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Willie Waddell

1921 - 1992

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William Waddell (7 March 1921 – 14 October 1992) was a professional football player and manager. His only club in a 16-year career as a player in the outside right position (interrupted by World War II) was Rangers which yielded six major winner's medals, and he also played 18 times for Scotland. Waddell also managed Rangers – leading them to their only continental trophy in the 1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final – and served as a director of the Glasgow club, after a spell in charge of Kilmarnock which culminated in their only Scottish league title in 1964–65, followed by some years working as a sports journalist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Willie Waddell is the 2,948th most popular soccer player (up from 10,669th in 2019), the 3,792nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 6,972nd in 2019) and the 180th most popular British Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Willie Waddell ranks 2,948 out of 21,273Before him are Zoltán Beke, Tetsu Yamato, Osvaldo Héctor Cruz, Božo Broketa, Aleksandar Petaković, and Ashley Williams. After him are Victor Mees, Benito Lorenzi, Sayuri Yamaguchi, Koji Okamoto, László Kiss, and Kenji Sakaguchi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Willie Waddell ranks 310Before him are David Gale, Wu Xueqian, Nando González, Henri Alleg, Michel Boisrond, and William Roth. After him are Kamal Hassan Ali, George Nader, Beatrice Mintz, Manny Ayulo, Sotiria Bellou, and Joe Sutter. Among people deceased in 1992, Willie Waddell ranks 196Before him are Mordecai Ardon, Georges Beuchat, Ion Bogdan, Allan Bloom, Irmã Dulce, and James Van Fleet. After him are Vincent Gardenia, Kenneth MacMillan, Sandy Dennis, Tibor Kemény, Severino Rigoni, and Ferdinand Adams.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Willie Waddell ranks 3,793 out of 8,785Before him are Richard Madden (1986), Jack Goody (1919), John Hartley (1849), Seán Lester (1888), William Frederick Denning (1848), and Ashley Williams (1984). After him are Taylor Caldwell (1900), Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe (1726), Andrew Davis (1944), Marie Spartali Stillman (1844), Richard O'Brien (1942), and Trevor Bolder (1950).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Willie Waddell ranks 180Before him are Joe Gomez (1997), Billy McNeill (1940), Don Revie (1927), Peter McParland (1934), Tommy Banks (1929), and Ashley Williams (1984). After him are Jim Bellamy (1881), Giuseppe Wilson (1945), Phil Neal (1951), John Collins (1968), Peter Withe (1951), and Michael Carrick (1981).