Lawrie Tierney
Lawrence James William "Lawrie" Tierney (born April 4, 1959 in Leith , † December 6, 2011 in Phoenix , Arizona ) was a Scottish football player .
Career
Tierney began playing football at the Salvesen Boys Club , which he left in 1976 for the Heart of Midlothian . In the 1977/78 season he moved up to the competition team and was one of the pillars when the team rose to the Scottish Football League Premier Division after the first relegation from the first class in the club's history in the previous year . There, however, the team could not establish itself and rose again in 1979, at the same time Tierney had no success and after increasingly rare missions he was given to the first division club Hibernian Edinburgh in February 1980 . There he was denied great success as in his next station, when he ran up in the English Fourth Division for Wigan Athletic in the 1980/81 season.
In 1981 Tierney went to the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) and the North American Soccer League (NASL). First he played there until January 1983 for Phoenix Inferno , after the financial collapse of the franchise, he moved to the Golden Bay Earthquakes . In 1983/84 he still played for the newly founded team of the Tacoma Stars in the MISL, nothing is known about his further career after the NASL was dissolved in 1984.
Tierney stayed in the United States permanently after retiring. There he died in Phoenix at the end of 2011 at the age of 52.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tierney, Lawrie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tierney, Lawrence James William |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | scottish soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4th 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leith |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 6, 2011 |
| Place of death | Phoenix , Arizona |