Nat Lofthouse
Nathaniel " Nat" Lofthouse, OBE ( born August 27, 1925 in Bolton, † January 15, 2011 ) was an English footballer who was active throughout his career at Bolton Wanderers and for this club and later worked in various functions.
Sports career
Lofthouse was born in 1925 in Bolton, a town in Greater Manchester,. He joined in September 1939, Bolton Wanderers and came in March 1941 in a 5-1 win against FC Bury for his first game for the club, where he scored two goals. All it took was due to the Second World War for five years until Lofthouse got its first league use. In the 3:4 defeat against Chelsea on 31 August 1946, he scored again in his debut two goals. Lofthouse should make for the English national total of 33 international matches, where he at the age of 25 years in a 2-2 debuted on November 22, 1950 in Highbury against Yugoslavia and met two times there.
On May 25, 1952 Lofthouse scored in the 3-2 win against Austria two goals and subsequently received the nickname " Lion of Vienna ". Following Lofthouse scored on 24 September 1952 a game of choosing the Football League against the Irish equivalent of six hits.
In 1953 Lofthouse was named in England's Footballer of the Year. On 2 May the same year Lofthouse scored again a goal, but lost to Bolton 's famous FA Cup final ( the so-called " Matthews Final " ), where he had also taken in each round before. He was also with 30 -goal top scorer of the First Division and presented on May 20, the 1956 5-1 win against Finland in Helsinki with his 29th international goal the 45- year-old record by Vivian Woodward one. With his last goal for the 5-0 victory over the Soviet Union on 22 October 1958, he overtook him and was with Tom Finney, who had two weeks earlier outbid Woodward and Lofthouse ' brand, top scorer with 30 goals. Both were overhauled in 1963 by Bobby Charlton. Five years after the Matthews Final led Lofthouse Bolton Wanderers on 3 May 1958 as team captain for the final victory against Manchester United, scoring another two goals, with his second goal was controversial, as the duel the opposing goalkeeper Harry Gregg he with the ball pushed into the goal. Lofthouse was after the encounter to the challenge, but the hit the referee was evaluated as a regular meet.
On 26 November of the same year Lofthouse completed against Wales at the age of 33 years, his last international match and officially joined in January 1960 due to an ankle injury back. His last club Game of Lofthouse on December 17, 1960, where he drew upon against Birmingham City a serious knee injury.
After his playing career Lofthouse worked from July 1961, first in the extended coaching staff at Burnden Park and then in 1967 Kotrainer in Bolton. In 1968 he took over the task manager only temporary and then was on 18 December of the same year until 1970 on a permanent solution. Before he worked as a talent scout for his club, he worked in the administration area. In 1978, Lofthouse then dedicated members of the board before then in 1985, at the age of 60 years, again served briefly as interim coach. In 1986, President of the Lofthouse Bolton Wanderers.
Lofthouse has received many honors for his resignation as a footballer. On 2 December 1989 he was made an honorary citizen of Bolton and was followed on 1 January 1994, the Order of the British Empire as an OBE. Three years later, his club decided to name the east stand after him. In 2002 Lofthouse was then included as one of the first soccer players in the English Hall of Fame.
Recently, on the occasion of his 80th birthday, a celebration was held at the Reebok Stadium. Moreover, it was an initiative of Gordon Taylor, president of the Professional Footballer Association Professional Footballers' Association, supports, which aimed to beat Lofthouse knighted. He died on 15 January 2011 at the age of 85 years in a nursing home in his hometown.
Achievements
- English Cup: 1958
- England's Footballer of the Year: 1953