Alex Hastings
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox football biography Alexander Cockburn Hastings BEM (17 March 1912 – 26 December 1988)[1] was a Scottish footballer who played for Sunderland and the Scotland national football team, primarily as a left half.[2]
Club career
Born in Falkirk, Hastings played for local club Stenhousemuir[3][4] before moving to Sunderland in 1930.[5] Hastings made his debut for Sunderland in a 1–1 tie against Portsmouth at Fratton Park.[6] He served as a captain throughout much of the 1930s, and led Sunderland to a 1936 League Championship.[2] Hastings made 304 appearances and scored eight goals,[6] becoming known as one of Sunderland's "great names."[7]
After retiring as a player, Hastings managed Kilmarnock and scouted for Stoke City.[5] He later emigrated to Australia, where he became president of the South Australian Soccer Federation and was awarded the British Empire Medal for services to association football in the 1981 Birthday Honours.[4][8]
International career
He won his first international cap for Scotland on 13 November 1935 against Northern Ireland in a 2–1 at Tynecastle Stadium.[9] He won one further cap, in total winning just two caps over 1935 to 1937.[10]
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- 1912 births
- 1988 deaths
- Scottish men's footballers
- Scotland men's international footballers
- Sunderland A.F.C. players
- Men's association football wing halves
- Footballers from Falkirk
- English Football League players
- Scottish Football League players
- Stenhousemuir F.C. players
- Hartlepool United F.C. wartime guest players
- Scottish football managers
- Kilmarnock F.C. managers
- Stoke City F.C. non-playing staff
- Scottish emigrants to Australia
- Recipients of the British Empire Medal
- Scottish football scouts
- Scottish Football League managers
- 20th-century Scottish sportsmen