Brian Joy
 Brian Joy (centre) with Pelé and Eusébio | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Brian William Joy | ||
| Date of birth | 26 February 1951 | ||
| Place of birth | Salford, Lancashire, England | ||
| Playing position | Right Back | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1968–1969 | Blackburn Rovers | 0 | (0) |
| 1969–1970 | Torquay United | 27 | (0) |
| 1970–1972 | Tranmere Rovers | 21 | (1) |
| 1972–1973 | Doncaster Rovers | 34 | (1) |
| 1973–1976 | Exeter City | 90 | (2) |
| 1976 | San Diego Jaws | 24 | (3) |
| 1976–1977 | York City | 18 | (0) |
| 1977 | Las Vegas Quicksilvers | 30 | (2) |
| 1977–1978 | Macclesfield Town | 6 | (0) |
| 1978 | San Diego Sockers | 5 | (0) |
| 1980 | Cleveland Cobras | 16 | |
| 1980–1981 | San Francisco Fog | 32 | (11) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). | |||
Brian William Joy (born 26 February 1951 in Salford, Lancashire) is an English former professional football right-back.
Playing career
Joy began his career as an apprentice with Coventry City playing in the 1967–68 FA Youth Cup Final against Burnley, losing 3–2 on aggregate in the 2 home and away ties, but turned professional on joining Blackburn Rovers in August 1968. He failed to break into the first team at Ewood Park and left to join Torquay United in August 1969, making his league debut early the following season in a 5:1 win against Tranmere Rovers. He played 26 times for Allan Brown's side before moving to Tranmere Rovers in June 1970. He played the first 21 games of the following season, but then suffered a bad leg injury in a car accident losing part of his right knee cap, this injury kept him out of football for 18 months before Maurice Setters an old friend from his Coventry days, the then manager of Doncaster gave him the chance to join Doncaster Rovers in July 1972. He joined Rovers as a right-back, but in his one season with them played in eight different positions, playing 34 games before joining Exeter City in July 1973.
After 90 games for the Grecians, scoring twice, he moved to the NASL to spend the 1976 season with the San Diego Jaws. In September 1976 he returned to the UK, joining York City, playing 18 times before spending the 1977 NASL season with Las Vegas Quicksilvers. On his return to the UK he joined Macclesfield Town, spending one final season in the NASL with the renamed San Diego Sockers in 1978.
He then suffured another injury setback after 5 games of the 1978 season with San Diego Sockers hurting his right knee again, that resulted in the remaining part of the right knee cap being removed by top San Diego surgeon Ed Kruesser.
He then returned to playing in 1980 captaining the Cleveland Cobras of the American Soccer League (ASL) and then joined the San Francisco Fog of the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) for the 1980–81 indoor season. He scored 9 goals and added 15 assists, before retiring from professional football at the end of that season.
He now lives between homes in Bo'ness Edinburgh in Scotland UK and Carvoeiro Portugal and is a retired businessman.
Brian Joy is the Father of former Professional footballer Ian Joy who is now a Football analyst for USA based beIN Sport.
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