Duncan Edwards

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Gender	Male
Death	65 years ago
Date of birth	October 1,1936
Zodiac sign	Libra
Born	Woodside
	Brierley Hill
	United Kingdom
Date of died	February 21,1958
Died	Munich
	Germany
Height	180 (cm)
Buried	Dudley Cemetery, Dudley, United Kingdom
Position	Left half
Parents	Gladstone Edwards
	Sarah Anne Edwards
Job	Footballer
Place of burial	Dudley Cemetery, Dudley, United Kingdom
19491952	England Schoolboys
Date of Reg.	2019-02-21 23:39:20
Date of Upd.	2023-09-22 11:23:52
ID	443156

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Duncan Edwards Life story

Duncan Edwards was an English footballer who played as a left-half for Manchester United and the England national team. He was one of the Busby Babes, the young United team formed under manager Matt Busby in the mid-1950s, playing 177 matches for the club.

Manchester United: Sir Matt Busby film tells 'one of the great football stories'

Feb 16,2020 7:48 am

... Turning point The focus of the film is inevitably the 1958 Munich Air disaster, which took the lives of 23 people, including club staff, journalists and eight of Busby s young stars - including the imperious Duncan Edwards - on the way back from a European Cup tie in Yugoslavia...