Ken Armstrong (footballer, born 1924)

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For the 1980s Scottish footballer, see Ken Armstrong (footballer, born 1959).

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Ken Armstrong
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Armstrong in a Chelsea team photo, November 1947
Personal information
Full name Kenneth Armstrong
Date of birth (1924-06-03)3 June 1924
Place of birth Bradford, Yorkshire, England
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Place of death New Zealand
Position(s) Wing-half
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1946–1957 Chelsea 362 (25)
1957–1958 Eastern Union
1959–1964 North Shore United
1965–1966 Eastern Suburbs
1967–1970 North Shore United
1970–1971 Mount Wellington 1 (0)
International career
1955 England 1 (0)
1958–1962 New Zealand 9 (3)
Managerial career
Mount Wellington
1958–1964 New Zealand
1980 New Zealand
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Kenneth Armstrong (3 June 1924 – 13 June 1984) was an English association football player who represented both England and New Zealand at national level.

Club career

Born in Bradford, Armstrong served in the RAF during the Second World War. He was a versatile, tough-tackling and energetic midfielder who played mainly for Chelsea, joining the club from Bradford Rovers in 1946 for a fee of 100 guineas. Armstrong was a key member of Ted Drake's 1954–55 Championship-winning Chelsea side, making 39 appearances that season. He played in over 400 games (including a then-club record 362 league games) for the West London club and scored 30 goals.

After leaving Chelsea in 1957 Armstrong emigrated to Gisborne, New Zealand and continued to play football there for several local clubs, including Eastern Suburbs and North Shore United, and won four Chatham Cups. He then took over as manager at Mount Wellington, winning two league titles (in 1972 and 1974) and another Chatham Cup, in 1973. He played his last game in 1971, aged almost 47. Armstrong was later appointed chief coach of the national side.

International career

Armstrong was a member of England's 1954 World Cup squad[1] but did not travel to Switzerland, remaining in England as one of five players on reserve status.[2] He won a solitary England cap, against Scotland at Wembley in England's famous 7–2 win in the British Home Championship in April 1955.[3]

After emigrating to New Zealand in 1957, Armstrong played a significant part in developing football in his adopted country and played 13 times for the national side,[3] including nine A-internationals[4] in which he scored three goals.[5] In 1991 he was posthumously inducted into the New Zealand Soccer Media Association Hall of Fame.[6]

Management career

Armstrong managed National League side Mount Wellington, and was player manager of the New Zealand national soccer team from 1958 to 1964, taking charge of 32 games in that period, winning 11, losing 19 and drawing two.[7] In 1980 he took charge of the New Zealand women's national soccer team.[8]

Family

Armstrong's family is well represented in international football. Sons Ron and Brian also represented the All Whites, while Ron's daughter Bridgette Armstrong represented New Zealand at senior level and at the 2008 FIFA U-17 and FIFA U-20 Women's World Cups.[9]

Death

Armstrong died in 1984 and his ashes were scattered at Stamford Bridge.[10]

Honours

Player

Chelsea
1954–55
1955
North Shore United
1960, 1961, 1963
Eastern Suburbs
1965

Manager

Mount Wellington
1972, 1974
1973

References

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  8. ↑ Football Ferns Roll of Honour
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  10. ↑ Champions of a different era

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