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Peter McParland was 1 of nan all-time greats of Northern Ireland football, who besides made his people successful English League shot pinch Aston Villa.
The County Down native, who died connected Sunday aged 91, is his country's grounds goalscorer astatine World Cup finals, having scored 5 successful Sweden successful 1958.
He was nan past surviving personnel of that Northern Ireland 1958 World Cup squad, which reached nan quarter-final stage.
McParland won some FA Cup and League Cup winners' medals pinch Villa.
He holds a unsocial spot successful English shot history arsenic nan first subordinate successful nan crippled to people successful and triumph some English awesome home knockout finals.
Born successful Newry, McParland was spotted playing for Dundalk successful nan League of Ireland by Aston Villa head George Martin, who signed him for a interest successful nan region of £3,500.
The extracurricular near spent nan mostly of his profession astatine nan Midlands club, while his world profession spanned 9 years from 1954-62.
A good header and striker of nan ball, he is regarded arsenic 1 of nan top players to correspond some Aston Villa and Northern Ireland.
He played 340 games successful full for Villa, scoring 120 goals.
He scored doubly successful nan FA Cup last against Manchester United successful 1957 but besides became progressive successful a arguable incident successful which he shoulder-charged (at nan clip a morganatic shape of challenge) nan United keeper Ray Wood aft only six minutes, leaving him unconscious pinch a surgery cheekbone.
McParland's goals were remembered arsenic examples of his all-round abilities arsenic a player, showcasing his diving header and volleying techniques.
He scored 22 convention goals to thief Villa triumph nan Second Division title successful 1960 and past won a League Cup winners' badge successful 1961.
The Northern Irishman was connected nan scoresheet for nan 2nd limb of nan 1961 League Cup final, erstwhile Villa overturned a 2-0 shortage against Rotherham United to triumph nan 2nd brushwood betwixt nan sides 3-0 astatine Villa Park and go nan winners of nan first Football League Cup, McParland's extra-time victor proving decisive.
He subsequently joined Wolverhampton Wanderers for £35,000 successful January 1962, scoring 10 goals successful 21 games during his 1 play pinch nan club.
His last English League nine was Plymouth Argyle, followed by a spell pinch non-league Worcester City, but successful 1965 he was recruited to play for Inter-Roma FC of nan Eastern Canadian Professional Soccer League and past turned retired for Atlanta Chiefs of nan North American Soccer League successful 1967 and 1968.
McParland won nan NPSL Championship pinch nan Chiefs successful 1967.
He ended his profession arsenic player-manager of Irish League nine Glentoran, wherever he spent 3 seasons, including a convention title occurrence successful 1970.
On nan world stage, McParland scored 10 goals successful 34 appearances, including those 5 goals astatine Sweden '58 to thief propel his squad into nan quarter-finals, wherever a squad by past decimated by injuries mislaid 4-0 to France.
His awesome haul astatine nan finals included 1 extremity successful a 3-1 triumph complete Argentina, 2 successful a 2-2 tie pinch West Germany and different mates successful a 2-1 occurrence against Czechoslovakia.
His Northern Ireland profession had begun successful style arsenic nan past 19-year-old bagged a double connected his debut successful a World Cup qualifying triumph complete Wales successful Wrexham successful nan 1953-54 season.
Following Billy Bingham's decease successful 2022, he became nan past surviving personnel of nan Northern Ireland squad from that memorable 1958 campaign.
McParland was nan youngest personnel of head Peter Doherty's squad, which besides included nan likes of erstwhile Manchester United goalkeeper Harry Gregg, midfielders Danny Blanchflower and Bertie Peacock and forwards Jimmy McIlroy and Derek Dougan.
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