Jimmy Osborne (singer)
James Osborne (died 23 December 2002) was an Australian soccer player who played as a left midfielder. Club career Osborne began playing with Plattsburg School. In 1929 Osborne joined Wallsend. After a season with Wallsend he transferred to Weston Workers Bears FC, Weston where he only spent a year before moving back to Wallsend. In 1934 he moved to Granville, staying two seasons before signing for Metters. Osborne played ten seasons for Metters, playing his last season in 1945. International career Osborne played seven times for Australia men's national soccer team, Australia, captaining the national team once in a friendly against India national football team, India in 1938. Death Osborne died on 23 December 2002. Before his death he was the oldest living former member of the national team. References

2002 deaths Australian men's soccer players Men's association football midfielders Australia men's international soccer players Year of birth missing Place of birth miss ...
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Soccer
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under t ...
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