Edward Aquilina
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 2 September 1945 | ||
| Place of birth | Malta | ||
| Date of death | 6 June 2021 (aged 75) | ||
| Place of death | Sliema, Malta | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1960–1963 | Melita | ||
| 1963–1967 | Sliema Wanderers | ||
| 1967 | Pittsburgh Phantoms | 10 | (4) |
| 1967–1970 | Hibernians | ||
| 1970–1979 | Sliema Wanderers | ||
| International career | |||
| 1966–1976 | Malta | 12 | (1) |
| Managerial career | |||
| Sliema Wanderers | |||
| Qormi | |||
| Senglea Athletic | |||
| Marsa | |||
| 1994–1998 | Valletta | ||
| 2002–2006 | Sliema Wanderers | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Edward Aquilina (2 September 1945 – 6 June 2021) was a Maltese football player and manager.
His career as a forward was mostly spent in two spells at Sliema Wanderers, winning the Maltese Premier League six times and a further title for Hibernians. He played 12 games for the Malta national team, scoring the winning goal on his debut in 1966.
As a manager, Aquilina won the league, Maltese FA Trophy and Maltese Super Cup in 1996–97 for Valletta, and three consecutive league titles for Sliema Wanderers from 2003 to 2005.
Aquilina began playing in the third division for Melita in 1960–61 before joining Sliema Wanderers.[1] He spent 15 years there over two spells, winning the Maltese Premier League six times and the Maltese FA Trophy three times.[1] In 1967, he played for the Pittsburgh Phantoms in the National Professional Soccer League, scoring four times in ten games.[2]
Aquilina won another league title with Hibernians.[1] In the 1971–72 European Cup first round, back at Sliema Wanderers, he scored once and assisted all three goals of Ronnie Cocks' hat-trick in a 4–0 win against ÍA on 26 September; in 2007, the Times of Malta reflected that Aquilina played "the game of his life".[3] He retired in 1979.[1]