Austin Hayes
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Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox football biography Austin William Patrick Hayes (15 July 1958 – 3 December 1986) was an English-born professional footballer of Irish descent who played as a left winger. He was a member of the Southampton team that were runners-up in the 1979 League Cup final.
Hayes played once as a full international for the Republic of Ireland national team in 1979.
Early life
Hayes was born in Hammersmith, London, to Irish parents in 1958 and was raised in Chiswick.[1]
Club career
Hayes began his professional career as a left winger at Southampton in 1976. He scored twice on his debut in a European Cup Winners' Cup tie at home to Carrick Rangers on 3 November 1976.[1] Shortly after turning 19-years-old, he was sent on loan to American club Los Angeles Aztecs.[1]
He played in the 1979 League Cup final but Southampton lost to Nottingham Forest.[1] Hayes was never able to cement a regular first-team place, with players of the calibre of Kevin Keegan, Charlie George and Phil Boyer also in the Saints squad.[2] His last appearance for Southampton came on 3 May 1980 against Middlesbrough and he was transferred to Millwall for £50,000 in February 1981, later turning out for Northampton Town and then for Barnet in the Gola League.[3][1] His last club was Swedish side Friska Viljor.[4]
International career
He made his solitary appearance for Republic of Ireland in a 2–0 victory over Denmark at Lansdowne Road on 2 May 1979.[5]
Death
In December 1986, Austin Hayes died at the age of 28 from lung cancer after contracting pneumonia, just three weeks after the illness was diagnosed.[6] Earlier that year he had spent a short time playing in Sweden and had recently returned to England when he became ill.[3]
Honours
Southampton
- League Cup runners-up: 1978–79
References
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- 1958 births
- 1986 deaths
- Men's association football wingers
- Republic of Ireland men's association footballers
- Southampton F.C. players
- Millwall F.C. players
- Footballers from the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
- People from Hammersmith
- Deaths from lung cancer in England
- Republic of Ireland men's international footballers
- Republic of Ireland men's under-21 international footballers
- Northampton Town F.C. players
- Barnet F.C. players
- Los Angeles Aztecs players
- English Football League players
- North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players
- 20th-century Irish sportsmen