Trevor Edwards

i{{Short description|Welsh footballer (1937–2024)}} {{for|the Australian bishop|Trevor Edwards (bishop)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2024}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Trevor Edwards | full_name = Leonard Trevor Edwards | birth_date = {{birth date|1937|01|24|df=y}} | birth_place = Rhondda, Wales | death_date = {{death date and age|2024|05|30|1937|01|24|df=y}} | death_place = Queensland, Australia | position = Full-back | years1 = 1956–1960 | clubs1 = Charlton Athletic | caps1 = 64 | goals1 = 0 | years2 = 1960–1964 | clubs2 = Cardiff City | caps2 = 73 | goals2 = 3 | years3 = 1964–1968 | clubs3 = Sydney Hakoah | years4 = 1969 | clubs4 = Melita Eagles | years5 = 1970–1972 | clubs5 = Marconi | nationalteam1 = Wales U23 | nationalcaps1 = 2 | nationalyears2 = 1957 | nationalteam2 = Wales | nationalcaps2 = 2 | nationalgoals2 = 0 | nationalteam3 = Australia B | nationalcaps3 = 1 | nationalgoals3 = 0 }}

'''Leonard Trevor Edwards''' (24 January 1937 – 30 May 2024) was a Welsh footballer. A full-back, he played his club football for Charlton Athletic.<ref>"The PFA Premier League and Football League Players' Records 1946–1998" Hugman, B: Harpenden, Queen Anne Press, 1998 {{ISBN|1-85291-585-4}}.</ref> He was part of the Wales squad for the 1958 FIFA World Cup in Sweden. In the sixties he emigrated to Australia,<ref name="ozf1">{{cite web|url=http://www.ozfootball.net/ark/Players/E/EA.html|title=Australian Player Database – E|publisher=ozfootball.net|accessdate=23 October 2009}}</ref><ref>allfootballers.com Retrieved 23 October 2009</ref> where he played for Sydney Hakoah, Melita Eagles and Marconi with whom he won the Australian Championship.<ref>''When Pelé Broke Our Hearts: Wales and the 1958 World Cup'' by Mario Risoli (1998) {{ISBN|1-902719-02-6}}</ref> After his football career, Edwards stayed in Australia, living in Queensland. He died in Queensland on 30 May 2024, aged 87.<ref>{{Cite web |date=30 May 2024 |title=Former Wales international Edwards dies aged 87 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cv22dljzlrko#:~:text=Former%20Wales%20defender%20Trevor%20Edwards,in%20the%20finals%20in%20Sweden. |access-date=30 May 2024 |website=BBC Sport}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Dowling |first=Rob |date=2024-05-30 |title=Trevor Edwards |url=https://faw.cymru/news/trevor-edwards/ |access-date=2024-05-30 |website=Football Association of Wales |language=}}</ref>

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