World Soccer - UK (2021-03)

“I was happy for the England team in 1966 and Big Jack

[Charlton] did a great job. But you can’t help thinking

about what might have been”

Peter Swan on his ban from football before the1966 World Cup

OBITUARIES

JOHN MORTIMORE

(1934-2021)

As a centre-half, Mortimore spent the

majority of his playing career at Chelsea,

starring in the League Cup-winning side

of1965, before going on to a successful

managerial career. After spells at Greek

side Ethnikos Piraeus and Portsmouth,

he took charge of Benfica – in two

separate spells – winning the league in

both1977 and1987, plus back-to-back

Portuguese Cups in1986 and1987. He

also managed Real Betis, Belenenses

and, briefly, Southampton, before later

becoming a club president at The Dell.

PETER SWAN

(1936-2021)

Swan joined Sheffield Wednesday in

and left in1973, but only played 275

league games due to an eight-year ban

from football. In1962, the centre-half,

along with two team-mates, placed a

bet on his side to lose to Ipswich Town,

with the Owls subsequently going down

2-0. An investigation byThe Sunday

Peopleuncovered the scandal, and Swan

was handed a four-month jail sentence

and a lifetime ban from football.

Although his ban was lifted in1972,

allowing him to re-join his former club,

Swan’s career was unfulfilled. He won

England caps between1960 and1962,

and may well have been in contention

for World Cup selection in1966.

FRANK AROK

(1932-2021)

The Serbian worked as a coach in

Australia for over 30 years, most

notably taking charge of the national

team for six years in the1980s.

JUSTO TEJADA

(1933-2021)

The striker spent nine years at Barcelona,

scoring 92 goals in194 games, after

joining in1952. In1957 he played in the

very first game at the Nou Camp, setting

up the first goal in the stadium’s history

and scoring the second himself. He

joined the club’s greatest rivals, Real

Madrid, in1961 and spent two years

there, before ending his career at Barca’s

second-greatestrivals, Espanyol.

LUTON SHELTON

(1 98 5- 2021 )

Jamaica’s record scorer with 35 goals,

Shelton made his name at Kingston side

Harbour View before moving to Europe

to play for Helsingborgs, Sheffield United,

Valerenga, AaB, Karabukspor and finally,

Volga Nizhny Novgorod. He returned to

his first club in 2017 to play one more

game – and score one last goal – before

retiring. He passed away at the age of

35,havingsufferedwithaformof

motor neurone disease since 2018.

YVON DOUIS

(1935-2021)

A scorer of almost 200 Ligue1 goals

with Lille, Le Havre, Monaco and Cannes,

the striker also won 20 France caps and

scored four times. He played at the

World Cup and scored in the third-place

play-off match against West Germany.

GUSTAVO PENA

(1942-2021)

The defender won 82 caps for Mexico

between1961 and1974, captaining the

team at the1966 World Cup and again

in1970, when Mexico were hosts. He hit

the winning goal against Belgium in the

1970 group stage, which guaranteed

the team a place in the quarter-finals

for the first time in their history, where

they lost 4-1 to eventual finalists Italy.

CHRISTOPHER MABOULOU

(1990-2021)

French-born Congo international who

played for Chateauroux, Bastia, PAS

Giannina, Nancy and Evian. He suffered

a heart attack in a kickabout with friends.

Mark Gleeson

MEHRDAD MINAVAND

(1975-2021)

No Iranian player made more

Champions League appearances than

Minavand, who featured 21 times in the

competition in three years at Austrian

side Sturm Graz, where he was part of

the double-winning side of1998-99.

The left-sided midfielder also won 68

international caps, scoring four goals,

and featuring at the1998 World Cup.

JEAN KALALA N’TUMBA

(1949-2021)

Winner of the Africa Cup of Nations

with Zaire in1974 and also played at the

World Cup in West Germany the same

year. He won the African Champions

Cup with AS Vita Club in1973. His son

Zico Tumba also played for DR Congo.

Mark Gleeson

JOZEF VENGLOS

(1936-2021)

Venglos had an extraordinary managerial

career that lasted almost 40 years and

took him to Australia, Portugal, Malaysia,

England, Turkey, Oman and Scotland.

Assistant coach when Czechoslovakia

won Euro ’76, he took charge four years

later when the team finished third. He

returned to guide the side to Italia ’90,

then became the first non-British or Irish

person to take charge of an English top-

flight club by taking the Aston Villa job.

He claimed another significant record

by becoming Slovakia’s first-ever coach

following their independence in1993,

and also managed Celtic in1998-99,

overseeing a 5-1 defeat of Rangers.

Jamaica legend...

Luton Shelton

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John Mortimore