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Gordon David Strachan OBE is a Scottish former football coach and player who is currently Technical Director of Dundee.
In this comprehensive and fascinating biography, Leo Moynihan looks at the tenacity of Strachan as a player, determined to prove his old mentor wrong when.
1977 Joins Aberdeen for £50,000.

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Gordon Strachan

Scottish football coach and former player

This article is about the football manager and former player. For other people, see Gordon Strachan (disambiguation).

Gordon David StrachanOBE ( born 9 February 1957) is a Scottish former football coach and player who is currently Technical Director of Dundee. He played for Dundee, Aberdeen, Manchester United, Leeds United and Coventry City, as well as the Scotland national team. He has since managed Coventry City, Southampton, Celtic, Middlesbrough and Scotland.

In club football, Strachan played 635 league games, scoring a total of 138 goals, playing 21 of 25 career seasons in either the English or Scottish top-flight. In international football Strachan earned 50 caps, scoring five goals and played in two FIFA World Cup final tournaments, Spain 82 and Mexico 86. Strachan retired from playing in 1997 at age 40, setting a Premier League record for an outfield player.

A right-sided midfielder, Strachan made his senior debut in 1974 with Dundee before moving on within Scotland, to spend seven seasons at Aberdeen. He

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Personal

Fullname: Gordon David Strachan
aka: Gordon Strachan, WGS (Wee Gordon Strachan)
Height: 5.06
Weight: 10.06
Born: 9 Feb 1957
Birthplace: Muirhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland
Position (as a player): RHS Midfielder (attacking)
Internationals (as a player): Scotland
International Caps (as a player): 50 caps
International Goals (as a player): 5 goals
Manager: 1 June 2005 – 25 May 2009
Succeeding: Martin O’Neill
Successor: Tony Mowbray

“I don’t know if there is another big club where the supporters have a love like the supporters have a love for this club.”
WGS on the Celtic fans (quote taken from “Celtic Minded 2” (book), 2006)

Player

During his playing career he played for

Dundee (1974-1977),
Aberdeen (1977-1984),
Manchester United (1984-1989),
Leeds United (1989-1995) and
Coventry City (1995-1997).

He won 50 international caps for Scotland and is in the Scotland Football Hall of Fame.

Gordon Strachan was an aggressive, skilful right-sided midfield play

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Gordon Strachan’s calm can help Scotland to symbolic win over England

The Scotland manager is excellent at deflecting pressure from his players, but he also knows more than anyone what a Wembley victory would mean

10 November ~ With 57 England caps and two domestic cup finals as a player, Gareth Southgate has more Wembley experience than his counterpart in Friday’s Group F World Cup qualifier. But Scotland manager Gordon Strachan also played at Wembley; not for Aston Villa or Middlesbrough but for the ten-man Manchester United, who beat champions Everton in the 1985 FA Cup final. Only if Southgate had managed Manchester United could he match the experience Strachan takes into what could be either man’s final match in charge of their country.

Strachan has managed and played for Scotland against England at Wembley and even led Southampton to the FA Cup final in 2003, when Wembley temporarily moved to Cardiff. But in April 2008 a home defeat by ten-man Motherwell left his Celtic side six points behind Rangers in the Scottish Premier League.

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