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Gary Speed
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Welsh association football player and manager (1969–2011)
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Gary Andrew Speed was a Welsh association football player and coach from the United Kingdom. Born in Mancot in 1969, he played as a wing half or central midfielder for clubs including Sheffield United F.C., Leeds United F.C., Newcastle United F.C., and Everton F.C. His professional career spanned from 1988 to 2010, during which he competed in the Premier League. He represented Wales in international competition.
Speed also served as a coach, notably for Sheffield United F.C. He was awarded the Member of the Order of the British Empire. He died by suicide in Huntington in 2011.
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Key facts
- 2010
- Sheffield United
- Full name
- Gary Andrew Speed
- Date of birth
- ( 1969-09-08 ) 8 September 1969
- Place of birth
- Mancot, Flintshire , Wales
- Date of death
- 27 November 2011 (2011-11-27) (aged 42)
- Place of death
- Huntington, Cheshire , England
- Height
- 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
- Position
- Midfielder
- 1984 1988
- Leeds United
- Years
- Team
- 1988 1996
- Leeds United
- 1996 1998
- Everton
- 1998 2004
- Newcastle United
- 2004 2008
- Bolton Wanderers
- 2008 2010
- Sheffield United
- 1990 1991
- Wales U21
- 1990 2004
- Wales
- 2010 2011
- Wales
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Position
- Central Midfield
- Nationality
- Wales
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Andrew
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Mancot
- Place of death
- Huntington
- Occupation
- association football coach
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Wales men's national association football team
- Position played
- wing half
- League
- Premier League
- Country for sport
- Wales
- Image
- Gary Speed 2011.jpg
- Height
- 178
Show 11 more facts
- Commons category
- Gary Speed
- date of birth
- 1969-09-08
- date of death
- 2011-11-27
- manner of death
- Suicide
- cause of death
- hanging to death
- name in native language
- Gary Speed
- birth name
- Gary Andrew Speed
- coach of sports team
- Sheffield United F.C.
- start of work period
- 1988-00-00
- end of work period
- 2010-00-00
- P12749
- Norbert Lammert
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Gary Andrew Speed MBE (8 September 1969 – 27 November 2011) was a Welsh professional footballer and manager. As manager of Wales, he was often credited as being the catalyst for the change in fortunes of the national team and as setting the pathway to future successes.
Having played for the Leeds United youth team, Speed began his professional career with the club in 1988. With Leeds, he won the English First Division championship in 1991–92, and later played for Everton, Newcastle United, Bolton Wanderers and Sheffield United. He captained the Wales national football team until retiring from international football in 2004. He was the most capped outfield player for Wales and the second overall with 85 caps between 1990 and 2004 until being overtaken by Chris Gunter in 2018, playing mainly as a left-sided attacking midfielder. Speed was appointed manager of Sheffield United in 2010, but left the club after a few months in December 2010 to manage the Wales national team, remaining in this role until his death 11 months later.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gary Speed” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.