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Albert Campbell (footballer)

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Full name
  
Albert C. Campbell

Name
  
Albert Campbell

Years
  
Team

Role
  
Footballer


1954–1970
  
Crusaders

Height
  
1.83 m

1963–1964
  
Northern Ireland

Playing position
  
Defender

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Date of birth
  
(1938-01-04)4 January 1938

Place of birth
  
Belfast, Northern Ireland

Albert Campbell (born 4 January 1938 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a former footballer who played with Crusaders in the Irish League in the 1960s, and who won two full international caps for Northern Ireland (the first Crusaders player to be capped): against Wales in the 1963 Home Internationals and Switzerland in a World Cup match in 1964. He also won a 'B' international cap against France in 1959.

With Crusaders, he won the Ulster Cup and County Antrim Shield, and was part of the club's first Irish Cup-winning teams in 1967 and 1968. He was named the Ulster Footballer of the Year for the 1960/61 season.

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Albert Campbell (footballer) Wikipedia