Joe Haverty

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File:Eire 1960.jpg
The Republic of Ireland national football team before their away match against Sweden in May 1960. Players (L–R), standing: Seamus Dunne, Noel Dwyer, Charlie Hurley. Michael McGrath, Pat Saward; crouched: Joe Haverty, George Cummins, Dermot Curtis, Ronnie Nolan, Ambrose "Amby" Fogarty and Fionan "Paddy" Fagan.

Joseph Haverty (17 February 1936 – 7 February 2009) was an Irish footballer who played as a winger. He was capped 32 times for the Republic of Ireland.

Career

Haverty played for Home Farm and St Patrick's Athletic before signing for Arsenal in July 1954.[1] He almost immediately made his debut, while still only 18, against Everton on 25 August 1954, though he only managed another six matches that season, and eight the one after that.[2]

His breakthrough in the Arsenal side came in 1956–57, as he became the Gunners' first choice left-winger, playing 32 times and scoring 9 goals. By now he had also made his debut for the Republic of Ireland, against the Netherlands on 10 May 1955.[2][3]

Haverty also played in the London XI that contested the inaugural edition of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. He played against Lausanne Sports in the semi-finals (and scored a goal in the 3–2 aggregate win), he did not make the cut for the final against Barcelona, which London lost 6–1 on aggregate.[3]

Back trouble meant he missed some of Arsenal's matches during this time,[4] but put in 37 appearances and 8 goals in 1959–60,[2] his best season for the club.[3] However, the next season he was made to share the left wing position with Alan Skirton. Haverty was unhappy with the lack of a regular first-team place, and put in a transfer request; he was sold to Blackburn Rovers in August 1961 for £25,000. In all, he played 122 matches for Arsenal, scoring 26 goals.[1]

Haverty spent a single season with Blackburn, before having spells in the lower divisions with Millwall and Bristol Rovers, with a brief spell at Celtic in between.[5][3] He moved back to his native Ireland to play for Shelbourne, with whom he won the last of his 32 full international caps.[3][2] In 1967 he went to the United States to play for Chicago Spurs (later Kansas City Spurs) in the NASL,[6] and then returned to sign for Shamrock Rovers in 1969,[3] for whom he made two appearances in the European Cup Winners' Cup.[7] In August 1971 he signed for Drogheda.[8]

He went on to scout for Arsenal in Ireland.[3] In 2000, he was inaugurated into the Football Association of Ireland's Hall of Fame.[4] He died on 7 February 2009, in Dublin, aged 72.[5]

Honours

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