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Alan James Ball MBE (12 May 1945 – 25 April 2007) was an English professional football player and manager. He was the youngest member of England's 1966 World Cup winning team and played as a midfielder for various clubs, scoring more than 180 league goals in a career spanning 22 years.
Alan Erwin Ball (born May 13, 1957) is an American writer and director for film and television. Ball wrote the screenplay for American Beauty, for which he earned an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Apr 26, 2007 · World Cup winner Alan Ball has died of a heart attack at the age of 61. Ball was the youngest member of the England side that won the World Cup in 1966 and went on to win 72 caps. The...
Alan Ball is an American writer, director, and producer who is known for writing the acclaimed film American Beauty and creating the HBO series True Blood starring Anna Paquin. He also wrote the films Towelhead and Uncle Frank.
Apr 26, 2007 · Alan Ball, a crafty 5-foot-6 soccer midfielder who at 21 was the youngest member of the team that won England its only World Cup, in 1966, died yesterday in Warsash, Hampshire. He was...
Apr 25, 2007 · LONDON — Alan Ball, the youngest and smallest player of England's 1966 World Cup winning side, was found dead in the early hours of Wednesday. He was 61. Police called to his home in Hampshire in...
Jun 4, 2021 · Two decades after the premiere of the landmark HBO drama, the creator Alan Ball and others look back on its tender portrait of familial dysfunction.
Apr 25, 2007 · Alan Ball, the youngest member of the England team that won the 1966 World Cup, died after trying to put out a fire in his garden. He was 61. Ball collapsed outside his home, Hampshire police...
Alan Ball represented England 72 times, scoring eight goals, and was appointed captain of the national side in 1975. Image via Mirrorpix. Ball played in the World Cup finals again that year, hitting the crossbar against Brazil in the group stage, before England went out in the quarter-finals.
A natural leader, Ball took on the captaincy at the start of the 1973/74 campaign and became Arsenal's most influential performer as the Double side of 1971 fragmented and a new generation of players - including Liam Brady - began to emerge.
