Teddy Duckworth
Teddy " Ducky " Duckworth, actually Thomas Crook Duckworth (* 1882 in Blackpool, England; † unknown) was an English footballer and football coach. As a coach, he won several Swiss championships and led the Swiss national football team to their biggest success to date.
Club career
His career began as an amateur Duckworth at his hometown club, Blackpool FC, who played at this time in the second division. 1902 wrote of the Right Wing his first professional contract and moved to London at West Ham United in the Southern League. There he not made the leap to the first team and returned to Lancashire, where signed for Blackburn Rovers.
His time with the standing in a relegation battle Rovers but also had little success, Duckworth it brought only one to a league or Cupeinsatz and left after two years the club to return to his hometown club. At Blackpool, he once again became a regular player before a serious knee injury of his career to an abrupt end.
Coaching career
During the First World War, Duckworth was severely wounded at the Battle of the Somme and had to stay in the hospital one and a half years. After his recovery mediated a mutual friend, the English record swimmer David Billington, 1921 contact with the club's management of Servette FC Genève, which was in search of a professional advisor. Duckworth received the item, and thus became the first full-time coach of the club.
The British introduced new training methods and sent the players among other things, to dance classes. In the regional championship in Western Switzerland Servette remained unbeaten and could in the final round to succeed against the other two regional champions. Thus Duckworth had brought a team to Otto Fehlmann and Robert Pache already in his debut season for the title.
In 1924, the Swiss Association decided the team for the Summer Olympics prepare in three regional groups, where Duckworth was responsible for the western Swiss group, while the other two groups of Jimmy Hogan and Izidor furriers were trained. Duckworth charge of the national team finally during the final tournament in Paris, where the Swiss sensationally came to the finals and eventually documents the team of Uruguay with 0:3. This is to date the biggest success of Swiss football history and brought the Swiss beside the silver medal also the unofficial title of European Champion in.
At club level, Duckworth remained with Servette more successful and brought in 1925 and 1926 two more championship titles in 1928 and the first Cup victory in the club's history. In the summer of 1929 Duckworth left the garnet red to move to France, where he took over as coach in Rhône Sportive Terreaux in Lyon, but a few months later he returned to Servette, where he still brought the team after a poor start to the season in the final round which was won convincingly with wins in all four games. Duckworth stayed one more season at the club before he was replaced by former player Karl Rappan.
About his future career progress or whereabouts were previously no information to elicit.
Achievements
- Olympic Games 1924: Silver Medal
- Swiss Championship: 1922, 1925, 1926, 1930
- Swiss Cup: 1928
- Football players (England)
- Football coach (England)
- Born in 1882
- Died in the 20th century
- Man
- Football coach ( Switzerland )