"McNeill"

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William "Billy" McNeill (2 March 1940, Bellshill - 22 April 2019, Newton Mearns), Scottish footballer and technical director. During the football career, Celtic jersey dressed and played a role in the Champions Clubs Cup championship in 1967.

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Club career Home
McNeill, also known as a bold nickname, worn forma in Celtic during his professional football career in 1957. In total, by the team fans of Scotland, which played for 18 seasons, in 2002, the club’s history is among the best players. During the time played nine Scotland League, seven Scottish Cup and six Scottish League Cup, together with the championships of Champions Clubs in 1967. McNeill, who left football in 1975, worn forma in 90 minutes of all matches played under Celtic jersey, wearing 789 times in total.

National team career Home
In April 15, 1961 in the first match with Scotland jersey, McNeill, which came across the UK; in total 29 times the national forum. 13 October 1965 played with Poland and recorded the first goal in the national team in the 2-1 lost match. On May 3, 1969, played and played on May 17, 1969 with 5-3 wins Wales and reached 3 gole in total with the goals scored in the matches of the Republic of Cyprus, which earned 8-0.

Technical Director career Home
McNeill started his technical directorship career at Clyde in April 1977. After the first experience that lasted short, Aberdeen in June of the same year. In 1978, he agreed with Celtic that he spent all his footballer career. At the beginning of Celtic, three leagues in the five years have achieved a Scottish Cup and a league trophy championships. On June 30, 1983, UK teams started to serve in Manchester City.

In 1986, the Aston Villa was separated from City. The Villa was completed in the last row and then sent from the team in May 1987 and met Graham Taylor. McNeill started to serve as a re Celtic technical director. In the 1987-88 season, the club’s organization’s organization’s second year, the team had both leagues and trophies. In the next season, the champion of Scotland Cup was achieved, while McNeill in 1991, the four-year task period was left from the team.

Since 1991, McNeill, who had a heart surgery in this process, returned to football in Hibernian in 1998. The same year, the technical director Jim Duffy, followed by the end of the 1997-98 season, if he runs the team temporarily, he eventually left with the club.

After football
In 2008, the support given to football and the efforts in Scotland for the development of sports were evaluated by Glasgow University.

Statistics Home

* There are 3 games played on the Sermon Mug.
† The coast contains 1 glude thrown in the Mug.

Successes

As Player

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Scottish Premier League: 1965-66, 1966-67, 1967-68, 1968-69, 1969-70, 1970-71, 1971-72, 1972-73,