Ian Moir (soccer player)

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Ian Moir
Personnel
birthday June 30, 1943
place of birth Aberdeen ,  Scotland
date of death March 26, 2015
Place of death Cheshire ,  England
position Winger
Juniors
Years station
Manchester United
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1960-1965 Manchester United 45 0(5)
1965-1967 Blackpool FC 61 (12)
1967-1968 Chester FC 25 0(3)
1968-1972 Wrexham AFC 150 (20)
1972-1973 Shrewsbury Town 25 0(2)
1973-1975 Wrexham AFC 15 0(0)
1975 Arcadia Shepherds
Oswestry Town
Colwyn Bay
1 Only league games are given.

Ian Moir (born June 30, 1943 in Aberdeen , † March 26, 2015 in Cheshire ) was a Scottish football player . As a winger , he was part of the extended Manchester United squad at the beginning of the 1960s, but without being able to step out of the shadows of his teammates. After moving to league rivals FC Blackpool , he found his sporting luck especially with the lower class AFC Wrexham , for which he was active for more than six years.

Athletic career

Moir was one of the so-called "Busby Babes" and as a young talent he was equipped as a nimble winger with good technique on both feet. In the 1960/61 season he completed eight league games and after he continued to be used sporadically in the following two seasons, he had achieved a certain regularity in the 1963/64 season with 18 championship games and three goals. In that year, however, in September 1963, his sporting prospects were already significantly restricted, as he had to pass in the game against West Bromwich Albion due to an injury and thereby the 17-year-old George Best made his debut. Moir fell back quickly in the pecking order of coach Matt Busby and after only one league use in the championship season 1964/65 , he moved to First Division rivals FC Blackpool before the end of the season in February 1965 .

Immediately after arriving in Blackpool, he became a regular and successor to Leslie Lea . After his debut against Leicester City on the left, he constantly changed sides in the following games and he harmonized particularly well with the eventual world champion Alan Ball . Unlike his achievements in Manchester, Moir was now able to use his potential frequently and in the relegation battle he developed into a key player. When Blackpool finally had to go into the second division as bottom of the table in 1967 , Moir fell victim to the rebuilding of coach Stan Mortensen and in May 1967 he moved on to fourth division FC Chester .

Until the end of his career in English professional football, Moir remained active in the lower classes, and after only a few months in Chester, he moved to AFC Wrexham in January 1968 . In Wrexham he stayed for more than four years, realized with the club in 1970 promotion to the third division and then went to league rivals Shrewsbury Town in March 1972 . At the end of the 1972/73 season he returned to Wrexham and let his professional career slowly expire at the Welsh club in English league football in 1975. A short time later he moved to South Africa, where he played for the Arcadia Shepherds . The last known career stations were then back in Wales Oswestry Town and Colwyn Bay .

After retiring , Moir worked for BNFL in Capenhurst and settled in the Chester area. He stayed in football in the amateur field as a coach of a club in Tarvin. At the age of 71, Moir succumbed to cancer.

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Individual references / footnotes

  1. ^ Calley, Roy (2011). Blackpool: The Complete Record, 195–19 . Breedon Books Sport.
  2. ^ Ponting, Ivan: Manchester United Player by Player . Hamlyn, London 1998, ISBN 0-600-59496-3 , pp. 81 .
  3. ^ "Tributes flow from Blues fans as former Chester FC player Ian Moir passes away" (The Chester Chronicle)
personal data
SURNAME Moir, Ian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Aberdeen , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 2015
Place of death Cheshire , England