Jack Charlton

Jack Charlton

Jack Charlton (8 May 1935 – 10 July 2020) was an English professional footballer and manager who played as a centre-back. He was part of the England national team that won the 1966 World Cup and managed the Republic of Ireland national team from 1986 to 1996 achieving two World Cup and one European Championship appearances. He spent his entire club career with Leeds United from 1950 to 1973, helping the club to the Second Division title (1963–64), First Division title (1968–69), FA Cup (1972), League Cup (1968), Charity Shield (1969), Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (1968 and 1971), as well as one other promotion from the Second Division (1955–56) and five second-place finishes in the First Division, two FA Cup final defeats and one Inter-Cities Fairs Cup final defeat. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jack Charlton has received more than 3,754,996 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Jack Charlton is the 809th most popular soccer player (down from 485th in 2019), the 1,949th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,373rd in 2019) and the 41st most popular British Soccer Player.