Years Team Name Ray Bloomfield | Role Footballer | |
Date of birth (1944-10-15) 15 October 1944 (age 71) | ||
Raymond George "Ray" Bloomfield (born 15 October 1944 in Kensington, London) is an English former professional footballer who played in the Football League as a forward for Aston Villa, in the National Professional Soccer League for the Atlanta Chiefs, and in the North American Soccer League for Atlanta and the Dallas Tornado. He is the younger nephew of footballer Jimmy Bloomfield.
Career
As a young player he represented England at schoolboy level, where he played alongside David Pleat, Barry Fry and Ron Harris, and at youth level.
In the 1960s and early 1970s he was on the books of Arsenal, but never played a senior competitive match. In August 1964, Bloomfield signed with Aston Villa, where he played three league matches before his contract was cancelled by mutual consent 8 November 1966. In 1967, he moved to the United States to play for the Atlanta Chiefs, first in the National Professional Soccer League and then in the North American Soccer League. He won two NASL championships, in 1968 with Atlanta and in 1971 with the Dallas Tornado, where he ended his professional playing career.
He later became a players' agent.