SOCCER PLAYER

Howard Kendall

1946 - 2015

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Howard Kendall (22 May 1946 – 17 October 2015) was an English footballer and manager. Kendall joined Preston North End as an apprentice and stayed with the club when he turned professional. He was a runner-up in the 1964 FA Cup with Preston, and at 17 years 345 days old was the youngest player to play in a Wembley final. In 1967, he joined Everton, where he played as a midfielder with Alan Ball and Colin Harvey, the trio gaining the nickname "The Holy Trinity". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2024). Howard Kendall is the 5,276th most popular soccer player (down from 4,466th in 2024), the 5,166th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,626th in 2019) and the 298th most popular British Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Howard Kendall ranks 5,278 out of 21,273. Before him are Shigetatsu Matsunaga, Merih Demiral, Iván Hurtado, Federico Bernardeschi, Steve Cherundolo, Kevin Strootman, Marco Ballotta, and Hao Haidong. After him are Miroslav Stoch, Hans Mild, Harumi Kori, and Quiterio Olmedo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Howard Kendall ranks 698. Before him are Dave Mason, Josef Horešovský, Faiza Al-Kharafi, Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford, Terry Branstad, and Sonny Perdue. After him are Justin Hayward, Valery Muratov, Naomi Judd, Julia Annas, Uroš Marović, and John M. Lounge. Among people deceased in 2015, Howard Kendall ranks 439. Before him are Léon Mébiame, Andrew Lesnie, Andriy Kuzmenko, Kurt Oppelt, René Vautier, Joan Leslie, and Allen Toussaint. After him are Robert Craft, Anne-Marie Lizin, Anatoly Logunov, Chris Burden, and Abu Anas al-Libi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Howard Kendall ranks 5,168 out of 8,785. Before him are Izaak Walton (1593), Pauline Baynes (1922), John Betjeman (1906), Dorothy E. Smith (1926), Raymond Briggs (1934), and John Garstang (1876). After him are Justin Hayward (1946), Peter Cook (1936), Bryan Forbes (1926), William Bell Scott (1811), Mike Hodges (1932), and Dan Crenshaw (1984).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Howard Kendall ranks 298. Before him are Bob Crompton (1879), Steve Archibald (1956), Martin Taylor (1979), Ron Greenwood (1921), David Pegg (1935), and Emile Heskey (1978). After him are Gary McAllister (1964), Alex Miller (1949), Alex Stepney (1942), Steve Bruce (1960), Pat Rice (1949), and Jesse Lingard (1992).

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