Alby Green

Albert Green (28 Janairu 1874 –  ) ɗan ƙwallon ƙafa ne na ƙasar Australiya wanda ya buga wasa tare da Norwood a gasar SAFA kuma ɗan wasan kurket na aji ɗaya wanda ya buga wa Kudancin Ostiraliya wasa.

 Rayuwa ta farko 
An haife shi a Menindee, New South Wales, Green ya girma a Adelaide kuma ya fara shahara a ƙwallon ƙafa ta hanyar karatunsa a Kwalejin Saint Peters da ke Adelaide sannan kuma a Makarantar Geelong Grammar. A Geelong, ya jagoranci ƙungiyar ƙwallon ƙafa ta makarantar da ƙungiyar cricket, ya yi kwale-kwale a kan kogin kuma ya kasance zakaran ɗan wasan tennis, ɗan wasa kuma mai tambari.

 Sana'ar wasa 
Ya buga wasanni 13 na ƙungiyar ƙwallon ƙafa ta Victorian (VFA) a ƙungiyar ƙwallon ƙafa ta Geelong a shekarar 1892.

A shekara ta 1893 yana da shekaru 19, ya dawo Adelaide, Kudancin Ostiraliya a ƙarshen kakar wasan kurket, kuma ya buga wa Norwood Cricket Club wasa. Wasanninsa sun haifar da kyakkyawan sakamako. Ya yi fice a ƙungiyar ƙwallon ƙafa ta Norwood a SAFA kuma wasansa tun daga farko har zuwa ƙarshen kakar wasa ta 1893 ya kasance jerin nasarori masu kyau. An ruwaito cewa yana da wayo sosai, mai kirki, kuma mai hazaka, kuma kyawawan ayyukansa a kowane fanni na wasan sun sanya shi sama da kowane ɗan wasa.[1]

A matsayinsa na ɗan wasan rover, Green ya kasance memba na ƙungiyar Norwood ta farko a gasar Premier ta 1894. A shekarar 1898, Green ya zama wanda ya lashe lambar yabo ta Magarey Medal wadda William Magarey, Shugaban SAFA, ya ba shi saboda ɗan wasa mafi adalci da hazaka a kakar wasa.  Lokacin da 'yan wasa suka haɗu da ƙungiyoyin gida ta hanyar zama, ya yi ritaya daga wasan maimakon canza ƙungiyoyi ko ƙaura zuwa gida. 

Ya kuma buga wasanni bakwai na wasan kurket na farko a Kudancin Ostiraliya tsakanin 1894–95 da 1898–99.

 Lambar Magarey ta 1898 
A shekarar 1935, an gano lambar yabo ta Green's Magarey Medal a wani shagon dillalin kaya, kuma wani babban mai ba da agaji na Norwood, Ted Heidenreich, ya saye ta, wanda ya ba wa kulob din. Har yanzu tana nan a Gidan Tarihi na Norwood Football Club.

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