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William John Charles (27 December 1931 – 21 February 2004) was a Welsh footballer who played as a
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or as a
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. Best known for his first stint at Leeds United and Juventus, he was rated by many as the greatest all-round footballer ever to come from Britain. Charles began his career at Leeds United, having moved there in 1949 from his hometown club, Swansea Town. He was equally adept as a defender or a forward, due to his strength, pace, technique, vision, ability in the air and eye for goal. After returning from his National Service in 1952, Charles began to be used more often as a forward, and he was the
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's top scorer in 1954. The following year, he was named club captain; in his first season as captain, he led the club to second place and promotion. Charles ended the 1956–57 season as the First Division's top scorer and an eighth-place finish for Leeds. In the summer of 1957, Charles joined Juventus, where he partnered
Giampiero Boniperti Giampiero Boniperti (; 4 July 1928 – 18 June 2021) was an Italian footballer who played his entire 15-season career at Juventus between 1946 and 1961, winning five Serie A titles and two Coppa Italia titles. He also played for the Italy nati ...
and
Omar Sívori Enrique Omar Sívori (, ; 2 October 1935 – 17 February 2005) was an Italian-Argentine football player and manager who played as a forward. At club level, he is known for his successful time with Italian side Juventus during the late 1950s and ...
, with the trio becoming known as ''The Holy Trident''. In his five seasons with the club, he won the ''
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'' three times and the Coppa Italia twice; he was also the ''
capocannoniere The ''Capocannoniere'' award (; literally "head gunner"), known as Paolo Rossi AwardRoma. Charles moved back to his native country to play for
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, and ended his career in non-league football in player-manager roles at
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and Merthyr Tydfil. He was never cautioned nor
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during his entire career, owing to his philosophy of never kicking nor intentionally hurting opposing players. This led to the nickname he acquired while playing for Juventus, ''Il Gigante Buono'' (The Gentle Giant). In 1998, he was included in the
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, and in 2002, he was one of the inaugural inductees to the
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. He represented the Welsh national team over fifteen years, from 1950 to 1965. Alongside his brother,
Mel Charles Melvyn Charles (14 May 1935 – 24 September 2016) was a Welsh international footballer. Charles played as both a centre-half and centre-forward, with his preferred position being at right-half. After a short stint on the Leeds United ground ...
, he was a member of the Welsh squad at the
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. At the tournament, he scored in a 1–1 draw with Hungary, but he got injured in a play-off match against the same opposition. Ruled out of the quarter-final against Brazil, Wales lost the match 1–0, with Pelé scoring the winner. Wales manager Jimmy Murphy opined that had Charles been fit, Wales might have won the match. For its 50th anniversary in 2004, UEFA asked each of its then 52 member associations to nominate one player as the single most outstanding player of the period 1954–2003, and Charles was chosen as the Golden Player of Wales by its national association in November 2003.


Early career

Charles was born in the
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district of Swansea during late 1931. Charles would play football as a child, with younger brother
Mel Charles Melvyn Charles (14 May 1935 – 24 September 2016) was a Welsh international footballer. Charles played as both a centre-half and centre-forward, with his preferred position being at right-half. After a short stint on the Leeds United ground ...
who also went on to become a professional, later playing alongside each other for the Welsh national team. While still at school, Charles joined the boys section of the local team Swansea Town, who later became
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. When he left school at age 14 he was taken onto the groundstaff at Vetch Field, yet because of his young age Third Division Swansea never gave him a first-team call up. His only senior appearances came for the reserve side in the
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.


Club career


Leeds United

While playing for Gendros, a local youth club, he was scouted by Leeds United and given a trial in September 1948. At his trial he impressed and duly signed for them at the age of 17, relocating to Yorkshire. Then manager of Leeds United, Major Buckley, selected Charles in a variety of positions including right-back, centre-half and left-half for Leeds Reserves. Charles made his first team debut as a centre back for Leeds in a friendly versus
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club Queen of the South on 19 April 1949. Charles was tasked with marking the incumbent Scotland centre forward
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, who ten days previously at Wembley, had run the England defence ragged as the Scots won 3–1. The score at Elland Road was 0–0. After the game, Houliston said 17-year-old Charles was "the best centre half I've ever played against". Charles made his league debut against Blackburn Rovers also in April 1949, playing at centre-half. From 1950 until 1952, Charles was away on National Service with the 12th Royal Lancers at Carlisle. The army allowed him to turn out for Leeds, but also saw to it that he played for them, and in 1952, Charles skippered his side to the Army Cup. It was during this period that he had operations to repair cartilages in both knees. After his return to the Leeds side in November 1951, Charles played at centre-forward and centre half. This prompted a debate as to where Charles should play in the team, but he remained at centre-half until the 1952–53 season. In October 1952, he was switched to centre forward and immediately started to score, with 11 goals in 6 games. In 1955, he was appointed club captain and during the 1955–56 season, Leeds won promotion to the First Division. Charles was in sparkling form, scoring 29 goals in 42 appearances. In the following season, Charles scored a new club top flight record tally of 38 goals in 40 league appearances as Leeds secured an 8th-place finish in the first division, before finally moving away from the club. His influence on Leeds' success during his final season was so strong, reporters nicknamed the club "John Charles United". In total, he scored 150 league goals in eight years for Leeds, including a club record 42 goals in 39 appearances during the 1953–54 season. He remains the second highest all time goal scorer for Leeds after
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.


Juventus

In August 1957, he joined the Italian club Juventus for a then British record £65,000 transfer fee, almost doubling the previous record. The transfer was notable as Charles became one of the first British professional players to be signed for an overseas team after
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led the way moving from Fulham to Real Madrid in 1948. His debut came on 8 September 1957 against
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. Goals from
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and
Omar Sívori Enrique Omar Sívori (, ; 2 October 1935 – 17 February 2005) was an Italian-Argentine football player and manager who played as a forward. At club level, he is known for his successful time with Italian side Juventus during the late 1950s and ...
had made the score 2–2, when up popped Charles to score the winner. The following week, he scored the only goal in the victory over
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, and he then hit the decisive strike in a 3–2 victory over Genoa. He had been the match-winner in his first three games. In his first season in Italy, Charles was Serie A's top scorer with 28 goals, and was voted player of the season as Juventus won the ''
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''. He played in Turin for five years, scoring 108 goals in 155 matches, winning the ''scudetto'' ( Italian league championship) three times, and the Coppa Italia twice. He placed third in the
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in
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, the highest position for a Welsh footballer. His prolific partnership with Sívori and Boniperti in Juventus's front-line earned the trio the nicknames ''The Holy Trident'' and ''The Magical Trio''; Charles was also dubbed ''Il Gigante Buono'' (The Gentle Giant) during his five seasons with the club, due to his size and fair play. The respect Charles earned from Juventus fans was shown when, on the occasion of the club's centenary in 1997, they voted him the club's best-ever foreign player.


Return to Leeds United

Following his time at Juventus, Don Revie paid a club record £53,000 to secure the return of Charles to Yorkshire. As a result of the excitement this created, Leeds United raised admission prices for the start of the 1962–63 season. Charles second spell at Elland Road was less successful. After five years in Italy, he found it difficult to adjust to life and football back in Britain.


Roma

After 11 games and three goals – a shadow of his former strike rate – Charles was sold for £70,000 to Roma. Initially, the move was a success and Charles scored within fifteen minutes of his first game for Roma, in a match against Bologna. The early promise was never fulfilled, however, and Charles was on the move again a year later.


Later career

He left to join
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where he stayed until 1966, which marked the end of his league career. He later became manager of
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, Merthyr Tydfil and the
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youth team, and technical director of the Canadian team Hamilton Steelers, who he became coach of midway through the 1987 season.


International career

Charles first played for the Wales national team shortly after his 18th birthday. He played for Wales at the
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in Sweden – the first time the nation qualified for the competition. It was also the only time all four of the
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qualified for the same World Cup, though only Wales and Northern Ireland made it past the group stage. Wales remained undefeated in the group stage, battling to draws with Hungary (thanks to a Charles goal), Mexico, and eventual runners-up Sweden. As Hungary also recorded three points, a play-off match ensued, and Wales came from behind at the Råsunda Stadium to advance with a 2–1 win; however, Charles was injured in the match and missed out on the rest of the tournament. The Welsh were eventually knocked out by Brazil in the quarter-finals thanks to a goal by Pelé in the 66th minute: the Brazilians went on to win the competition. Wales manager Jimmy Murphy said that "with John Charles in the side we might have won". In total for Wales, Charles made 38 appearances and scored 15 goals. Charles played for the Great Britain team against Ireland in 1955.


Player profile


Style of play

Regarded as one of the greatest British footballers of all-time, Charles was a versatile footballer who was capable of playing both as a
centre-forward Forwards (also known as attackers) are outfield positions in an association football team who play the furthest up the pitch and are therefore most responsible for scoring goals as well as assisting them. As with any attacking player, the role ...
and as a
centre-back In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield position whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scoring. Centre-backs are usually positioned in pairs, with one full-back on either s ...
. As a striker, he was renowned for being a prolific goalscorer, as he was capable of scoring with either foot, courtesy of his powerful and accurate shot; due to his height, physique, and strength, as well as his heading power and accuracy, he also excelled in the air, which made him an aerial goal threat. Despite his size, he was also a fast player, with good technical skills and passing ability, which allowed him both to score and create goals. In addition to his ability, he was also known for his correct behaviour on the pitch, which along with his stature, earned him the nickname ''Il Gigante Buono'' (The Gentle Giant).


Legacy

In the foreword for Charles' autobiography,
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described him as "incomparable" and classed him among the all-time footballing greats such as Pelé,
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and
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, saying "Incomparable. John wasn't only one of the greatest footballers who ever lived. He was one of the greatest men ever to play the game." He also noted that Charles is the only footballing great to be world class in two very different positions.
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, the captain of Juventus when Charles had joined the ''Bianconeri'', spoke of the Welshman's nature as a person: "I would say he was from another world because of his human qualities. John was one of the most loyal and honest people I have ever met, a very special person. He managed to keep the whole team united, and any quarrels or arguments quietened down as soon as he appeared on the pitch or in the dressing room." Jack Charlton said of his former teammate, "John Charles was a team unto himself. People often say to me, 'Who was the best player you ever saw?', and I answer that it was probably
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, Di Stéfano, Cruyff, Pelé or our Bob. But the most effective player I ever saw, the one that made the most difference to the performance of the whole team, was without question John Charles." Charles' sporting behaviour led international referee Clive Thomas to say "If you had 22 players of John's calibre, there would be no need for referees – only time-keepers." In 1998, the
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, as part of its centenary season celebrations, included Charles on its list of 100 League Legends. In 2002, Charles became an inaugural inductee to the English Football Hall of Fame. On 29 November 2003, to celebrate UEFA's Jubilee, he was selected as the Golden Player of Wales by the
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as their most outstanding player of the past 50 years. In 2004, Charles was voted at number 19 in the ''
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'' poll. On 7 March 2018, Charles had one of Great Western Railway's Intercity Express Trains named after him. In August 2019, a social housing complex named "Clos John Charles" was opened on the site of a former primary school in
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, Swansea. The John Charles Lounge in Aberystwyth Town's ground is named after Charles. The
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in Leeds is named after Charles. The West stand at Elland Road is named "The John Charles Stand" and the entrance lobby to the Banqueting Suite attached to the back of the stand contains a bust of Charles, in memory of all he did for the club. A street near Elland Road in the Lower Wortley area of Leeds is named John Charles Way.


Personal life and death

Charles was married twice during his life. In 1953, he married Margaret "Peggy" White; the couple had four sons together. They divorced in 1982. In 1988, Charles married Glenda Vero, who he remained married to until his death in 2004. The Charles name continued in football through nephew
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, who also represented Wales, and grandson
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, who has represented Wales at youth level. Following his retirement from football, Charles became the landlord of the New Inn public house on Elland Road,
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, Leeds which later was also managed by another Leeds United player and Wales international,
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. On 16 June 2001, as part of that year's
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, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire "for services to Association Football". Until shortly before his death he continued to attend every Leeds United home game. In 2002, he was made a vice-president of the
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, and in 2003, he was granted the freedom of the city of Swansea. There was a campaign to knight Charles, but it never came to fruition. In January 2004, he suffered a heart attack shortly before an interview for Italian television, and required the partial amputation of one foot for circulation reasons before he was returned to Britain. He died in Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, early on 21 February 2004. His widow, Glenda, bequeathed his ashes to the city of Swansea.


Career statistics

::a. Includes FA Cup and Coppa Italia


Honours

Leeds United *
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runners-up: 1955–56 Juventus * Serie A: 1957–58, 1959–60, 1960–61 * Coppa Italia: 1958–59, 1959–60 Cardiff City * Welsh Cup: 1963–64, 1964–65 Wales *
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: 1959–60; runners-up: 1960–61, 1961–62 * FIFA World Cup quarter-finalist:
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Individual * English First Division Top Scorer: 1956–57 * Serie A Top Goal-scorer: 1957–58 *
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– Third place:
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* UEFA Golden Player: Wales


References


Further reading

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External links


English Football Hall of Fame ProfileJohn Charles – A True Leeds United Legend
– LeedsUnited.com
John Charles at the Wales Video GalleryTribute at Gomersal Park Hotel
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