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Albert Campbell (footballer)

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Albert Campbell
Personal information
Date of birth (1938-01-04)4 January 1938
Place of birth Belfast, Northern Ireland
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Position(s) Centre-half
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1954–1970 Crusaders 529 (26)
International career
1963–1964 Northern Ireland 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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]

References

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