fullname youthclubs years death_place clubs caps birth_place goals nationalteam totalcaps position nationalcaps birth_date totalgoals article_title name nationalgoals
ronald burgess cwm villa 1954 & ndash ; 1956 swansea , wales cwm villa swansea town 297 47 cwm , ebbw vale , wales 14 1 wales 344 left half 32 9 april 1917 15 ron burgess -lrb- footballer -rrb-
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ron burgess -lrb- footballer -rrb-

william arthur ronald `` ronnie '' burgess -lrb- 9 april 1917 -- 14 february 2005 -rrb- was a wales international footballer , who played in the wing half position .
burgess worked as a miner before joining tottenham hotspur from his local team cwm villa .
he went on to captain the league championship winning `` spurs '' team of the 1951 season , the year after he had helped them win the division 2 crown .
burgess captained the wales national football team and won 32 caps for his country as a left half .
he also played for the great britain team against the rest of europe in 1947 .
burgess joined swansea town in 1954 as a player and played until 1956 , taking over as manager of swansea town from 1955 to 1958 .
he was then manager of watford from 1959 to 1963 , where he steered the club to its first-ever promotion in his first full season in charge , and nearly managed a second successive promotion the following year .
however , watford 's league form and burgess 's popularity with the fans plummeted after he sold star player cliff holton , and he was sacked when the club were nearly relegated in 1963 .
burgess also acted as caretaker manager of the wales national team for one match in 1965 due to the unavailability of team manager dave bowen .
