Everything about Willie Waddell totally explained
William Waddell (
7 March,
1921 in
Forth –
1992) was a professional
football player and manager.
As a player, Waddell only played for boyhood heroes
Rangers. He made his debut at the tender age of 17 and went on to win five
League titles, four
Scottish Cups and 17
caps for
Scotland.
After such a fine playing career, on retirement in 1956 he set out to build the same reputation as a manager and took
Kilmarnock to their only League Championship win to date in
1964–65. On leaving Kilmarnock in 1965 he traded the football world for journalism, becoming a sportswriter on
The Scottish Daily Express. However, in 1969 he returned to football and Rangers, this time as manager following the sacking of
David White. Despite not winning any League Championships he won the
Scottish League Cup in
1971, ending a six-year hoodoo without a trophy at a time in which
Celtic dominated Scottish football.
His greatest achievement, however, was in
1972 when he led Rangers to a
Cup Winners' Cup win beating
Dynamo Moscow 3–2 in the final in
Barcelona. This was all the more impressive because it came just one year after the
Ibrox disaster where 66 Rangers fans lost their lives. After the disaster Waddell vowed this would never happen again and spearheaded the building the
Ibrox Stadium as it's today.
After the Cup Winners' Cup win in 1972 he handed the reins to assistant
Jock Wallace, Jr. and went on to serve the club in
Managing director,
General manager and
Vice chairman roles until his death in 1992.
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