Alan Hinton

Alan Hinton
Hinton announcing a Seattle Sounders FC match in 2011
Personal information
Full name Alan Thomas Hinton
Date of birth (1942-10-06) 6 October 1942 (age 81)
Place of birth Wednesbury, England
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Position(s) Left wing
Youth career
1959–1961 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1961–1964 Wolverhampton Wanderers 75 (29)
1964–1967 Nottingham Forest 112 (24)
1967–1975 Derby County 253 (63)
1976 Borrowash Victoria
1977 Dallas Tornado 24 (4)
1978 Vancouver Whitecaps 29 (1)
International career
1962–1964 England 3 (1)
1963–1964 England U23 7 (6)
Managerial career
1979 Tulsa Roughnecks
1980–1982 Seattle Sounders
1984 Vancouver Whitecaps
1985–1990 Tacoma Stars
1994 Seattle Sounders
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Alan Thomas Hinton (born 6 October 1942) is an English former footballer who played at the top level of English football from 1961 to 1975.[2] He famously wore white football boots.[3]

  1. ^ "Alan Hinton". englandfootballonline.com. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
  2. ^ Zielonka, John. "Goal.com Exclusive: Alan Hinton Talks Soccer". Yahoo! Sports.
  3. ^ Lewis, Michael (19 April 2016). "Alan Hinton: the stylist in white boots who became America's Mr Soccer". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 December 2016.