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Alex McLeish
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Scottish association football player and manager
Key facts
- 1976
- → Lewis United
- 2007
- Scotland
- 2016
- Zamalek
- Full name
- Alexander McLeish
- Date of birth
- ( 1959-01-21 ) 21 January 1959 (age 67)
- Place of birth
- Glasgow , Scotland
- Height
- 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
- Position
- Defender
- 1976 1978
- Aberdeen
- Years
- Team
- 1978 1994
- Aberdeen
- 1994 1995
- Motherwell
- 1978 1987
- Scotland U21
- 1980 1993
- Scotland
- 1994 1998
- Motherwell
- 1998 2001
- Hibernian
- 2001 2006
- Rangers
- 2007 2011
- Birmingham City
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alex
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Glasgow
- Occupation
- association football coach
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- 1982 FIFA World Cup
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Scotland men's national football team
- Position played
- centre-back
- Country for sport
- Scotland
- Image
- Alexmcleish2012.jpg
- Height
- 185
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- Commons category
- Alex McLeish
- date of birth
- 1959-01-21
- coach of sports team
- Motherwell F.C.
- birth name
- Alexander McLeish
- name in native language
- Alex McLeish
- number of matches played/races/starts
- 2
- total goals in career
- 0
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Encyclopedic overview
Alexander McLeish OBE (born 21 January 1959) is a Scottish professional football manager and former player. He played as a defender for Aberdeen during their 1980s glory years, making nearly 500 League appearances for the club, and won 77 caps for Scotland.
McLeish started his managerial career with spells at Motherwell and Hibernian, before guiding Rangers to two championships and five cup wins in five years. McLeish spent ten months as manager of the Scotland national team which narrowly failed to qualify for the finals of the 2008 UEFA European championship. He then resigned this post in November 2007 to become manager of Birmingham City, who were in the Premier League at the time. Though Birmingham were relegated at the end of the season, McLeish guided them back to the Premier League in 2009. Birmingham then won the 2011 Football League Cup Final, but were relegated again from the Premier League at the end of the 2010–11 season.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alex McLeish” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.