Sunday, March 1, 2020

British Sports Stars to win Male World Cups as Captain in Global Team Sports

British Sports Stars to win Male World Cups at Rugby, Curling, Ice Hockey, Hockey, Baseball, Basketball, Football, Volleyball, or Cricket as Captain, or Skip, in these global team sports.

The first British person to win an official World Cup at rugby, was Dave Valentine, a Scot in 1954.So Scotland had the first captain to win an official international team World Cup in rugby.
I will now list the British sports captains to have won the World Cup in these major sports of Rugby, Cricket, Ice Hockey, Curling, Hockey, Basketball, Baseball, Volleyball, and Football.

1936 Great Britain Ice Hockey Team. Captain Carl Erhardt. Born in Beckenham, England.
1938 Great Britain Baseball Team. Player Manager George 'Chummy' McNeil. Born in Nova Scotia, Canada.
1954 Great Britain Rugby League Team. Captain Dave Valentine. Born in Hawick, Scotland.
1960 Great Britain Rugby League Team. Captain Eric Ashton. Born in St Helens, England.
1966 England Football Team. Captain Bobby Moore. Born in Barking, England.
1967 Scotland Curling Team. Skip Chuck Hay. Born in ????
1972 Great Britain Rugby League Team. Captain Clive Sullivan. Born in Cardiff, Wales.
1991 Scotland Curling Team. Skip David Smith. Born in ???
1993 England Rugby Sevens Team. Captain Andrew Harriman. Born in Lagos, Nigeria.
1999 Scotland Curling Team. Skip Hammy McMillan. Born in Stranraer, Scotland.
2003 England Rugby Union Team. Captain Martin Johnson. Born in Solihull, England.
2006 Scotland Curling Team. Skip David Murdoch. Born in Dumfries, Scotland.
2009 Wales Rugby Sevens Team. Captain Lee Beach. Born in Maerdy, Wales.
2009 Scotland Curling Team. Skip David Murdoch. Born in Dumfries, Scotland.
2010 England and Wales T20 Cricket Team. Captain Paul Collingwood. Born in Shotley Bridge, England.
2019 England and Wales One Day Cricket Team. Captain Eoin Morgan. Born in Dublin, Republic of Ireland.

No British team has won the Basketball, Hockey, or Volleyball World Cups.
In baseball it seems teams do not tend to have captains. So I chose the player manager to represent the role of captain. McNeil also played Ice Hockey to a high standard, and was just 24 when he won the Baseball World Cup.
Obviously, in reference to the Cricket World Cup win, the Republic of Ireland is not part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. But this is listing the British teams who won the World Cups at these sports and where their captains were born.
I could not find the birthplace of two of the Skips, for the Scotland Curling team world champions. I assume they were born in Scotland. But as we see it is not always the case, that someone who captains a team at international sports, was born in the country they represent.
So far up this point. Five were born in England. Atleast Four born in Scotland. two were born in Wales, one was born in Canada, one was born in Nigeria, and one was born in the Republic of Ireland.
That is quite a list.

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