Personal information | |||
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Full name | Gordon Harris[1] | ||
Date of birth | 2 June 1940 | ||
Place of birth | Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England | ||
Date of death | 10 February 2014 | (aged 73)||
Place of death | Langold, Nottinghamshire, England | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Firbeck Colliery | |||
1958–1967 | Burnley | 258 | (69) |
1967–1971 | Sunderland | 126 | (16) |
1971–1975 | South Shields | ||
International career | |||
1961–1963 | England U23 | 2 | (1) |
1966 | England | 1 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Gordon Harris (2 June 1940 – 10 February 2014) was a professional footballer who played as a midfielder in the Football League for Burnley and Sunderland.[2] He was capped twice for England under-23 team while a Burnley player,[3] and once for the full national team, on 5 January 1966 in a 1–1 draw with Poland, as a late replacement for the injured Bobby Charlton.[4]
Harris died of cancer on 10 February 2014.[5]
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