Roger Hunt
Roger Hunt, MBE (20 July 1938 – 27 September 2021) was an English footballer. He played as a forward. He spent eleven years at Liverpool.
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Full name | Roger Hunt | |||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 20 July 1938 | |||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Glazebury, Lancashire,[1] England | |||||||||||||||
Date of death | 27 September 2021 83) | (aged|||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Striker | |||||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||
1958–1969 | Liverpool | 404 | (245) | |||||||||||||
1969–1972 | Bolton Wanderers | 76 | (24) | |||||||||||||
1971 | → Hellenic (loan) | 6 | (4) | |||||||||||||
Total | 486 | (273) | ||||||||||||||
National team | ||||||||||||||||
1962–1969 | England | 34 | (18) | |||||||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Hunt was a member of the England team that won the 1966 World Cup. He played in all six England games in the tournament, scoring three times. Hunt was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2006.
Hunt died on 27 September 2021 at the age of 83.[2]
References
- Being north of the River Mersey, Glazebury (and Culcheth) was in Lancashire before 1 April 1974. Please do not change
- "Liverpool FC mourns passing of Roger Hunt". liverpoolfc.com. Liverpool FC. 28 September 2021. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
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