Percy Lynsdale

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Percy Lynsdale
Personal information
Full name Percy Cyril Lynsdale
Date of birth (1928-07-01) 1 July 1928 (age 93)
Place of birth Baghdad, Iraq
Position(s) Forward
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
0000–1948 Baghdad College
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1948–1950 Sharikat Naft Al-Basra
1950–1951 Al-Mina'a
National team
1951 Iraq 3 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Percy Cyril Lynsdale (Arabic: بيرسي لينزديل; born 1 July 1928) is an Iraqi former footballer who played as a forward.

Born in Iraq to an Iraqi mother and a British father, Lynsdale was one of the first players to play for the Iraq national team. He played for Sharikat Naft Al-Basra and Al-Minaa at club level, before moving to England in 1951.

Early life[]

Lynsdale's roots lie in South London, then Surrey; one of his ancestors settled in India after joining the British Army in 1797.[1] One hundred years later, Lynsdale's father Cyril was born; he moved to Baghdad, Iraq shortly after World War I, and married an Iraqi woman, gaining Iraqi citizenship.[1]

Born in Baghdad, Lynsdale lived for a period in Mosul due to his father's job in the Iraqi Railway company.[1] In the early 1940s, Lynsdale studied at the Jesuit Baghdad College, and played football in the schoolyard.[1] He eventually became part of the college's first football team, captaining them in his first senior year.[1]

After graduating in 1948, Lynsdale and his family moved to the British community of Maqil, near Basra. Lynsdale found work as a clerk for the Basra Petroleum Company (B.P.C.).[2]

Career[]

While working for the B.P.C., Lynsdale played for their football team in the Basra League as an inside left.[1] He joined Al-Mina'a in 1950.[3]

In April 1951, Lynsdale played for the first Iraq national football team.[4][5] He was called by coach Dhia Habib to play in the team's international friendly,[4] against Turkey B in Turkey on 6 May 1951, which ended 7–0 for Turkey B.[4][5]

After the national team returned to Baghdad in 1951, Lynsdale and his international teammate Saeed Easho left to study abroad, and never returned to Iraq.[2] Lynsdale studied in Norwich, England, becoming a self-employed trader.[1] He played Sunday league football in Manchester.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Mubarak, Hassanin (18 November 2020). "Percy Lynsdale: The British and football in Iraq". hassaninmubarak.substack.com. Retrieved 14 May 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ a b Mubarak, Hassanin (3 September 2013). "THREE LIONS: THE BIRTH OF ASOOD AL-RAFIDAIN". iraqsport.wordpress.com.
  3. ^ Mubarak, Hassanin. "Three Lions: The birth of the Lions of Mesopotamia". Ahdaaf.me. Archived from the original on 17 August 2019. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  4. ^ a b c Mubarak, Hassanin. "International Results 1951-1959". Iraqsport.com. Archived from the original on 16 June 2006.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  5. ^ a b Mahmoud, Shokri (3 June 2009). "The first match for Iraq national team in 1951". kooora.com (in Arabic).
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