The Eddie Lewis Story:
From Manchester to Soweto
by
Neilson Kaufman
Eddie Lewis: a lifetime devoted to soccer, 50 years of coaching on two continents... a journey from Manchester, England
to Soweto, South Africa.
This biography tells of the remarkable story of Eddie Lewis. As a young boy growing up in a small suburb of Manchester, he always had a dream of one day playing football for the great Manchester United. In November 1949, his dream came true when he joined the club and later become one of the original Busby Babes and a member of the team which won the first FA Youth Cup, three years later he scored on his Football League debut.
In subsequent years Eddie went onto play with many of the great United players like Bobby Charlton, Duncan Edwards, Roger Byrne and many others, a number of whom sadly lost their lives in the Munich air crash of February 1958, but are never to be forgotten. Later in his playing career he was part of two promotion campaigns to the First Division, what is today known as the Premier League with West Ham United and Leyton Orient.
In March 1970, he and his family moved to South Africa. There, Eddie coached many of the top teams including Wits in Johannesburg, the Soweto-based Kaizer Chiefs and Moroka Swallows-all to great success. Today, he is still considered as one of the great tacticians of the modern game.
In September 2007, he was honoured as one of just fifty recipients to receive an award for his excellent contribution to South African football from both the Confederation of African Football-CAF and the South African Football Association-SAFA, an award presented to him by the Premier of the Western Cape, Mr. Ebrahim Rasool.
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Paperback: 300 pages
ISBN-10: 1846670330
ISBN-13: 978-1846670336 |
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