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Alan Ball Jr.

English footballer (1945–2007)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Alan James Ball was an English professional football player and manager. He won the 1966 World Cup with England and scored more than 180 league goals in a career spanning 22 years. After retiring as a player, he had a 15-year career as a manager which included spells in the top flight of English football with Portsmouth, Southampton and Manchester City. One of the best midfielders of his generation, he was inducted in the English Football Hall of Fame in 2003. He is also one of the few footballers with over 1,000 competitive appearances.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Alan Ball Jr.” as english footballer (1945–2007). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1966, 2003—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Alan, Ball and English can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as english footballer (1945–2007). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1966 and 2003.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alan Ball Jr.” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.