John Clark (soccer player, 1964)

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John Clark (born September 22, 1964 in Edinburgh ) is a former Scottish football player .

Career

Clark was born into the youth of Musselburgh Windsor before joining Dundee United in 1981 . For the club he made his debut as a junior player in the Scottish League Premier Division . Although he helped the club with a few appearances during the 1982/83 season to win the Scottish championship, the number of his games was not enough to win an award. Also in 1984 he was denied a title in the final of the Scottish League Cup , in which he was a substitute, as the Glasgow Rangers prevailed.

In the season 1986/87 Clark achieved the breakthrough and he played 30 season games. While the team placed third in the league behind Rangers and Celtic Glasgow , he moved with the team around Dave Bowman , Kevin Gallacher , Maurice Malpas and Jim McInally in the 1986/87 UEFA Cup after successes over RC Lens , Universitatea Craiova , HNK Hajduk Split entered the quarter-finals against FC Barcelona . There he scored a goal in the second leg at Camp Nou and thus contributed to advancing. After Borussia Mönchengladbach had subsequently been defeated, the team met in the finals against the Swedish representative IFK Göteborg . While Stefan Pettersson scored the decisive goal in the first leg in Sweden for the Gothenburg club's 1-0 win, the Swedes also took the lead in the second leg after a goal by Lennart Nilsson . Clark scored another goal, but it remained in the 1-1 draw and thus second place for the Scottish club.

In 1987, 1988 and 1991 Clark was with Dundee United in the final of the Scottish Cup, each time he had to be content with second place. In the course of time he had transformed from a striker , which he was in the early years of his career, to a defensive player . After almost twelve years of club membership, he left the club for England in February 1994 and joined Stoke City for 150,000 pounds sterling . In the second-rate Football League First Division , he played a half series before returning to Scotland. He played in the highest Scottish league for FC Falkirk and Dunfermline Athletic , before ending his career in 1997 with the lower class Berwick Rangers .

Clark later coached the Gala Fairydean and Whitehill Welfare clubs in Scottish non-league football .

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SURNAME Clark, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Edinburgh , UK