| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Harold Edward Wright[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 3 June 1909[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Tottenham, London, England | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | April 1994 (aged 84)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | King's Lynn, England[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| Harwich & Parkeston | |||||||||||||||||
| 1932–1935 | Charlton Athletic | 38 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1936–1937 | Aldershot | 28 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| Derby County | 25 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| Chelmsford City | |||||||||||||||||
| 1946–1949 | Colchester United | 50 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 141 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1935 | England XI | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1959 | Lebanon | ||||||||||||||||
| 1961–1963 | India U19 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1963–1964 | India | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Harold Edward Wright (3 June 1909 – April 1994) was an English professional footballer and manager who played as a goalkeeper in the Football League for Charlton Athletic, Aldershot, and Derby County. He managed the Lebanon national team in 1959 and the India national team between 1963 and 1964.
Wright began his playing career with Harwich & Parkeston, but by 1932 he was on the books at Charlton, where he remained for three years. He spent time with Aldershot and then Derby County before the outbreak of World War II. He also appeared for Southern League sides Chelmsford City and Colchester United. He represented an England XI once in 1935 against an Anglo-Scot team in a friendly game for the King George V Jubilee Trust Fund.[2]
Wright took up a coaching role at Guildford City following his retirement in 1949, before holding similar positions at Walsall and Luton Town. He was named as head coach at Everton in 1956, and later coached the India youth team between 1961 and 1963 in preparation for the 1963 AFC Youth Championship. In 1963, he inherited Syed Abdul Rahim's India national team, where Wright led the side to the runners-up spot in the 1964 Asian Cup, which remains the most notable triumph in professional football for India.[3][4]
- ^ a b c d Whitehead, Jeff; Drury, Kevin (2008). The Who's Who of Colchester United: The Layer Road Years. Derby: Breedon Books. p. 257. ISBN 978-1-85983-629-3.
- ^ "England – International Results 1930–1939 – Details". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
- ^ Nandi, Dhritiman (23 August 2015). "Performance Of Foreign Coaches In Indian National Football Team". Indianfootballnetwork.com. Archived from the original on 23 June 2016. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
- ^ Media Team, AIFF (15 August 2022). "Indian Football Down the Years: Looking back at the glorious moments". www.the-aiff.com. New Delhi: All India Football Federation. Archived from the original on 21 September 2022. Retrieved 20 October 2022.