John Elsworthy was a Welsh

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

 football player. A midfielder, he was signed by Ipswich Town manager Scott Duncan

Scott Duncan

Adam Scott Mattheson Duncan was a Scottish professional footballer and manager.-Playing career:Born in Dumbarton, Duncan was working as a law clerk when he joined his home-town club Dumbarton in 1906. He moved to Newcastle United in March 1908 for a fee of £150...

 in May 1949, after playing as an amateur for Newport County. He played all his professional club football for Ipswich Town

Ipswich Town F.C.

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. He won four championship medals during Ipswich's rise up the divisions in the 1950s. As a member of Ipswich, he won Division Three (South) in 1954 and 1957, Division Two in 1961, and the Division One league championship in 1962. He was selected to play for the Third division South representative team

Football League Third Division North vs. South Representative Games

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 in 1956/57.

Elsworthy was part of the Wales

Wales national football team

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 squad for the 1958 FIFA World Cup

1958 FIFA World Cup

The 1958 FIFA World Cup, the sixth staging of the World Cup, was hosted by Sweden from 8 June to 29 June. The tournament was won by Brazil, who beat Sweden 5–2 in the final for their first title. To date, this marks the only occasion that a World Cup staged in Europe was not won by a European...

 in Sweden

Sweden

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, but didn't travel to Sweden as the Welsh FA were too short of money to send a full squad. Although a member of the World Cup squad, Elsworthy was in fact never capped by his country. In all competitions, he played 435 games and scored 53 goals for Ipswich Town between 1949 and 1965. He was an inductee of the Ipswich Hall of Fame.

After retiring from football he ran a post office

Post office

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 branch in Ipswich. In his later years, he suffered from Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease

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. He died in May 2009, aged 77.