Soccer (Football) Player and Manager (Coach), Author. Original name Robert William Robson. He first became known as a forward for Fulham and West Bromwich Albion in the English First and Second divisions and Vancouver in the NASL, scoring 141 times in 627 games, and was selected to play for England 20 times, scoring 4 times. But his greatest fame came as a manager after his retirement as a player: in particular, the manager of the English national team from 1982 to 1990. With England he took the team to the 1986 and 1990 FIFA World Cups, losing the quarterfinals in 1986 to Argentina, on Maradona's "Hand of God" and "Goal of the Century" goals, and losing the semifinals in 1990 to Germany on penalty kicks. Both losses were to the eventual champions. He began his management career at Fulham in 1968 and moved to Ipswich Town in 1969. He was very successful at Ipswich Town, winning the FA Cup in 1978 and the UEFA Cup in 1981 and regularly finishing as a top 6 team in England's First Division. This success led to the offer to manage England. After his time with England, he managed many international clubs including PSV Eindhoven of Holland, Sporting CP and Porto of Portugal, FC Barcelona of Spain, and Newcastle United of England. He won the Dutch league with PSV in 1991 and 1992 and won the Portuguese Cup in 1994 and the Portuguese league in 1995 and 1996 with Porto. He mentored a young Jose Mourinho at Porto and was responsible for the signing of Ronaldo at Barcelona in 1996. He won the Spanish Super Cup in 1996 and the Spanish Copa del Rey and European Cup Winners Cup with Barcelona in 1997. He also had success at Newcastle from 1999 to 2004, where he took them from the bottom of the league to fourth and third place finishes in 2001 and 2002. He was fired in August 2004 after a poor start to the season. His last job in soccer was as a consultant to the Irish National Team in 2006 and 2007. His success is even more surprising as he was suffering from cancer through most of his post-England career. He was first diagnosed in 1992, with recurrences in 1995 and 2006. This led him to form the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation in 2008 to fight the disease, to which he devoted the remaining years of his life. He was awarded the CBE in 1990 for his contributions to soccer and was knighted in 2002. He was chosen as European Manager of the Year in 1997. He was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2003 as a manager, and received the Emerald UEFA Order of Merit in 2009, shortly before his death from lung cancer. He was the honorary president of Ipswich Town from 2006 until his death. A statue stands outside Portman Road Stadium in Ipswich. His autobiography, "Bobby Robson: Farewell but not Goodbye" was a best seller in 2005.