Sammy Morgan
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Samuel John Morgan | ||
| Date of birth | 3 December 1946 | ||
| Place of birth | Belfast, Northern Ireland | ||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Gorleston | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1970–1973 | Port Vale | 114 | (25) |
| 1973–1975 | Aston Villa | 40 | (9) |
| 1975–1977 | Brighton & Hove Albion | 35 | (8) |
| 1977–1978 | Cambridge United | 37 | (4) |
| 1978–1979 | Sparta Rotterdam | 23 | (5) |
| 1979–1980 | FC Groningen | 17 | (2) |
| Gorleston | |||
| Total | 266+ | (53+) | |
| National team | |||
| 1972–1978 | Northern Ireland | 18 | (3) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1982–1985 | Gorleston | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Samuel John Morgan (born 3 December 1946) is a Northern Irish former footballer, who now works as Academy Manager at Ipswich Town.
Moving from non-league Gorleston to Port Vale in 1970, the young forward picked up the club's Player of the Year award 1972, before winning a move to Aston Villa the following year. Villa won promotion out of the Second Division in 1974–75, though he was never a first team regular and so was sold on to Brighton & Hove Albion later in 1975. Helping Brighton to promotion out of the Third Division in 1976–77, following this success he moved on to Cambridge United. With United he won promotion out of the third tier for a second successive season, before moving on to Sparta Rotterdam in the Netherlands. In 1979, he transferred to FC Groningen, helping them to the Eerste Divisie title in 1979–80. He then returned to his native Gorleston, who he later managed.
Between 1972 and 1978 he won eighteen caps for Northern Ireland, and scored three goals at international level. These goals came against Spain, Cyprus, and Norway.
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