Fishlock and Coleman enter Welsh Sports Hall of Fame
Archive article. Published on Thu 22 Oct, 23:04. Conditions may have changed since this reporting.
Jess Fishlock and Chris Coleman have been inducted into the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame’s Roll of Honour at a Cardiff celebration of the Football Association of Wales’s 150th anniversary. The FAW confirmed the honours on Thursday 22 October. Dual-sport international and broadcaster Nia Jones was also inducted, alongside six players from the Cymru side that reached the quarter-finals of the 1976 European Championship.
The ten football inductees
- 1976 Cymru side
- Dai Davies, Leighton James, Joey Jones, Brian Flynn, Alan Curtis, Mickey Thomas
- Cymru internationals
- Jess Fishlock and Nia Jones
- Referee
- Mervyn “Sandy” Griffiths
- Cymru player and head coach
- Chris Coleman
The football inductees
Dai Davies, Leighton James and Joey Jones received posthumous honours. Brian Flynn, Alan Curtis and Mickey Thomas attended the event at the Parkgate Hotel to receive their awards. Referee Mervyn “Sandy” Griffiths was also inducted posthumously. Coleman’s addition comes ten years after he led Cymru to the semi-finals of Euro 2016. Together with Fishlock and Nia Jones, those names make ten football additions to the Roll of Honour, counted from the FAW announcement.
FAW anniversary recognised
Ian Gwyn Hughes, the FAW’s Head of Public Relations and Culture, received the Peter Corrigan Welsh Sports Media award. FAW President Mike Jones accepted the “Rhodri” award on the association’s behalf. The honour is named after former First Minister and Hall of Fame chairman Rhodri Morgan.