Peter Dinsdale (19 October 1938 – 5 June 2004)
was a
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
player and coach. He played 239 times for
Huddersfield Town and was head coach of the
Canadian national soccer team for qualifying for the
1970 FIFA World Cup
The 1970 FIFA World Cup was the ninth edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international Association football, football championship for List of men's national association football teams, men's senior national teams. Held from 31 May t ...
.
Player
Born in
Bradford
Bradford is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Bradford district in West Yorkshire, England. The city is in the Pennines' eastern foothills on the banks of the Bradford Beck. Bradford had a population of 349,561 at the 2011 ...
, Dinsdale played for the Yorkshire Amateurs before turning professional with
Huddersfield Town in January 1956. He cracked the first team in 1959 upon finishing his National Service. A forward early in his career, he made a switch left
midfielder by 1962. He played with Town until 1966, making 219 league appearances for the side. Dinsdale was one of the first English players to play professionally in
North America
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, joining the
Vancouver Royals of the
United Soccer Association (USA) for their inaugural 1967 (summer) season. The USA merged with the
National Professional Soccer League (NPSL) to form the
North American Soccer League (NASL). Dinsdale played with the Royals during the 1968 NASL season. There he was subject to one of the earliest football loan transfers, playing on loan from Vancouver with
Bradford Park Avenue
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during the Canadian club's off-season. He made nine league appearances for the Bradford club.
Manager
After managing Canada between 1968 and 1970, Dinsdale returned to England to become assistant manager of
Brighton and Hove Albion from 1970 to 1972 under former Huddersfield teammate
Pat Saward
Patrick Saward (17 August 1928 – 20 September 2002) was a professional association football, footballer in the English Football League, English football League and for the Republic of Ireland national football team, Republic of Ireland. He d ...
. He later emigrated and settled in Vancouver, working as a real estate agent.
References
External links
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1938 births
2004 deaths
Men's association football midfielders
Bradford (Park Avenue) A.F.C. players
Canada men's national soccer team managers
Huddersfield Town A.F.C. players
English men's footballers
English expatriate men's footballers
English football managers
English emigrants to Canada
Expatriate soccer coaches in Canada
North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players
Soccer players from Vancouver
United Soccer Association players
Vancouver Royals players
Footballers from Bradford
English expatriate sportspeople in Canada
Expatriate men's soccer players in Canada