Ron Greenwood
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Ronald Greenwood | ||
| Date of birth | 11 November 1921 | ||
| Place of birth | Worsthorne, England | ||
| Date of death | 9 February 2006 (aged 84) | ||
| Place of death | Sudbury, Suffolk, England | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Chelsea | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1945–1949 | Bradford Park Avenue | 59 | (0) |
| 1949–1952 | Brentford | 142 | (1) |
| 1952–1955 | Chelsea | 65 | (0) |
| 1955–1956 | Fulham | 42 | (0) |
| National team | |||
| 1952 | England B | 1 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1961–1974 | West Ham United | ||
| 1977–1982 | England | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Ronald 'Ron' Greenwood CBE (11 November 1921 – 9 February 2006) was an English football player and manager, best known for being manager of the English national football team from 1977 until 1982, as well as being manager of West Ham United for 13 years, a time during which the club gained much of its fame. That of England manager was his final role in football.
Ron Greenwood was born in the village of Worsthorne, near Burnley, Lancashire, but moved to London as a child during the 1930s Depression. He was educated at the Wembley County Grammar School which now forms part of Alperton Community School in Middlesex, leaving at the age of 14 to be an apprentice sign-writer.
Greenwood played as a centre-half, joining Chelsea as an amateur whilst training as an apprentice sign-writer. During World War II he served in the Royal Air Force in Northern Ireland and guested for Belfast Celtic. In 1945, he left Chelsea for Bradford Park Avenue, and made 59 appearances over the next four seasons.
In 1949, Greenwood moved to the club he supported as a boy, Brentford, his £9500 fee breaking the club's incoming transfer record. He made 142 league appearances and scored one goal. After three years at Brentford, he returned to Chelsea, where he played 65 times and won a First Division winners' medal in 1954-55 under Ted Drake. That summer, he moved to Fulham, where he made another 42 league appearances before retiring at the end of the 1955-1956 season. He was never capped for his country, though he did make a single 'B' team appearance, whilst at Brentford, in a 1-0 victory against the Netherlands, on 23 March 1952, at the Olympishe Stadion, Amsterdam.
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