Gordon Strachan
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Biography
Gordon Strachan OBE played for Dundee, Aberdeen, Manchester United, Leeds United and Coventry City.
In club football, he played 635 league games, scoring a total of 138 goals.
He was part of the Aberdeen side that defeated Real Madrid 2–1 to lift the 1983 European Cup Winners' Cup in Gothenburg
Strachan earned 50 caps for Scotland, securing his place in the International Roll of Honour.
He played in two FIFA World Cup final tournaments, Spain '82 and Mexico '86, scoring in a 2-1 defeat to West Germany in June 1986.
He was named as the Football Writers Association Footballer of the Year in 1990/91 season while at Leeds. After two years at Coventry City he retired in 1997, aged 40, setting a Premier League record for an outfield player.
In 2007, Strachan was inducted into the Scottish Football Hall of Fame, and he was named Scotland national coach in January 2013.