Charlie Williams (footballer, born 1873)
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Full name | Charles Albert Williams | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 19 November 1873 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Welling, Kent, England | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 29 July 1952 | (aged 78)||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) |
Goalkeeper | ||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
1888–1889 |
Phoenix | ||||||||||||||||
1889–1890 | Clarence | ||||||||||||||||
1890–1891 | Erith | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
1891–1894 | Woolwich Arsenal | 19 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
1894–1902 | Manchester City | 232 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
1902–1905 | Tottenham Hotspur | 37 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
1905–1906 | Norwich City | 29 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
1906–1908 | Brentford | 59 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Total | 376 | (1) | |||||||||||||||
Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
1908–1910 | Denmark | ||||||||||||||||
1911–1912 | Fluminense | ||||||||||||||||
B 93 | |||||||||||||||||
Lille | |||||||||||||||||
1924–1926 |
Fluminense | ||||||||||||||||
1928 |
America FC (RJ) | ||||||||||||||||
1929–1930 | Botafogo | ||||||||||||||||
1930–1931 |
Flamengo | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Charles Albert Williams (19 November 1873 – 29 July 1952) was an English football goalkeeper and manager, who was the first goalkeeper known to have scored a goal in a first-class match.[1]
Playing career
Williams started his career as a youth with minor amateur clubs Phoenix and Erith before joining
However, Williams was in goal for some of Arsenal's most heavy defeats that season, including a 6–0 defeat to Newcastle United and a 5–0 loss to
At City, he was regular goalkeeper for eight seasons, and while there he won a
After the 1901–02 season Manchester City were relegated and Williams was released. His next club was Tottenham Hotspur who signed him in May 1902.[4] His debut for Spurs occurred on 15 September 1902 and was a Western League game against Millwall Athletic, which Tottenham won 4–3.[4][5] After George Clawley moved to Southampton, Williams became first choice keeper and was more prominent in the 1903–04 season until he left the club in October 1904.[4]
He later had spells with Norwich City and Brentford,[6] making 59 Southern League appearances for the latter club.[7]
Coaching career
Already in 1905 and 1907 there are reports of Williams taking charge of Københavns Boldklub (KB) in Denmark. In the Danish source it is written, that Williams had quit football already in 1905.[8] After retiring as a player, he became a manager and took charge of the
He also later managed the Danish club B 93 and French side Olympique Lillois.
Early 1911
From May 1924 until September 1926 he returned to the helm of Fluminense, winning the Rio-Championship of 1924 and a second and third place in the years thereafter.
In Rio he also managed
Personal life
Williams was one of eleven siblings and worked as a teenager at the Royal Woolwich Arsenal munitions factory as a "Moulder". His younger sister Ruth Ellen Williams married [13] Joseph Smith, the son of [also named] Joseph Smith - of the Royal Woolwich Arsenal Dial Square Workshop, cited in the "Founding Fathers" [section] of 'Arsenal 125 Years in the Making: The official illustrated history 1886-2011' ,[14] as unsuccessfully attempting to negotiate with the local cricket club for use of its pitch for Dial Square workshop's nascent works' football team. "“… in 1886, one Joseph Smith had tried to persuade the cricket club at the Woolwich Arsenal to allow part of their pitch to be used for football, but they would not hear of it..."
Norfolk-born Smith was among the vast numbers of Norfolk rural workers who migrated for work to London and Woolwich in the mid-19th Century. [15]
In 1894, coinciding with his transfer to Manchester City, Williams aged 20, married [16] 17 year old Edith Emily Taylor, two months before their daughter was born in Levenhulme, Manchester. [17] The couple had separated by the time of the 1911 census, when Edith and their daughter Mary Ann Williams were back living with Edith's parents in Plumstead, Kent. Edith remarried in 1928 [18]
After his retirement, Williams remained in Brazil for the remainder of his life and died in 29 July 1952 in Rio de Janeiro, aged 78. He was buried in the Cemitério dos Ingleses in the Gamboa district in Rio. [19] Reports say he had a son, also named Charlie, who was a referee in the 1950s.
References
- ^ Rice, Simon (5 January 2012). "Goal scoring goalies: Keepers who found the net". The Independent. London. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
- ^ "Williams Charlie Image 1 Manchester City 1896". Vintage Footballers. Retrieved 24 December 2018.
- ISBN 1-899429-03-4.
- ^ a b c d Goodwin 1992, p. 385.
- ^ Soar 1995, p. 236.
- ISBN 1-874427-57-7.
- ISBN 0951526200.
- ^ Idrætsbladets Julenummer, 1933 ("Udenlandske Fodboldtrænere i Danmark" af Harry Bendixen)
- ^ Diário de Notícia (RJ): "Um treinador profissional há 23 annos passados", 27 July 1939.
- ^ O Pais (RJ), 17 March 1911, p. 9
- Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundationand RSSSF Brazil, 20 March 2012.
- ^ Charles Williams Archived 24 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Flapédia, 19 February 2014.
- ^ Ruth Williams Registration Year 1904, Registration Quarter Jul-Aug-Sep, Registration district Woolwich, Inferred County London, Volume 1d, Page 2380
- ^ [ISBN 10: 060062353X ISBN 13: 9780600623533]
- ^ MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY MIGRATION FROM NORFOLK TO LONDON: Migratory patterns, migrants’ social mobility and the impact of the railway? Dissertation for an MA in Historical Research, Institute of Historical Research, Roger Woods, September 2014. https://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/5779/1/Roger_Woods_-_Migration_from_Norfolk.pdf
- ^ Charles Albert Williams, Woolwich, London, Apr-May-Jun Qtr, Vol. 1d, Page 1548
- ^ WILLIAMS, MARY ANN mmn TAYLOR GRO Reference: 1894 S Quarter in CHORLTON Volume 08C Page 808
- ^ Dec Qtr 1928 • Woolwich, Kent, England Spouse: Arthur Israel Poyser, Woolwich Vol 1d, Page 2327
- ^ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125033444/charles-albert-williams
- ^ "The Boy in Brazil". 29 May 2018.
Bibliography
- Soar, Phil (1995). Tottenham Hotspur The Official Illustrated History 1882–1995. Hamlyn. ISBN 0-600-58706-1.
- Goodwin, Bob (1992). The Spurs Alphabet. ACL & Polar Publishing (UK) Ltd. ISBN 0-9514862-8-4.