Duncan Edwards has famously described the legend of Manchester United Sir Bobby Charlton as the only player who has ever made him feel “inferior” on the football field.
It is a stunning praise for someone who has undoubtedly been the world class – nominated for Ballon d’O or consistently during the 1960s – and will forever be among the greatest footballers ever produced by England.
Charlton was the winner of the World Cup, the winner of the European Cup and shared players with Pele, Bobby Moore, Alfred di Stefan, Eusebio and countless legends. Still, Edwards, who so cruelly denied the chance to ever reach his highlight, stood above all.
Edwards was tragically killed after an air disaster in Munich, who took the lives of eight Manchester United players, three staff and several journalists and crews in 1958.
He did not die immediately, but unfortunately he succumbed to his injuries and lost his fight at Munich Rechts Der Isar 15 days after the collision. He was only 21 at a time when his life was taken away.
Edwards lived in homes on Gorza Avenue in Stratford, not far from Old Trafford, at the time of his premature death, but was also engaged to Molly Leech’s girlfriend. His salary as a professional footballer was £ 15 a week, which could most earn the maximum salary rules.
It was the end of his bed when he passed away and continued to talk about him “great affection” until the rest of his life until 2004. The collection of letters and paintings that Edwards sent to his fiancé during their common time was auctioned at the auction.
Despite his years at the time of his death, Edwards has already played 177 times for United, with 18 caps for England.
Playing in a position for half a return, a midfielder of today’s terminology, was among the first of the famous generation Busby Babes to make a breakthrough at Old Trafford. After spotting him by a club at the age of 12, which played at the Schoolboy level in his hometown of Dudley in West Midlands, Edwards joined United as an amateur in June 1952. A few months before he was 16 years old.
Local Giants Wolves and Aston Villa wanted him, but he decided to move to Manchester, where United recently won the first league title in 41 years.
Just a few months later, and before he even signed a professional contract, Edwards was awarded to the first team on April 4, 1953 in the first team, when United faced Cardiff in a league match. At the age of 16 and 185 days, he was, at the time, the youngest player of an ever English top flight.
Although United lost 4-1 that day, Manchester Guardian He noticed Edwards’s “fine ability to pass and shoot.” Over time, his passage, cracking, solving, air skills and versatile double feet would define and characterize his world -class ability.
Edwards did not make another first -league performance of that season and had to wait until November 1953, until then he turned 17 for his next opportunity. The player replaced 33-year-old Veterans Henry Cockburn for a match against Arsenal at Old Trafford, lining with other emerging talents such as Roger Byrne, Bill Foulkes, Dennis Violles and Jackie Blanchflow’s club soon took English football.
Edwards kept on that shirt – jersey number six – the rest of the season, and Cockburn only played four games before Old Trafford left in late 1954 after a decade of service.
In the midst of a fierce competition in the talented United team at the time, Edwards lost its first-team place in the middle of the 1954/55 season, but was a constant fixing of the next campaign-you always at the age of 18-where the club won the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of The first headlines of the league back.
This brought with them entry into the European Cup, although initially against the will of the Football League in England, and by the spring of 1957, Edwards and United were to deal with the powerful Real Madrid in the semifinals of the competition. They reduced themselves because Real became crowned champions again and were denied only a dual double in a controversial final defeat of the FA Cup.
At the same time, Edwards named himself an international level. England called him in 1955 and debuted at the age of 18 and 153 days, the youngest post -war football player in the country until Michael Owen eventually knocked that record. Edwards never played on the World Cup, but it was expected that he would go to the 1958 tournament, which took place just a few months after his death, and was also intended for the future captain of England.
Almost 70 years after his life was interrupted, Edwards’s memory and heritage still lives. The Duncan Edwards Free Time Center in Dudley was named in his honor, while the street near where he was buried at the Dudley Cemetery to Duncan Edwards Close Duncan Edwards in 1993.
Perhaps the most famous is the stained glass shown by the player in the church of St. Francis in Dudley, his mentor and manager Matt Busby in 1961. His statue also stands at the Dudley City Center, discovered in 1999 and addressed again in a special ceremony in 2015.
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