Andy Henderson, Sr was an Australian

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 ...

player and coach who played as a

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. Born in Scotland, he came to Australia at 23 where he said he learnt his soccer. Henderson played two matches for the

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in 1924. Henderson was the father of national team player Bill Henderson. They became the first father–son combination for Australia.

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