Bill McGarry, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Bill McGarry

English footballer

Date of Birth: 10-Jun-1927

Place of Birth: Stoke-on-Trent, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 15-Mar-2005

Profession: association football manager, association football player

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Bill McGarry

  • William Harry McGarry (10 June 1927 – 15 March 2005) was an England international association footballer and manager who spent 40 years in the professional game.
  • He had a reputation for toughness, both as a player and as a manager. A right-half as a player, he joined Port Vale following the end of World War II, and spent the next six years with the club.
  • He then moved on to Huddersfield Town in 1951, where he would spend the next ten years of his career.
  • He was an ever-present as Town won promotion out of the Second Division in 1952–53.
  • He retired in 1963, after spending two years as Bournemouth's player-manager.
  • In all he scored 33 goals in 617 league and cup games in an eighteen-year career in the Football League.
  • After winning one England "B" cap in 1954, he went on to win four senior England caps. He also found success as a manager, moving from Bournemouth to Watford in 1963, he was appointed as Ipswich Town manager the following year.
  • There he led the club to the Second Division championship in 1967–68, before moving on to the vacant position at Wolverhampton Wanderers later in 1968.
  • He spent eight years with "Wolves", leading them to the UEFA Cup final in 1972 and to League Cup glory in 1974.
  • He became an international manager with Saudi Arabia in 1976, only to return to the domestic game with Newcastle United the following year.
  • He failed to find success at Newcastle, and left the club in 1980, before finding work in Zambia with Power Dynamos FC.
  • He spent two months as Wolves manager in 1985, before leaving his management career behind him.
  • After a long battle against illness, he died on 15 March 2005, aged 77.
  • He had one son and one daughter.

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