Thomas Casey (11 March 1930 – 13 January 2009) was a Northern Ireland international footballer, coach and football manager, whose career in professional football spanned 30 years.In 1965, he played abroad in the Eastern Canada Professional Soccer League with Toronto Inter-Roma.
Casey as a Newcastle United player | |||
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Thomas Casey | ||
Date of birth | 11 March 1930 | ||
Place of birth | Comber, County Down, Northern Ireland | ||
Date of death | 13 January 2009 | (aged 78)||
Place of death | Somerset, England | ||
Position(s) | Wing half | ||
Youth career | |||
Belfast YMCA | |||
– | East Belfast | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
–1949 | Bangor | ||
1949–1950 | Leeds United | 4 | (0) |
1950–1952 | Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic | 66 | (1) |
1952–1958 | Newcastle United | 116 | (8) |
1958–1959 | Portsmouth | 24 | (1) |
1959–1963 | Bristol City | 122 | (9) |
1963–1965 | Gloucester City | 60 | (6) |
1965 | Toronto Inter-Roma | ||
1967 | Ammanford Town | ||
National team | |||
1955–1958 | Northern Ireland | 12 | (2) |
Teams managed | |||
1963–1965 | Gloucester City (player-manager) | ||
1967–1969 | Lisburn Distillery (player-manager) | ||
1972 | Everton (caretaker-manager) | ||
1974–1975 | Northern Ireland Youth Team | ||
1975–1976 | Grimsby Town | ||
1977 | K.R. Reykjavik | ||
1977–1978 | Harstad I.L. | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Over the course of his three-decade career, this Northern Irish footballer played for his country's national team, as well as for Leeds United, Bournemouth, Newcastle United, Portsmouth, and Bristol City, and also managed several football clubs, including Gloucester City and the Northern Ireland Youth Team.
He spent his youth in Comber, Northern Ireland, and lived out the last days of his life in Somerset, England. He and his wife Margaret raised two children; his grandson Connor Pain also had a career as a footballer.
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He played his youth career for the Belfast YMCA and the East Belfast Football Club and went on to make his senior career debut for the Bangor F.C.
Between 1949 and 1963, he scored a senior career total of twenty-one goals.
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He and Harry Gregg both played for Northern Ireland in the finals leading up to the 1958 FIFA World Cup.
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● Tommy Casey was born on March 11, 1930 (age 79) in Northern Ireland ● He is a celebrity soccer player
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