Sir Alfred Ernest Ramsay [3] ( Eng. Sir Alfred Ernest Ramsey ; January 22, 1920 , Dagenham , London , England - April 28, 1999 , Ipswich , Suffolk , England), better known as Alf Ramsay (also used is closer to the original pronunciation Alf Ramsey ) ( English Alf Ramsey , MFA : [ælf ˈræmzɪ] ) - English football player (right back ) and coach. Under his leadership, the England team won the 1966 World Cup .
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Full name | Alfred Ernest Ramsay | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | General (The General) [1] [2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Was born | January 22, 1920 London , England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Is dead | April 28, 1999 (79 years) Ipswich , England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Citizenship | England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Growth | 173 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Position | defender | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Biography
Born in the London suburb of Dagenham in 1920 in the family of a straw merchant. During the Second World War , in 1940-1943, he played under an amateur contract for " Portsmouth " in the London military league organized in those years; in 1943 he moved to Southampton , where he began to play as an amateur as well, in 1944 he became a professional; for Southampton spent six seasons. He started as an insider, but was soon transferred to the right edge of the defense, where he played the rest of his career [1] . In the first post-war season, in which the All-English Championship was held (1946/47), Southampton was in the second division and took 14th place there. The following season, the team became third, in the 1948/49 season, this result was repeated. At the beginning of his performances for the club, Ramsey did not have a permanent place in the line-up, but gradually became one of the important players. On December 2, 1948, Ramsay made his debut in the England team in a match against Switzerland at Highbury , the game ended with the victory of his team with a score of 6: 0 [2] . In the summer of 1949, Ramsay moved to Tottenham Hotspur in London, the transfer amounted to 21 thousand pounds sterling [1] . In his first season in the London team, Ramsay won the Second Division . In the summer of 1950, Alf, as part of the national team, took part in the World Championship , spent on the field all three matches played by the British; This tournament was unsuccessful for his team: they lost two games in a group of three and dropped out of further struggle. In the 1950/51 season, Ramsey became the champion of England as part of Tottenham; in the summer of 1951, he won the English Super Cup . Alf Ramsay was a slow, but smart player, competently choosing a position, tough, physically strong, playing well in a pass [1] [2] . Constantly was a penalty taker. The trainer of that timeSpurs ” Arthur Rowey , in the tactical constructions of which Alf occupied a very important place, had a great influence on Ramsey as a future coach when, at the end of his career, he began to be interested in coaching [1] . November 25, 1953 Ramsay played his last match for the England team - against Hungary , one of the strongest teams in the world of that time, this game ended with the defeat of the British with a score of 3: 6. In total for the England team he spent 32 games, scored 3 goals. In 1955, Ramsay ended his playing career. He is considered one of the best right-backs in the history of English football [4] .
Almost immediately after the end of his playing career, in August 1955, Ramsey headed the Ipswich Town Club, which was then in the southern group of the Third Division . In his first season, he won the third place in this competition, and the next (1956/57) - won it. After three mediocre seasons in the Second Division, the team won it in the 1960/61 season and advanced to the top division. In the 1961/62 season, the Ipswich Club sensationally [2] won the English Championship. At the end of 1962, Ramsay led the England team, combined work for several months in it and at the club, and in April 1963 left the post of Ipswich coach, concentrating on working with the team. In Ipswich, and then in the national team, Ramsay used an unusual tactical scheme without extreme midfielders and attackers, where the emphasis was solely on the attacking game in the center, the England team called the Wingless Miracle for using this scheme [1] . Immediately upon joining the national team, Alf promised to win the 1966 World Cup home for the English [1] [2] . However, his first match at the helm of the national team, the game against France in the first qualifying round of Euro 1964 on February 27, 1963, ended with a crushing defeat 2: 5.
World Cup 1966 ended in victory for the British, which included Jeff Hurst , Bobby Charlton , Bobby Moore and Gordon Banks ; in the final in overtime, they beat West Germany with a score of 4: 2. The British used a new tactical lineup of 4–4–2 at that tournament. This victory is still the only one for the English at the world championships. For the victory at the World Cup Ramsey received in 1967 a knight's title.
At the European Championships-1968, the British, led by Ramsey, took third place, losing 0: 1 in the semi-finals to the Yugoslavs after the goal of Jaich in the final minutes, and in the match for third place they beat the USSR with a score of 2: 0. Then in the game of Englishmen began regress. At the 1970 World Cup , the England team lost in the quarter finals of West Germany 2: 3 in overtime, Gerd Muller scored the winning goal for the Germans; at Euro 1972 they lost in the same stage to the same Germans. In the spring of 1974, when the task to get to the next world championship was already failed (in the qualifying group England was weaker than the future bronze medalists of the World Cup, the Poles under the leadership of Kazimierz Gursky ), Ramsey resigned. His last match on the English national team coaching bridge was a friendly match with the Portuguese (0-0).
After a three-year hiatus in coaching, Alf led Birmingham City for the 1977/78 season; he failed to achieve serious results there, taking 11th place in the big leagues.
In the 1979/80 season he was a technical advisor at the Panathinaikos club ( Athens , Greece ). He then tried sports journalism, and at one time led a column in the newspaper The Daily Mirror .
Ramsey as a coach was an excellent tactician, was known for his calmness, composure and toughness.
In the last years of his life, Ramsay suffered from Alzheimer's disease and prostate cancer . June 9, 1998, during the next World Cup , he suffered a stroke . [2] He died in Ipswich on April 28, 1999.
In 2002, he was posthumously included in the Hall of Fame of English football . [2] One of the streets of Ipswich is named in his honor, and on it is a monument erected for the money collected by fans of Ipswich Town FC. [2]
Achievements
As a player
Tottenham Hotspur
- Champion of the Second Division : 1949/50
- First Division Champion: 1950/51
- England Super Cup Winner : 1951
As a trainer
Ipswich Town
- Champion of the Third Southern Division : 1956/57
- Champion of the Second Division : 1960/61
- First Division Champion: 1961/62
England team
- World Champion : 1966
- Bronze medalist of the European Championship : 1968
Coaching statistics
Team | A country | Beginning of work | Shutdown | Indicators | ||||
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M | AT | H | P | % wins | ||||
Ipswich Town | August 1955 | april 1963 | 369 | 176 | 75 | 118 | 47.7 | |
England [5] | May 1963 [6] | May 1974 [6] | 113 | 69 | 27 | 17 | 61.1 | |
Birmingham City | September 1977 | March 1978 | 26 | ten | four | 12 | 38.5 |
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 “The Man Who Did Not Laugh” - article on mag.football.ua
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Article on Championat.ru (Inaccessible link) . The date of circulation is May 30, 2009. Archived June 19, 2008.
- ↑ According to modern transcription rules, the Ramsey surname should be transmitted to Russian as Ramzi (cf. Ramsey, George , Ramsey, Craig ), but in this case, the Russian-language sources have established the Ramsay spelling, based on the older rules for the transfer of English surnames in Russian.
- ↑ “Chronograph. Football dates (unavailable link)
- ↑ England Hall of Fame. The Football Association.
- ↑ 1 2 England's Coaches / Managers - Alf Ramsey. England Football Online.
Links
- Player and (eng.) On soccerbase.com
- (English)
- Ramsey, Alf (Eng.) On the Find a Grave website
- Ramsey to get medal at last? (eng.)
- Biography on the FIFA website (Eng.)
- Statistics on englandfootballonline.com (eng.)
- “The man who did not laugh” - article on mag.football.ua
- Article on footballplayers.ru
- Article on Champion.ru