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The Eddie Lewis Story
Neilson N. Kaufman
其他書名
From Manchester to Soweto
出版Derwent Press, 2008
主題Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / Personal MemoirsSports & Recreation / SoccerSports & Recreation / Coaching / Soccer
ISBN18466703309781846670336
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=MuiYOAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Eddie Lewis: a lifetime devoted to soccer, 50 years of coaching on two continents... a journey from Manchester, England to Soweto, South Africa.
This biography tells of the remarkable story of Eddie Lewis. As a young boy growing up in a small suburb of Manchester, he always had a dream of one day playing football for the great Manchester United. In November 1949, his dream came true when he joined the club and later become one of the original Busby Babes and a member of the team which won the first FA Youth Cup, three years later he scored on his Football League debut.
In subsequent years Eddie went onto play with many of the great United players like Bobby Charlton, Duncan Edwards, Roger Byrne and many others, a number of whom sadly lost their lives in the Munich air crash of February 1958, but are never to be forgotten. Later in his playing career he was part of two promotion campaigns to the First Division, what is today known as the Premier League with West Ham United and Leyton Orient.
In March 1970, he and his family moved to South Africa. There, Eddie coached many of the top teams including Wits in Johannesburg, the Soweto-based Kaizer Chiefs and Moroka Swallows-all to great success. Today, he is still considered as one of the great tacticians of the modern game.
In September 2007, he was honoured as one of just fifty recipients to receive an award for his excellent contribution to South African football from both the Confederation of African Football-CAF and the South African Football Association-SAFA, an award presented to him by the Premier of the Western Cape, Mr. Ebrahim Rasool.
About the Author:
Neilson N. Kaufman was born in Holborn, London on3 October 1950. He has supported Leyton Orient Football Club for over fifty years and has served as the club's Honorary Historian since 1972, when appointed by the then club chairman Brian Winston. He moved to South Africa in August 1981. Today he is a senior manager for a leading Johannesburg publishing house. This is Neil's ninth book to be published. His last two books, "The Goal Gourmet: The Peter Kitchen Story" and also "The Complete Record of Leyton Orient," were both published in 2006.