Keith Spurgeon
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox football biography Keith Matthew Spurgeon (29 August 1932[1] – December 1984) was an English football player and manager.
Playing career
Spurgeon played for Tottenham Hotspur, Margate, Leytonstone, Folkestone Town, Herne Bay and Snowdown Colliery Welfare.[2] In October 1960 he was hired as a coach by Clapton, where he also had been used as a player to cover for injuries, on at least one occasion.[3]
Coaching career
Spurgeon was manager of Dutch clubs Ajax from 1961 to 1962,[4][5] Blauw-Wit Amsterdam between 1962 and 1963,[6] and again between 1964 and 1965.[7][8] He also managed Heracles Almelo from 1963[9] to 1964,[10] and AGOVV[11] and he later coached the Libyan national side,[12] the Dallas Tornado of the North American Soccer League,[13] Belgian side K.V. Mechelen[14] Swedish side AIK, Cypriot side APOEL, and Landskrona, also of Sweden.[15]
Personal life
Keith was born in Borehamwood, the son of Phyllis Edith Brighton and Albert Edward Spurgeon. He was married to Sylvia May Goldsmith.[1]
He died in Sweden in 1984,[16] from motor neurone disease.[2]
His son Template:Ill became a golfer.[17]
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