- Graham Leggat
Infobox Football biography
playername = Graham Leggat
fullname =
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1934|6|23
cityofbirth =Aberdeen
countryofbirth =Scotland
dateofdeath =
cityofdeath =
countryofdeath =
height =
position = Right winger
| youthyears =
youthclubs = Banks o'Dee
years = 1953–1958
1958–1966
1966–1967
1968
1970
1971
clubs = Aberdeen
Fulham
Birmingham City
Rotherham United
Bromsgrove RoversToronto Metros
caps(goals) = 109 0(64)
254 (127)
011 00(2)
nationalyears = 1956–1960
nationalteam = Scotland
nationalcaps(goals) = 018 00(8)Graham Leggat (born
June 23 1934 ) is a former Scottish internationalfootball player.Born in
Aberdeen , Leggat started his career at Aberdeen as a right winger. He was part of the Aberdeen team that won the Scottish league title in 1954-55 and the 1955-56Scottish League Cup . He was transferred to Fulham in 1958 for £16,000, where he formed a right flank partnership with England captainJohnny Haynes . He wound down his career with short spells at Birmingham, Rotherham and Bromsgrove Rovers and was also briefly a coach at Aston Villa.Graham is the scorer of the fastest ever English league hat-trick. He scored this on
26 December 1963 for Fulham in three minutes against Ipswich Town in a 10-1 win, a club record.Leggat was selected in the Scotland squad for the
1958 FIFA World Cup inSweden , playing in the Scots' matches against Yugoslavia and Paraguay. In total he earned 18 full caps between 1956 and 1960.In 1971 Leggatt emigrated to
Canada , where he began a second career as an analyst on soccer telecasts for the CBC at the1976 Summer Olympics and at the World Cup. He later became host of TSN's popular "Soccer Saturday" program as well as an on-air analyst on its soccer telecasts. He was inducted into theCanadian Soccer Hall of Fame in 2001 as a 'builder'.International goals
:"Scores and results list Scotland's goal tally first."
Bibliography
*cite book| first=Harry | last=Reid | title=The Final Whistle?| publisher=Birlinn| year=2005| id=1-84158-362-6
External links
*SFA Profile|id=113350
* [http://www.thesoccerhalloffame.ca/OSN.nsf/c1bfa845a2dec3bf85256b0b005d4116/7e1ceba3d54c7dd685256b0c00731a18?OpenDocument Profile] at Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame
* [http://www.londonhearts.com/scotland/players/grahamleggat.html International appearances] at londonhearts.com Scotland section
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