SOCCER PLAYER

Jackie Blanchflower

1933 - 1998

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John Blanchflower (7 March 1933 – 2 September 1998) was a footballer from Northern Ireland. He graduated from Manchester United's youth system and played for the club on 117 occasions, winning one league title, before his career was cut short due to injuries sustained in the Munich air disaster. He was also capped 12 times at senior level by Northern Ireland. He was the younger brother of Danny Blanchflower, the captain of the Tottenham Hotspur side that dominated English football in the early 1960s. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jackie Blanchflower is the 6,256th most popular soccer player (down from 4,083rd in 2019), the 5,696th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,396th in 2019) and the 362nd most popular British Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Jackie Blanchflower ranks 6,256 out of 21,273Before her are Denis Zakaria, Toshihiro Yamaguchi, José Serrizuela, Javier de Pedro, Aleksandr Uvarov, and Taye Taiwo. After her are Santiago Benítez, Hitoshi Nakata, Ladislav Vízek, Sam Hutchinson, Pedro Uralde, and Yugo Iiyama.

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Among people born in 1933, Jackie Blanchflower ranks 511Before her are Maurice Stokes, Glenn Corbett, Irwin M. Jacobs, Bill Hayden, David McCullough, and Donald Burgess. After her are Don Young, Ken Berry, Caroll Spinney, Hayes Alan Jenkins, Celina Jesionowska, and Sándor Sára. Among people deceased in 1998, Jackie Blanchflower ranks 311Before her are Hammond Innes, Gennady Yevryuzhikhin, Justin Fashanu, John Hunt, Baron Hunt, Josephine Hutchinson, and Lalita Pawar. After her are Ruth Clifford, Esther Rolle, Bill Reid, Binnie Barnes, Richard Denning, and Reidar Kvammen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jackie Blanchflower ranks 5,698 out of 8,785Before her are Danny Welbeck (1990), Peter Christopherson (1955), William Gott (1897), Roland Young (1887), A. H. Albut (null), and Hermione Gingold (1897). After her are Peter Westbury (1938), John Oxley (1785), Phyllida Lloyd (1957), Alan Hollinghurst (1954), William Empson (1906), and Sam Hutchinson (1989).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Jackie Blanchflower ranks 362Before her are Billy Liddell (1922), Nicky Butt (1975), Andy Auld (1900), Alex Scott (1984), Jimmy Murphy (1910), and Danny Welbeck (1990). After her are Sam Hutchinson (1989), Trevor Brooking (1948), Kieran Trippier (1990), Allenby Chilton (1918), Wes Brown (1979), and Walter Smith (1948).