Joe Watson (footballer)

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Joe Watson
Personal information
Full name	Joseph Watson
Date of birth	1 January 1952
Place of birth	Fife, Scotland
Place of death	Australia
Playing position	Winger
Youth clubs
1968–1970	Nottingham Forest
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1970–1972 1972–1973 1973–1976 1977–1986 1988 1989	Dundee United Forfar Athletic Sydney Hakoah Sydney City A.P.I.A. Leichhardt Rockdale City Suns	008 0(0) 035 0(4) 016 0(2) 258 (30)
National team
	Australia	17 (?)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Joseph (Joe) Watson (born 1 January 1952, date of death unknown) was a Scottish footballer who played as a winger in a 24-year career extending from 1968 to 1992.

A native of Fife, Joe Watson had been playing with Nottingham Forest since the age of 16, but began his professional career at 18 in 1970 with Dundee United, participating in a handful of games before joining Forfar Athletic in 1972. After on season with Forfar, Watson immigrated to Australia in 1973 where, like another Scottish player for United, Kenny Murphy, he spent many seasons playing international football for Australia national football team, primarily Sydney City.

Joe Watson was diagnosed with liver cancer and a day of charity matches was scheduled in August 2000 to raise funds for the former Australian international.^[1]

[edit] Honours

• National Soccer League Player of the Year: 1
  

1983

• National Grand Final (Runner-up): 1
  

1985

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Joe Watson career statistics
• Article mentioning Joe Watson's death

Persondata
NAME	Watson, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Footballer
DATE OF BIRTH	01 January 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dundee, Scotland
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH