Johnny Haynes

John Norman "Johnny" Haynes ( born October 17, 1934 in Kentish Town, London, † October 18, 2005 in Edinburgh) was an English footballer. The as "Maestro" admired inside forward and record use player of FC Fulham was the first professional football player, the 100 pounds were paid per week, and came in 56 internationals and two World Cup tournaments ( 1958 and 1962 ) for England are used.

Sports career

Since the FC Fulham had possessed no separate youth department in the late 1940s, Haynes first played in the youth teams of FC Feltham, FC Wimbledon and Woodford Town before it with his friend Tosh Chamberlain but pulled it in 1950 to the " Cottagers ". In May 1952 he became a professional player and on Boxing Day the same year he played against Southampton FC (1-1) his first game for the second division. From a young age it was found that the technically fogged inside forward was to become a key figure. At a time when the teams in the WM system even with five attackers ( two wings, two half and a center forward ) acted and the Own -back followed wingers in their man coverage to the sideline, he was above all with its long diagonal passes very successful in the opposition half. In his first full season 1953/54, he was also mit18 competitive game hits a goal threat and even though he only played in the Second Division, he graduated on October 2, 1954 against Northern Ireland his first cap for England - in a 2-0 win while he succeeded immediately his first goal.

At FC Fulham in the English selection Haynes was a regular in the following years. After he had already in 1954 been in the extended squad, but was not traveled to the tournament in Switzerland, he graduated in 1958 in Sweden and 1962 in Chile two World Cup finals tournaments for England - he retired in each case prematurely, first in the group stage and four years later in quarterfinals of. With 26 goals in 34 championship matches - including all four goals in a 4-2 victory against Lincoln City - Haynes was instrumental in bringing that FC Fulham after seven years of being second class returned back to the First Division in season 1958/59. Two years later he was captain of the England team selection, the spectacularly defeated their rivals from Scotland with 9:3 on 15 April 1961. Haynes even scored two goals and even caught the attention of the Italian AC Milan. The offer proposed that the local- " Maestro " as Haynes was called, but just like their in England already offers Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur - " supportive " certainly had the possibility that his weekly salary unmatched on to date in the UK £ 100 was increased. When choosing the footballer of the year in Europe, he came in 1961 to third place.

A serious setback suffered Haynes in August 1962 when he had an accident with the car in Blackpool, where the Fulham at that time played a league match. His legs were so severely affected that was revealed to him, never to play football again. His international career was after 56 caps and 18 goals completed in every case. Haynes never regained its previous speed and so he could not continue his career in the English selection. The FC Fulham he remained until well into the 1960s. There he had witnessed in 1968 and 1969, however, as his club was passed from the first to the third tier at the end of the years. On January 17, 1970 denied Haynes, who had the " Cottagers " trained briefly about two years ago after the dismissal of Sir Bobby Robson, against Stockport County his 658th and last game; get him a total of 158 goals for Fulham.

His last years as a footballer spent Haynes at the beginning of the 1970s, mostly in South Africa; he was there with Durban City even win the championship, which had remained always denied him the small London club in Fulham. In the 1980s he returned to the British Isles and lived for many years in Edinburgh, Scotland. There he was also the victim of a car accident in October 2005. He died of his severe injuries; accompanying his wife and the driver of another passenger cars involved were physically unharmed.

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