Vic Buckingham
Midfielder, Football team manager
1915 – 1995
Who was Vic Buckingham?
Victor Frederick Buckingham was an English footballer whose approach as a manager was a precursor of the Total Football philosophy.
Buckingham joined Tottenham Hotspur in 1934 and played the first season for Tottenham Hotspur nursery club Northfleet United. After that single season he returned to Tottenham and played 230 games as a defensive midfielder before leaving in 1949. He started his managerial career with amateur team Pegasus followed by Bradford Park Avenue, then a Football League side, before taking over at West Bromwich Albion in 1953. He became the club's longest serving post-war manager, almost leading them to an elusive 'double' in 1954 when they won the FA Cup and finished second in the league.
During his management of Ajax, he spotted the young Johan Cruijff who was to go on to develop Buckingham's ideas into the mature concept of Total Football. Buckingham's ideas were radically ahead of his time - engendering total football philosophies and youth systems - and earned him a continental reputation that more often than not, overshadowed his talent back home.
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- Born
- Oct 23, 1915
Greenwich - Nationality
- England
- Lived in
- Greenwich
- Died
- Jan 26, 1995
Chichester
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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