the Famous British footballer, older brother of British football legend Bobby Charlton Jack Charlton died at the age of 85 years. The former defender of “Leeds” in the last year was diagnosed with lymphoma, and developed dementia. The football Association of Ireland, team which was coached by Charlton, stated that he “forever changed Irish football in a better way”.
He spent 35 games for England as a Central defender, including all six matches during their victorious only time in the history of the world Cup in 1966. Jack Charlton was born in the mining village of Ashington in Northumberland in Ireland may 8, 1935 and was the eldest son of a miner Bob and his wife Cissy, cousin of Newcastle football legends Jackie Milburn. Trained in the football team of Washington before moving into the ranks of the football club from Leeds in 1950. In the first team “Leeds United”, he was in 1952 and had spent his entire 21-year playing career, setting a club record for number of appearances – 773, before finishing his playing career in 1973. In 1967 he was named footballer of the year the English football Association.
Jack Charlton has won several awards, including the title of champion of England in 1969, FA Cup in 1972 and two in the UEFA Cup. He made his debut in England at the age of 30 in the match against Scotland in April of 1965, which ended with the score 2:2, and a little over a year later, he played a role in the final victory in the world Cup with 4:2 over Germany.
After his retirement as a player, Charlton became a successful coach. He started his coaching staff with Middlesbrough, he guided the team to the top division in 1974, and in 1980 he repeated this achievement with “Sheffield Wednesday”. However, best remember him as coach of the national team of Ireland. Charlton led the Irish team for the first time in history in the final tournament of the European championship in 1988 and 1990, Ireland reached the world Cup quarter-finals, where they lost to Italy. Charlton was awarded the medal of “freedom of Dublin city” in 1994 in recognition of his achievements and left his post as coach after the team failed to advance to the final tournament of the European championship 1996. At the time he was 60 years old, and he retired.
At Charlton for many years had a strained relationship with his brother Bobby, but they’ve grown close again in Liverpool at the ceremony, sports award, the BBC in 2008, when Jack gave his brother a lifetime achievement award.
