Ron Lord

{{Short description|Australian soccer player (1929–2024)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2024}}

{{Use Australian English|date=September 2014}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Ron Lord
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| full_name = Ron Brian Lord

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1929|7|25}}

| birth_place = Balmain, New South Wales, Australia

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2024|4|8|1929|7|25}}

| height =

| position = Goalkeeper

| youthyears1 = 1946–

| youthclubs1 = Rozelle

| years1 = 1949

| clubs1 = Drummoyne

| years2 = 1950–1957

| clubs2 = Auburn

| years3 = 1957–1965

| clubs3 = Sydney Prague

| totalcaps = 339

| totalgoals = 0

| nationalyears1 = 1951–1964

| nationalteam1 = Australia

| nationalcaps1 = 10

| nationalgoals1 = 0

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Ron Lord (25 July 1929 – 8 April 2024) was an Australian international soccer player who played as a goalkeeper during the 1950s. He appeared for the host nation in the 1956 Olympic Games staged in Melbourne.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/24000 |title=Ron Lord |work=Olympedia |access-date=1 December 2021}} Lord played well in the defeat of Japan, but Australia was well-defeated by India where Neville D'Souza scored the first and, so far, only hat-trick by an Asian football team in either a FIFA World Cup or Olympic Games tournament.

Lord initially played for Australia in 1951, taking over goalkeeping duties from the well-known Norman Conquest in the Third Test against England played in Brisbane.{{cite news |date=5 July 1951 |title=Soccer fans walk out; drab match |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article248603020 |accessdate=18 April 2024 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |location=New South Wales, Australia |page=23 |via=National Library of Australia |volume=XVI |issue=89}}

Lord died on 8 April 2024, at the age of 94.{{cite web|url=https://www.footballaustralia.com.au/news/vale-ron-lord|title=Vale Ron Lord|publisher=Football Australia|date=9 April 2024}}

Lord was posthumously awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2025 Australia Day Honours for "service to football".{{Cite web |title=The late Mr Ronald Alan LORD |url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/3044919 |access-date=2025-01-26 |website=Australian Honours Search Facility}}