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Neil Young

1944 - 2011

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Neil James Young (17 February 1944 – 3 February 2011) was an English footballer who made more than 400 appearances in the Football League playing as a striker for Manchester City, Preston North End and Rochdale. In total, Young scored 86 goals from 334 League games for Manchester City, scored the only goal in the 1969 FA Cup Final, and scored as City won the 1970 European Cup Winners' Cup Final. Transferred to Preston North End for £48,000 during the 1971–72 season, he made 68 League appearances and scored 18 goals for the Deepdale club before finishing his senior career with Rochdale, where he spent the 1974–75 season. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Neil Young is the 1,778th most popular soccer player (up from 6,597th in 2019), the 2,940th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,823rd in 2019) and the 117th most popular British Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Neil Young ranks 1,778 out of 21,273. Before him are István Avar, Theo Hernandez, Masaru Uchiyama, Evaristo de Macedo, Taisuke Hiramoto, and Jean Nicolas. After him are Xherdan Shaqiri, Roberto Emílio da Cunha, Choi Chung-min, Freddy Rincón, René Llense, and Eduard Markarov.

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Among people born in 1944, Neil Young ranks 385. Before him are Jon E. Ahlquist, Gladys Knight, Harvey Postlethwaite, Alain Souchon, Karel Kryl, and Sulochana Gadgil. After him are Raewyn Connell, Alexei Lubimov, Berta Ambrož, Swoosie Kurtz, Günter Verheugen, and José Wilker. Among people deceased in 2011, Neil Young ranks 209. Before him are John Neville, Ricky Hui, Erhard Loretan, Loriot, Vang Pao, and Arnošt Lustig. After him are George Shearing, Ricky Bruch, Jiří Dienstbier, John Paul Getty III, Patrick Leigh Fermor, and Juan Arza.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Neil Young ranks 2,941 out of 8,785. Before him are Richard Bright (1789), Frank Watson Dyson (1868), John Ainsworth-Davis (1895), Max Horton (1883), Galyani Vadhana (1923), and Lottie Dod (1871). After him are John Barnard (1946), Mary Sidney (1561), Charles Burney (1726), Ray Lankester (1847), Leslie Stephen (1832), and John Rutter (1945).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Neil Young ranks 117. Before him are Dennis Viollet (1933), Pat Jennings (1945), Mark Jones (1933), Tom Finney (1922), Gary Stevens (1963), and Fergus Suter (1857). After him are David Johnson (1951), Martin Peters (1943), Eddie Gray (1948), Paul Cook (1956), Jamie Carragher (1978), and Danny Murphy (1977).

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