Personal information | |||
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Full name | Alvin Ainsley Corneal | ||
Date of birth | 13 October 1937 | ||
Place of birth | San Juan, Trinidad and Tobago | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Maple | |||
International career | |||
1959–1967 | Trinidad and Tobago | 24 | (13) |
1962 | Barbados [1] | 3 | (1) |
Managerial career | |||
1994–1997 | NC State Wolfpack | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Cricket information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Batting | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Domestic team information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1958–59 to 1959–60 | South Trinidad | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1959–60 to 1970–71 | Trinidad | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1962–63 to 1969–70 | North Trinidad | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1970–71 to 1976–77 | East Trinidad | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Career statistics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricket Archive,7 July 2014 |
Alvin Ainsley Corneal (born 13 October 1937,San Juan,Trinidad and Tobago) is a Trinidad and Tobago former footballer. Corneal also played three unofficial matches with Barbados in 1962 when the latter was not yet a FIFA member. [2] He also played 40 matches of first-class cricket for Trinidad and Tobago and other Trinidad teams between 1959 and 1977 as an opening batsman.
He also coached NC State Wolfpack women's soccer. [3]
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