Albert Campbell (footballer) explained

Albert Campbell
Birth Date:4 January 1938
Birth Place:Belfast, Northern Ireland
Position:Centre-half
Years1:1954–1970
Clubs1:Crusaders
Caps1:529
Goals1:26
Nationalyears1:1963–1964
Nationalteam1:Northern Ireland
Nationalcaps1:2
Nationalgoals1:0

Albert Campbell (born 4 January 1938 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a former footballer who played with Crusaders in the Irish League in the 1960s, and who won two full international caps for Northern Ireland (the first Crusaders player to be capped): against Wales in the 1963 Home Internationals and Switzerland in a World Cup match in 1964. He also won a 'B' international cap against France in 1959.

With Crusaders, he won the Ulster Cup and County Antrim Shield, and was part of the club's first Irish Cup-winning teams in 1967 and 1968. He was named the Ulster Footballer of the Year for the 1960/61 season.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. M. Brodie (ed.), Northern Ireland Soccer Yearbook 2009-2010, p. 102. Belfast:Ulster Tatler Publications