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My Take
Billy Wright is football history, plain and simple. The first player in the world to reach 100 international caps, captaining England and spending his entire club career at Wolverhampton Wanderers, he embodies a loyalty almost extinct in the modern game. What strikes me is the 70 consecutive competitive internationals, a record that stood for decades. The CBE and that little hometown of Ironbridge round out a portrait of a true one-club gentleman. Whenever I think about what football used to value, devotion over money, durability over hype, Wright is the name that comes to mind first.
Overview
William Ambrose Wright (6 February 1924 – 3 September 1994) was an English footballer who played as a centre-back. He spent his entire club career at Wolverhampton Wanderers. The first footballer in the world to earn 100 international caps, Wright also held the record for longest unbroken run in competitive international football, with 70 consecutive appearances, although that was surpassed by Andoni Zubizarreta's 86…
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Billy Wright
- Name (Japanese)
- ビリー・ライト
- Reading
- びりー・らいと
- Born
- February 6, 1924 – September 3, 1994
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aquarius / Rat
- Origin
- Ironbridge, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- association football player / association football coach
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttp://sirbillywright.com/
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%93%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.