Frank Soo
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Frank Soo | ||
| Date of birth | 12 March 1914 | ||
| Place of birth | Buxton, England | ||
| Date of death | 25 January 1991 (aged 76) | ||
| Place of death | Cheadle, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | ||
| Playing position | Inside forward / Half back | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1932–1933 | Prescot Cables | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1933–1945 | Stoke City | 173 | (5) |
| 1943–1944 | → Brentford (guest) | 16 | |
| 1945–1946 | Leicester City | 0 | (0) |
| 1946–1948 | Luton Town | 71 | (4) |
| 1948–1950 | Chelmsford City | 82 | (10) |
| Total | 326 | (19) | |
| National team | |||
| 1942–1945 | England war team | 9 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1951–1952 | Calcio Padova | ||
| 1952 | Norway | ||
| 1953 | Eskilstuna | ||
| 1953–1954 | Örebro | ||
| 1954–1955 | Djurgården | ||
| 1956–1957 | IK Oddevold | ||
| 1958 | AIK | ||
| 1959–1960 | Scunthorpe United | ||
| 1960–196? | St Albans City | ||
| 1962 | Köping IS | ||
| 1963 | |||
| 1964 | Fredrikstad | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Frank Soo (12 March 1914 – 25 January 1991) was an English professional football player and manager of mixed Chinese and English parentage. Soo played as an inside forward in the Football League for Stoke City and Luton Town. He was first player of Chinese origin to play in the Football league, and the first non-white player to represent England (in unofficial wartime matches).
After ending his playing days at non-league Chelmsford City, he went on to coach various different European clubs in the 1950s and early 1960s. He was particularly active in Sweden, managing Eskilstuna, Örebro, Djurgårdens, IK Oddevold, AIK, Köping IS, and . He also coached Italian club Calcio Padova, English clubs Scunthorpe United and St Albans City, Norwegian side Fredrikstad, and also coached Norway at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He coached Djurgårdens to the Allsvenskan title in 1954–55.
Soo was born in Buxton, Derbyshire, and brought up in Liverpool. His parents, a Liverpool-based Chinese sailor father, Our Quong Soo (can also be transliterated as Ah Kwong Soo), and an English mother, Beatrice Whittam, had married in Chorlton, Manchester in 1908.
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