Robert Frederick Chelsea Moore or Bobby Moore as he is commonly known as, is a footballing legend. He was an English footballing hero who was part of the team that won the 1966 World Cup. He was born in Barking, London on 12th April 1941.
He spent his professional career playing for West Ham United, Fulham, San Antonio Thunder, Seattle Sounders and Herning Fremad. He was captain of the West Ham team for more then 10 years from 1958 – 1974. Not only was he playing for England when they won the 1966 World Cup but he was the captain. Every footballer in the World dreams of winning a prestigious tornament such as the World Cup.
In 1978 Bobby Moore retired from playing professional football. He did not leave the sport altogether but took managing positions at Eastern AA in Hong Kong, Oxford City and Southend. All of these positions were relatively unsuccessful. After the failure of his managing career Bobby took a job a newspaper columnist for the tabloid newspaper, The Sunday Sport.
On the 24th February 1993 Bobby sadly lost his life to cancer. He announced just seven days earlIE that He was suffering from Bowl cancer. His final public appearance was the commentating of the England match agasint Sam Marino. The Bobby Moore Fund is charity set up in Bobby’s honour to raise money for research and treatment of bowl cancer.
At the new Wembley stadium there is a bronze statue erected to pay tribute to Bobby and whathe did for the game.