Alex Scott (soccer player, 1936)

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Alex Scott
Personnel
Surname Alexander Silcock Scott
birthday November 22, 1936
place of birth Falkirk ,  Scotland
date of death September 12, 2001
Place of death Falkirk ,  Scotland
position Right winger
Juniors
Years station
Bo'ness United
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1954-1963 Glasgow Rangers 216 (57)
1963-1967 Everton FC 149 (23)
1967-1969 Hibernian Edinburgh 40 ( 02)
1969-1972 FC Falkirk 22 ( 02)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1958 Scotland U-23 1 ( 00)
1956-1966 Scotland 16 ( 05)
1 Only league games are given.

Alexander Silcock "Alex" Scott (born November 22, 1936 in Falkirk ; † September 12, 2001 ibid) was a Scottish football player . As a right winger , he won the Scottish Championship four times with the Glasgow Rangers ( 1956 , 1957 , 1959 , 1961 ) and in the early 1960s once the FA Cup and twice the League Cup . The move to Everton FC followed in early 1963 . There he won the English championship title in the same year and the cup three years later .

Athletic career

Scott joined the Glasgow Rangers in 1954 at the age of 17 and made his debut on March 9, 1955 against the club from his hometown FC Falkirk around a year later . He immediately succeeded in a hat-trick at 4-1 and subsequently established himself in the right wing position as the successor to Willie Waddell , who had previously been there for many years. In a total of eight years in the Rangers first team, Scott scored 108 goals in 331 competitive games and won the Scottish Championship four times ( 1956 , 1957 , 1959 and 1961 ). He was also extremely successful in games in the European Cup, which was still in its early stages. First he met in the national championship round 1959/60 against teams like RSC Anderlecht on the way to the semi-finals, which in turn was lost to Eintracht Frankfurt . The following year he reached the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup with Glasgow and scored the only goal of his team against Fiorentina , although Florence won the encounter after two games with 4-1 goals. His yield of twelve European goals for the Glasgow Rangers only surpassed Ally McCoist in 1997. Scott was one of a generation of wingers who were played on the sideline and who sprinted opposing full-backs into one-on-one duels. His strengths, which lay in speed and athleticism, came into play. Not only did he prepare a number of goals, but he was also more dangerous than average for the Rangers. When Scott signaled in early 1963 that he wanted to move to England, the top clubs there began to compete. At first, Tottenham Hotspur seemed to make the race, but in the end Harry Catterick of Everton convinced him to move to Liverpool for a transfer fee of £ 40,000. After his departure from Glasgow, another player on the right wing position, Willie Henderson, developed into a "legend" in the club, just as Waddell had been before Scott.

Everton was on the way to the English league title in the 1962/63 season and Scott immediately found his regular place on the right wing in February 1963, where he replaced the aging Billy Bingham . Shortly before, Everton had stalled in the championship race, in which the "Spurs" were involved, and the reinforcement on the right-hand side paid off. "Chico", as Scott was called because of his dark complexion and thus somewhat Mexican appearance (another nickname was "head waiter", as he often moved with a stiff arm), contributed 17 appearances and four goals to the league title . In contrast to the Rangers, Scott was less of a goalscorer in Everton; rather, he provided the face-offs and crosses from which center strikers like Alex Young , Roy Vernon or Derek Temple benefited. Almost three years later he won the English Cup with the "Toffees" after Sheffield Wednesday was defeated 3-2 in the final after falling 2-0 down. Then his zenith was exceeded and after a final season in 1966/67 he returned to his Scottish homeland.

For £ 15,000 he was hired by Hibernian Edinburgh . He spent two years there before ending his active career with FC Falkirk in his hometown in the early 1970s. After the end of his career, he ran a business with his brother Jim , who had also been a professional footballer. In September 2001 he died of complications from cancer.

Scottish national team

Scott made his debut on November 6, 1956 as a 19-year-old in the Scottish senior team and scored the only goal in the duel against Northern Ireland . He took part in the World Cup finals in Sweden for almost two years, but was not used there because players like Graham Leggat were preferred to him. The breakthrough in the Scottish selection was denied to him in the following years and in just under ten years he completed only 16 games in which he scored five goals. In the mid-1960s, Jimmy Johnstone from local rivals Celtic , Charlie Cooke from Chelsea FC and Willie Henderson from Rangers emerged as new alternatives on the right wing and so his appearance on June 25, 1966 against the then reigning world champions Brazil was the latest. The game as part of the Brazilian preparation for the 1966 World Cup in England ended with a 1-1 respectable success for the "Bravehearts".

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Individual references / comments

  1. ↑ Scotland U23 player Alex Scott (fitbstats)
  2. ^ Ivan Ponting: Everton Player by Player . Hamlyn, London 1998, ISBN 0-600-59581-1 , pp. 41 .
  3. ^ Dean P. Hayes: Scotland! Scotland! The Complete Who's Who of Players since 1946. Sutton Publishing, Edinburgh 2006, ISBN 0-600-59581-1 , pp. 95 f .
  4. ^ The finals took place at the end of October in 1960 and 1961.
personal data
SURNAME Scott, Alex
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scott, Alexander Silcock (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Falkirk
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 2001
Place of death Falkirk