Sexton Lourdes

{{Short description|Malaysian footballer (born 1931)}}

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| fullname = Sexton Lourdes Doss

| birth_date = 1931

| birth_place = British Malaya

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| position = Goalkeeper

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| years1 = 1953–1962

| clubs1 = Selangor

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Sexton Lourdes (born 1931) is a Malayan footballer who played for Selangor and the Malaya national team as a goalkeeper.{{cite news|url=http://malaysiafootballmuseum.blogspot.com/2017/09/in-malaya-cup-1961-selangor-and-perak.html?m=1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221103100042/http://malaysiafootballmuseum.blogspot.com/2017/09/in-malaya-cup-1961-selangor-and-perak.html?m=1|url-status=usurped|archive-date=3 November 2022|title=The Malaya Cup 1961|date=15 September 2017|publisher=Malaysia Football Museum|accessdate=3 November 2022}}{{cite news|url=https://www.malaysianbar.org.my/article/news/legal-and-general-news/general-news/glory-days-of-sports|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200925230155/https://www.malaysianbar.org.my/article/news/legal-and-general-news/general-news/glory-days-of-sports|url-status=usurped|archive-date=25 September 2020|title=Glory days of sports|date=31 August 2007|publisher=Malaysiabar.org.my|accessdate=3 November 2022}}

Career overview

Sexton began his career with Selangor FA in 1953 and retired in 1963.[https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19630220-1.2.141?ST=1&AT=search&k=sexton%20lourdes&QT=sexton,lourdes&oref=article Lourdes quits. The Straits Times. 20 February 1963, Page 17 - National Library of Singapore]

Sexton was a part of the Malaya national team that played in the inaugural Pestabola Merdeka 1957.[https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19570812-1.2.143?ST=1&AT=search&k=sexton%20lourdes&QT=sexton,lourdes&oref=article FAM NAMES 20 FOR MERDEKA GAMES SOCCER . The Straits Times. 12 August 1957, Page 12 - National Library of Singapore] He also was a squad player for Malaya that captured the 1958, 1959 and 1960 Merdeka Tournament editions.{{cite web |title=Merdeka Tournament (Malaysia)|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesm/merdeka.html|publisher=Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation|access-date=1 February 2022}}

On 3 September 1962, he was a part of the Malaya team that won bronze medals in the 1962 Asian Games.[https://www.rsssf.org/tablesa/asgames62.html "Asian Games 1962 (Indonesia)"]. Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 30 March 2021. {{cite news|url=https://malaysiafootball-dimos.blogspot.com/2020/09/bolasepak-sukan-asia-1962.html?m=1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221103104841/https://malaysiafootball-dimos.blogspot.com/2020/09/bolasepak-sukan-asia-1962.html?m=1|url-status=usurped|archive-date=3 November 2022|title=Bolasepak Sukan Asia 1962|lang=malay|date=30 September 2020|publisher=Malaysia Dimos|accessdate=3 November 2022}}

Honours

;Selangor

;Malaya

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