Jimmy Melia	Liverpool FC 2 appearances, 1 goal P 2 W 1 D 0 L 1 F 9: A 3 50% successful 1962-63 disciplined: none captain: none minutes played: 180
Profile
Full name	James Melia
Born	1 November 1937 in Scotland Road, Liverpool, Lancashire [registered in Liverpool South, March 1938]. Apparently the fifth child of eleven. Attended St. Anthony's School, Scotland Road.
Height/Weight	5' 8½", 10st. 12lbs [1963].
Source	Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & Ancestry.com
Club Career
Club(s)	Played his schoolboy football in Liverpool and for England before being signed by Liverpool FC. He joined the groundstaff in 1953. He turned professional on 1 November 1954. He spent just over nine years at Anfield, playing 269 league matches, scoring 76 times, before securing a £55,000 move to Wolverhampton Wanderers FC in March 1964. Before the end of the year, and 24 league appearances and four goals, in December, Melia joined Southampton FC for a club record transfer fee £30,000.  After 139 league apearances and eleven goals, Aldershot FC signed Melia as a player-coach in November 1968, it cost them £9,000. He stepped up to player-manager role from April 1969. After 134 league appearances and fourteen goals, he was sacked in January 1972. He was signed by Crewe Alexandra FC as their player-manager in May 1972 until December 1974. He retired from playing after only four league appearances for The Alex.
Club honours	Football League Division Two winners 1961-62, runners-up 1965-66; Football League Champions 1963-64;
Individual honours	Football League (one appearance)
Distinctions	None
Source	Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990].
Management Career
Club(s)	Melia became the manager at Southport FC in July 1975 until September that year. Later in 1975, he was coaching in the Middle East and then scouted for the Southern California Lasers in the NSL in 1978. A year later, he was head coach of Cleveland Cobras. He was scouting for Brighton & Hove Albion FC, before serving as their manager from March to October 1963. He left to manage CF Os Belenense in Portugal before returning to manage Stockport County FC from July to November 1986.
Club honours	FA Cup runners-up 1982-83
England Career
Player number	One of three who became 816th players (818) to appear for England.
Position(s)	Inside-left
First match	No. 367, 6 April 1963, England 1 Scotland 2, a British Championship match at Empire Stadium, Wembley, London, aged 25 years 156 days.
Last match	No. 371, 5 June 1963, Switzerland 1 England 8, an end-of-season tour match at Sankt Jakob Stadium, Basel, aged 25 years 216 days.
Major tournaments	World Cup Finals 1962 (provisional squad); British Championship 1962-63;
Team honours	None
Individual honours	England Youth, England Schoolboy (one appearance, 1953).
Distinctions	None
Beyond England
Took on various coaching and managerial roles. After 1989, Jimmy was coaching youths in academies in Sharjah, UAE. He coaches youths in America for Liverpool FC as a Technical Director. - An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who. Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.171.

Jimmy Melia - Match History
Club: Liverpool F.C. - 2 full appearances manager: Walter Winterbottom - 0 full capsx
Age 24
355		4 April 1962 - England 3 Austria 1, Empire Stadium, Wembley	Fr	HW	reserve
FIFA set a deadline of 10 April 1962 for preliminary lists of forty players to be submitted. England's selectors produced theirs, two days early. Following England's defeat by Scotland at Hampden Park, the squad was whittled down to 22 names on 15 April, with 18 names excluded including Jimmy Melia.
manager: Alf Ramsey - 2 full capsx
Age 25
1	367	6 April 1963 - England 1 Scotland 2, Empire Stadium, Wembley	BC	HL	Start	10
-	369	29 May 1963 - Czechoslovakia 2 England 4, Tehelné pole, Bratislava	tour	AW	squad member
-	370	2 June 1963 - GDR 1 England 2, Zentralstadion, Leipzig		AW
2	371	5 June 1963 - Switzerland 1 England 8, Sankt Jakob Stadium, Basel		AW	Start 83	10

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