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Don Revie

1927 - 1989

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Donald George Revie (10 July 1927 – 26 May 1989) was an English footballer and manager. He is best known for managing Leeds United from 1961 until 1974, winning the Football League First Division twice and the FA Cup once, before being the England national football team manager for three years. A forward, he began his career with Leicester City in August 1944, before a £19,000 move to Hull City in November 1949. He was sold on to Manchester City in October 1951 for a fee of £25,000, where he became the main focus of the "Revie Plan" which saw him named as FWA Footballer of the Year in the 1954–55 season, after innovating the role of the first deep-lying centre forward in England. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Don Revie is the 2,863rd most popular soccer player (down from 1,849th in 2019), the 3,736th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,759th in 2019) and the 176th most popular British Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Don Revie ranks 2,863 out of 21,273. Before him are Kimiko Shiratori, César Espinoza, Ángel Cabrera, Masahiro Akimoto, Osvaldo Fattori, and Alexander Sørloth. After him are Noronha, Fred Rutten, Eijun Kiyokumo, István Géczi, Bernardo Fernandes da Silva, and Dražen Ladić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Don Revie ranks 316. Before him are Endel Tulving, Clint Walker, Shoji Nishio, Joan Feynman, Dick Savitt, and Heinz Wewers. After him are Boris Shilkov, Corín Tellado, Robert Alt, Håkon Brusveen, Ernesto Formenti, and Kurt Svensson. Among people deceased in 1989, Don Revie ranks 209. Before him are Mary McCarthy, Alfredo Zitarrosa, Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Ján Cikker, László Papp, and Ernst Andersson. After him are Willibald Kreß, Jean Despeaux, Willi Horn, Ernesto Formenti, Roy Eldridge, and Elizabeth Becker-Pinkston.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Don Revie ranks 3,737 out of 8,785. Before him are John Polkinghorne (1930), Joe Abercrombie (1974), Nigel Terry (1945), Billy McNeill (1940), Jack McConnell (1960), and Lucy Walter (1630). After him are Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland (1341), Derek Bell (1941), Jennifer Saunders (1958), Jonny Greenwood (1971), Thomas Middleton (1580), and Arthur Bliss (1891).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Don Revie ranks 176. Before him are Peter Bonetti (1941), Jimmy Johnstone (1944), Steve Bloomer (1874), Vic Buckingham (1915), Joe Gomez (1997), and Billy McNeill (1940). After him are Peter McParland (1934), Tommy Banks (1929), Ashley Williams (1984), Willie Waddell (1921), Jim Bellamy (1881), and Giuseppe Wilson (1945).

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