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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Michael Trebilcock | ||
| Date of birth | 29 November 1944 | ||
| Place of birth | Gunnislake, Cornwall, England | ||
| Position(s) | Winger | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1960–1962 | Tavistock | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1962–1965 | Plymouth Argyle | 71 | (27) |
| 1965–1968 | Everton | 11 | (3) |
| 1968–1972 | Portsmouth | 109 | (33) |
| 1972–1973 | Torquay United | 24 | (10) |
| 1973 | → Yeovil Town (loan) | 4 | (3) |
| 1973–1974 | Weymouth | 33 | (13) |
| 1974–1976 | Western Suburbs | 23 | (7) |
| Total | 265 | (95) | |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Michael Trebilcock (born 29 November 1944) is an English retired professional footballer. He played primarily as a winger and is most famous for scoring twice in the 1966 FA Cup Final for Everton, becoming the first black player to score in an FA Cup Final.[1] Trebilcock is described as a "black mixed heritage player" by sociologist Mark Christian, who notes that the label of first black Everton player is often wrongly given to Cliff Marshall, "due to [Trebilcock's] ambiguous black mixed heritage".[2] Players of mixed heritage are now widely regarded as 'Black' e.g. Walter Tull and Trebilcock was acknowledged as Everton's first Black player by authors Bill Hern and David Gleave in their book Football's Black Pioneers - The Stories of the First Black Players to Represent the 92 League Clubs.[3]
- ^ See how your Everton FC knowledge compares to our FA Cup final fact file, Liverpool Echo, 28 May 2009.
- ^ Christian, Mark (2011). "Mixing up the game: Social and historical contours of black mixed heritage players in British football". In Burdsey, Daniel (ed.). Race, Ethnicity and Football: Persisting Debates and Emergent Issues. Abingdon: Routledge. pp. 131–144. ISBN 9780415882057.
- ^ Hern, Bill; Gleave, David (2020). Football's Black Pioneers. Leicester: Conker Editions. pp. 168–169. ISBN 9781999900854.