The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as
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The result was: promoted by
Yoninah (
talk) 01:32, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
... that Frank Soo was the first non-white person ever to play for the
England national football team? "He also guested for Newcastle United, Blackburn Rovers, Everton, Chelsea, Reading, Brentford, Port Vale, Crewe Alexandra, Millwall, and Burnley, and played nine times for the England national football team between 1942 and 1945 (in Wartime and Victory Internationals),[23][24][25] the first non-white person ever to play for the national team (albeit in semi-official matches only) and the only person of East Asian descent to date. White, Jonathan (13 December 2018).
"Frank Soo Street hopes to put England's pioneering Asian footballer on the map". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 23 December 2019."
The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as
this nomination's talk page,
the article's talk page or
Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by
Yoninah (
talk) 01:32, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
... that Frank Soo was the first non-white person ever to play for the
England national football team? "He also guested for Newcastle United, Blackburn Rovers, Everton, Chelsea, Reading, Brentford, Port Vale, Crewe Alexandra, Millwall, and Burnley, and played nine times for the England national football team between 1942 and 1945 (in Wartime and Victory Internationals),[23][24][25] the first non-white person ever to play for the national team (albeit in semi-official matches only) and the only person of East Asian descent to date. White, Jonathan (13 December 2018).
"Frank Soo Street hopes to put England's pioneering Asian footballer on the map". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 23 December 2019."