Duncan Edwards

Duncan Edwards

The statue of Edwards in the centre of his home town of Dudley
Personal information
Full name	Duncan Edwards
Date of birth	(1936-10-01)1 October 1936
Place of birth	Woodside, Dudley, England
Date of death	21 February 1958(1958-02-21) (aged 21)
Place of death	Munich, West Germany
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Position(s)	Left half
Youth career
1952–1953	Manchester United
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1953–1958	Manchester United	151	(20)
International career
1949–1952	England Schoolboys	9	(0)
1954–1957	England U23	6	(5)
1953–1954	England B	4	(0)
1955–1957	England	18	(5)
Signature
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Duncan Edwards (1 October 1936 – 21 February 1958) was an English footballer who played as a left-half for Manchester United and the England national team. He was one of the Busby Babes, the young United team formed under manager Matt Busby in the mid-1950s, playing 177 matches for the club. He was noted for his physical strength, toughness, and level of authority on the pitch, and has been ranked amongst the toughest players of all time. One of eight players who died as a result of the Munich air disaster, he survived initially but succumbed to his injuries in hospital two weeks later. Many of his contemporaries have described him as one of the best, if not the best, players with whom they had played.^[1]

Born in Woodside, Dudley, Edwards signed for Manchester United as a teenager and went on to become the youngest player to play in the Football League First Division and at the time the youngest England player since the Second World War, going on to play 18 times for his country at top level. In a professional career of less than five years he helped United to win two Football League championships and two FA Charity Shields, and reach the semi-finals of the European Cup.