Terry Hennessey
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| Terry Hennessey | ||
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| Personal information | ||
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| Full name | William Terrence Hennessey | |
| Date of birth | September 1, 1942 | |
| Place of birth |  Llay, Wales |
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| Playing position | Defender | |
| Youth clubs | ||
| 1958-1959 | Birmingham City | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1959-1965 1965-1970 1970-1973 1973 |
Birmingham City Nottingham Forest Derby County Tamworth |
178 (3) 159 (5) 63 (4) ? (?) |
| National team | ||
| 1962-1972 | Wales |
39 (?) |
| Teams managed | ||
| 1974-1978 1978 1878-1980 1980-1981 1981-1983 1983-1987 1987-1988 |
Tamworth Tulsa Roughnecks Shepshed Charterhouse Tulsa Roughnecks (Assistant Coach) Tulsa Roughnecks Vancouver Whitecaps Heidelberg |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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William Terrence Hennessey (born September 1, 1942 in Llay, Wales) was a Welsh international football player. He attained 39 caps for Wales and played his club football for Derby County. He also played for Birmingham City around 1960 as an attacking left half, then played with Nottingham Forest. He was an especially good distributor of the ball. He finished his playing days with non-league side Tamworth
[edit] History
After winning schoolboy honours, he joined ground-staff at Birmingham City. It was two months before he got a kick of a ball at St. Andrews, and then he didn't think he would make the grade. Terry did not click until he switched from inside forward to wing half, but then he quickly gained his first team place and, in 1962, his first full Welsh cap against the Republic of Ireland.
He won thirty-nine caps in all. This tall wing half dominated his area of the field, continually prodding his forwards into the attack with a series of perfect passes, that more than one critic has hailed Terry as a second Danny Blanchflower. Throughout 1963-1964 he fought like a lion in a struggling Birmingham team to help avoid relegation by a single point, forfeiting another Welsh cap to assist his club at a critical period during the season.
In November 1965 he was transferred to Nottingham Forest and became their captain. His role on the field varied, but he was always alive to the chance of creating goal scoring opportunities for others. A hard working and during his career accumulated a total of five hundred league appearances
He was forced to 'hang up his boots' at the end of the 1972 - 1973 campaign and initially went into coaching. Terry took a position as coach of the Tulsa Roughnecks in the early 1980s, when in 1983 they won the championship of the North American Soccer League (NASL).
[edit] External links
- Terry Hennessey career stats at Soccerbase
- National Football Teams
- Nigel's Webspace
- Rams Remembered....Terry Hennessey
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