David White (football manager)
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | David White | ||
| Date of birth | 23 August 1933 | ||
| Place of birth | Motherwell, Scotland | ||
| Date of death | 17 July 2013 (aged 79) | ||
| Place of death | Wishaw, Scotland | ||
| Playing position | Wing half | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| –1957 | Royal Albert | ||
| 1957–1966 | Clyde | 223 | (42) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1966–1967 | Clyde | ||
| 1967–1969 | Rangers | ||
| 1972–1977 | Dundee | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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David White (23 August 1933 - 17 July 2013) was a Scottish football player and manager. He played as a wing half for Clyde for his whole career, before managing Clyde, Rangers and Dundee.
White was 23 years of age when he joined Clyde from the Junior side Royal Albert. While also working as an engineer, he played more than 300 games for the Bully Wee and became club captain and acted as player-coach.
He was promoted to Clyde manager after the Scottish Football Association appointed his predecessor John Prentice as the Scotland national team manager. After a year managing the Bully Wee (which ended in their highest-ever finish of 3rd place in 1966–67), he was appointed as assistant to Scot Symon at Rangers in summer 1967. When Symon left the club just five months later, White was promoted to manager on 1 November.
His reign was generally unsuccessful and he became the first Rangers manager not to win any major honours whilst in charge at the club. With the expectations of Rangers fans and boardroom high, coupled with the success of Celtic under Jock Stein, the pressure began to build on White. Although he signed Colin Stein and Alex MacDonald who went on to success with the club, a defeat in the European Cup Winners' Cup to Polish team Górnik Zabrze in late 1969 which followed a poor start to the 1969-70 season saw White become the first manager to be sacked in the clubs history.
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