Joe Fascione
Personal information
Full name Joseph Victor Fascione[1]
Date of birth (1945-02-05)5 February 1945
Place of birth Coatbridge, Scotland
Date of death 5 February 2019(2019-02-05) (aged 74)
Position(s) Winger
Youth career
1959–1961 Burnbank United
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1961–1962 Kirkintilloch Rob Roy
1962–1969 Chelsea 29 (1)
1969–1971 Durban City
1972 Dundee United 0 (0)
1972 Barnet 34 (1)
Romford
Barking
Managerial career
Barking
1993-94 Croydon
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Joseph Victor Fascione (5 February 1945 – 5 February 2019) was a Scottish footballer who played as a winger.

Career

A right sided winger, Fascione started out with Scottish junior side Kirkintilloch Rob Roy[2] where he won the Scottish Junior Cup in 1962 – believed to be the youngest player to do so – before being signed for Londoners Chelsea by Tommy Docherty in September of that year.[3] Fascione would remain with the club until 1969, but the presence of fellow wingers Bert Murray and Charlie Cooke ensured that he featured only sporadically in the first team, making a total of just 34 appearances. He was, however, one of the eight players infamously sent home by Docherty for breaking a pre-match curfew in Blackpool in April 1965.

Upon leaving Chelsea he signed for Durban City F.C. in South Africa in the summer of 1969.[4] He returned to the UK in late 1971, but due to problems in having his playing registration released from South Africa was unable to sign for a club until July 1972. He then joined Dundee United on a trial basis but was released shortly afterwards, having only appeared in pre-season friendly matches.[5]

He subsequently had spells with Romford in the Southern League,[4] and Barking. He also had a stint as manager of the latter club.[6]

He died on 5 February 2019, his 74th birthday.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Joe Fascione". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  2. ↑ Joe Fascione at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Database
  3. ↑ Scottish junior football's young achievers: Norrie Corbett and Joe Fascione, Douglas Gorman, Scottish Sport History, 14 May 2021
  4. 1 2 Scott Cheshire and Ron Hockings (31 October 1986). Chelsea Football Club The Full Statistical Story 1905 - 1986. R. Hockings. ISBN 0-9511640-0-7.
  5. ↑ Gracie, Steve (2009). The Rise of the Terrors : Dundee United FC, a Comprehensive History 1945-1979. Dundee: Arabest Publishing. p. 327. ISBN 9780955834110.
  6. ↑ Archive – Past Managers Archived 16 September 2016 at the Wayback Machine Barking F.C.
  7. ↑ "Joe Fascione, 1945-2019 - Official Site - Chelsea Football Club". ChelseaFC.


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