In the semi-finals, West Ham defended a 2–1 home win over Spanish club Real Zaragoza with a 1–1 draw at La Romareda to claim a place in the 1965 European Cup Winners' Cup Final against TSV 1860 München at Wembley.
Sir Geoffrey Charles Hurst (born 8 December 1941) is an English former professional footballer.
He also had a brief cricket career, making one first-class appearance for Essex in 1962, before concentrating on football. ==Early life== Hurst was born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, on 8 December 1941.
Manager Ted Fenton first selected him for a senior game in a Southern Floodlit Cup tie with Fulham in December 1958.
Alongside Bobby Moore, both played in the 1959 FA Youth Cup final team that lost to Blackburn Rovers (1–2 on aggregate), but both were also in the team that won the Southern Junior Floodlit Cup (1–0 v Chelsea) later that year.
He made only two further appearances in the 1959–60 season, and realised that Bobby Moore was making better progress in the same position than he was.
His first competitive appearance came in February 1960 when injuries forced Fenton's hand; Hurst put in an indifferent performance and the team lost 3–1.
He played six times in the 1960–61 campaign and seriously considered turning his main focus to cricket.
In April 1961 Ron Greenwood took over as manager, and drastically changed team training by putting a focus on footballing skill rather than physical fitness. Hurst missed the start of 1961–62 pre-season training due to his cricketing commitments, but went on to make 24 appearances at left-half, and scored his first goal for the club in a 4–2 victory over Wolverhampton Wanderers in December 1961.
He also had a brief cricket career, making one first-class appearance for Essex in 1962, before concentrating on football. ==Early life== Hurst was born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, on 8 December 1941.
As a teenager he was obsessed with football, and was once fined £1 for disturbing the peace after consistently kicking a football into his neighbour's garden. Hurst played one first-class cricket match for Essex, against Lancashire at Aigburth in 1962, although it was not a successful outing: he made 0 not out in the first innings, and was bowled by Colin Hilton, again for 0, in the second.
However, he appeared 23 times in the Essex Second XI between 1962 and 1964, usually as a wicketkeeper, before concentrating entirely on football. Under his father's management of the club, Hurst played once for Halstead Town reserves at the age of "about 14". ==Club career== ===West Ham United=== Hurst's football career began when he was apprenticed to West Ham United at the age of 15.
However, he again missed pre-season training the following summer and was dropped after proving to be unfit during the opening game of the 1962–63 season.
He formed a successful partnership with Johnny Byrne and went on to score 13 goals in 27 First Division games whilst Byrne scored nine in 30 games in the 1962–63 season.
In the summer of 1963 he joined the club on their pre-season tour of New York, and greatly benefited from playing against top quality players from clubs across the world in the International Soccer League, a friendly tournament. Hurst and West Ham had a poor start to the 1963–64 season, and went on to finish in 14th place.
There he won the FA Cup in 1964 and the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1965.
However, he appeared 23 times in the Essex Second XI between 1962 and 1964, usually as a wicketkeeper, before concentrating entirely on football. Under his father's management of the club, Hurst played once for Halstead Town reserves at the age of "about 14". ==Club career== ===West Ham United=== Hurst's football career began when he was apprenticed to West Ham United at the age of 15.
West Ham faced Second Division Preston North End at Wembley in the 1964 FA Cup Final, and had to come from behind twice to win the match 3–2.
Hurst scored his side's second equaliser with a header that bounced under the crossbar and ended up just over the goal line. The club's success won them a place in the European Cup Winners Cup for the 1964–65 season.
They have been married since 13 October 1964, having met three years previously at a youth centre; Eddie Presland was best man.
There he won the FA Cup in 1964 and the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1965.
In the semi-finals, West Ham defended a 2–1 home win over Spanish club Real Zaragoza with a 1–1 draw at La Romareda to claim a place in the 1965 European Cup Winners' Cup Final against TSV 1860 München at Wembley.
West Ham won 2–0, Alan Sealey scoring both goals, to give the club their first European trophy. Having scored 40 goals in 59 competitive games in the 1965–66 season and then gone on to make himself a household name by winning the World Cup with England, Hurst was the subject of a £200,000 transfer offer by Manchester United manager Matt Busby – the offer was rejected by Greenwood.
A striker, he remains the only man to score a hat-trick in a World Cup final, when England recorded a 4–2 victory over West Germany at Wembley Stadium in 1966. Hurst began his career with West Ham United, where he scored 242 goals in 500 first team appearances.
He later coached Kuwait SC before leaving the game to concentrate on his business commitments. In total he scored 24 goals in 49 England appearances, and as well as success in the 1966 World Cup he also appeared at UEFA Euro 1968 and the 1970 FIFA World Cup.
He was in the West Ham side which lost the League Cup final, 5–3 on aggregate to West Bromwich Albion. In the 1966–67 season, West Ham demonstrated the inconsistency that would deny them a realistic prospect of winning a league championship under Greenwood.
He was the team's second-leading scorer, helping the Sounders make it to the play-offs for the first time in their brief history, with eight goals and four assists in 23 regular season games, and one goal in the play-offs. ==International career== ===1966 World Cup=== Hurst made his senior England debut against West Germany on 23 February 1966.
He played well, and further performances against Scotland and Yugoslavia secured him a place in the squad for the 1966 FIFA World Cup.
After leaving Kuwait in April 1984 he returned to the insurance trade. ==Legacy== In 2003 Hurst was included in The Champions, a statue of 1966 World Cup winning footballers, by sculptor Philip Jackson.
He is shown alongside two other World Cup winners born in the area, fellow 1966 squad member Jimmy Armfield, and Simone Perrotta, who won it with Italy in 2006. ==Personal life== He now lives in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, with his wife Judith.
He later coached Kuwait SC before leaving the game to concentrate on his business commitments. In total he scored 24 goals in 49 England appearances, and as well as success in the 1966 World Cup he also appeared at UEFA Euro 1968 and the 1970 FIFA World Cup.
Hurst scored a hat-trick as they defeated full-strength title challengers Leeds United 7–0 in the League Cup, but they exited the FA Cup with a 3–1 defeat to Third Division side Swindon Town. Hurst scored six goals in a First Division match against Sunderland at Upton Park on 19 October 1968, which West Ham won 8–0.
managers UEFA Euro 1968 players West Bromwich Albion F.C.
He did play, and score, in the 2–0 third-place play-off victory over the Soviet Union at the Stadio Olimpico. Hurst scored his second international hat-trick on 12 March 1969, in a 5–0 victory over France, and was named in the Ramsey squad which played in Mexico to defend the World Cup in 1970.
He later coached Kuwait SC before leaving the game to concentrate on his business commitments. In total he scored 24 goals in 49 England appearances, and as well as success in the 1966 World Cup he also appeared at UEFA Euro 1968 and the 1970 FIFA World Cup.
He did play, and score, in the 2–0 third-place play-off victory over the Soviet Union at the Stadio Olimpico. Hurst scored his second international hat-trick on 12 March 1969, in a 5–0 victory over France, and was named in the Ramsey squad which played in Mexico to defend the World Cup in 1970.
He was sold to Stoke City in 1972 for £80,000.
However, he regretted admitting that he handled the ball in his first goal which led to the back page headlines focusing on the illegitimate goal rather than the rare feat of one player scoring six goals in one game. In 1972, West Ham reached the semi-finals of the League Cup when they played Stoke City over two legs.
Stoke won the tie in the subsequent replay and denied Hurst one more final appearance at Wembley. ===Stoke City=== Hurst was sold to Stoke City for a £80,000 fee in August 1972.
The West Germans scored in extra time and won 3–2. Hurst scored against Greece and Switzerland in qualification for UEFA Euro 1972, but played his last international match on 29 April 1972 as England were beaten 3–1 by West Germany – he was replaced by Rodney Marsh with 20 minutes left to play and did not take to the field in an England shirt again.
He was struck down with pneumonia early in 1973 and went to South Africa to recover, playing on loan for Roy Bailey's Cape Town City.
Hudson adapted well to life in the Hurst household and Stoke recorded a fifth place in the 1973–74 season – a career high for Hurst. Hurst scored 11 goals in 41 games in the 1974–75 season and helped Stoke to finish in fifth place, just four points behind champions Derby County. ===West Bromwich Albion=== Hurst was sold to Johnny Giles's West Bromwich Albion in the summer of 1975 for a fee of £20,000.
He missed just four games for Stoke and upon his return he helped the side to maintain their First Division status. In January 1974, "Potters" manager Tony Waddington asked Hurst to take in new signing Alan Hudson as a lodger so as to provide the talented but troubled midfielder with a stable home during his Stoke career.
Hudson adapted well to life in the Hurst household and Stoke recorded a fifth place in the 1973–74 season – a career high for Hurst. Hurst scored 11 goals in 41 games in the 1974–75 season and helped Stoke to finish in fifth place, just four points behind champions Derby County. ===West Bromwich Albion=== Hurst was sold to Johnny Giles's West Bromwich Albion in the summer of 1975 for a fee of £20,000.
Hudson adapted well to life in the Hurst household and Stoke recorded a fifth place in the 1973–74 season – a career high for Hurst. Hurst scored 11 goals in 41 games in the 1974–75 season and helped Stoke to finish in fifth place, just four points behind champions Derby County. ===West Bromwich Albion=== Hurst was sold to Johnny Giles's West Bromwich Albion in the summer of 1975 for a fee of £20,000.
He played 12 times for the Baggies at the start of the 1975–76 season, scoring twice, before deciding to leave for America.
After three seasons with Stoke he finished his Football League career with West Bromwich Albion in 1976.
Hurst later acknowledged that at the age of 34 he was too old to lead the line in the "Baggies" push for promotion out of the Second Division. ===Later career=== Hurst signed for Cork Celtic in January 1976, and remained in Ireland for one month. He signed for the Seattle Sounders of the NASL in 1976.
He spent three years as player-manager of Telford United in the Southern League before being recruited by Ron Greenwood in the England coaching set up in 1977.
He also coached in the England set-up before a two-year stint as Chelsea manager from 1979 to 1981.
He travelled with England to help Greenwood at UEFA Euro 1980 and the 1982 FIFA World Cup, where England failed to make it past the group stages on both occasions. ===Chelsea=== Hurst joined Chelsea, then in the Second Division, before the 1979–80 season, initially as assistant manager to Danny Blanchflower.
He travelled with England to help Greenwood at UEFA Euro 1980 and the 1982 FIFA World Cup, where England failed to make it past the group stages on both occasions. ===Chelsea=== Hurst joined Chelsea, then in the Second Division, before the 1979–80 season, initially as assistant manager to Danny Blanchflower.
He also coached in the England set-up before a two-year stint as Chelsea manager from 1979 to 1981.
He travelled with England to help Greenwood at UEFA Euro 1980 and the 1982 FIFA World Cup, where England failed to make it past the group stages on both occasions. ===Chelsea=== Hurst joined Chelsea, then in the Second Division, before the 1979–80 season, initially as assistant manager to Danny Blanchflower.
After leaving Kuwait in April 1984 he returned to the insurance trade. ==Legacy== In 2003 Hurst was included in The Champions, a statue of 1966 World Cup winning footballers, by sculptor Philip Jackson.
After leaving Kuwait in April 1984 he returned to the insurance trade. ==Legacy== In 2003 Hurst was included in The Champions, a statue of 1966 World Cup winning footballers, by sculptor Philip Jackson.
It sits at the junctions of Barking Road and Central Park Road, Newham, London, near to the site of West Ham United's former home stadium, the Boleyn Ground and features Martin Peters, Hurst, Bobby Moore and Ray Wilson. Hurst's contribution to the English game was recognised in 2004 when he was inducted in the English Football Hall of Fame.
He is shown alongside two other World Cup winners born in the area, fellow 1966 squad member Jimmy Armfield, and Simone Perrotta, who won it with Italy in 2006. ==Personal life== He now lives in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, with his wife Judith.
Hurst is also one of the few footballers who have been knighted. A statue of Hurst was unveiled outside Curzon Ashton F.C.'s ground in 2010.
They had three daughters but the eldest Claire died in 2010 after a 10 year long battle against a brain tumour. In November 2020, Hurst offered to donate his brain after his death for research into dementia.
They had three daughters but the eldest Claire died in 2010 after a 10 year long battle against a brain tumour. In November 2020, Hurst offered to donate his brain after his death for research into dementia.
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