John Toshack
Coaching Macedonia in 2011
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | John Benjamin Toshack | ||
| Date of birth | 22 March 1949 | ||
| Place of birth | Cardiff, Wales | ||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Unattached | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1965–1970 | Cardiff City | 162 | (74) |
| 1970–1978 | Liverpool | 246 | (96) |
| 1978–1984 | Swansea City | 63 | (25) |
| Total | 471 | (195) | |
| National team | |||
| 1968–1969 | Wales Under-23 | 4 | (0) |
| 1969–1980 | Wales | 40 | (13) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1978–1983 | Swansea City Player/Manager | ||
| 1984–1985 | Sporting CP | ||
| 1985–1989 | Real Sociedad | ||
| 1989–1990 | Real Madrid | ||
| 1991–1994 | Real Sociedad | ||
| 1994 | Wales | ||
| 1995–1997 | Deportivo | ||
| 1997–1999 | Beşiktaş | ||
| 1999 | Real Madrid | ||
| 2000–2001 | Saint-Étienne | ||
| 2001–2002 | Real Sociedad | ||
| 2002–2003 | Catania | ||
| 2004 | Real Murcia | ||
| 2004–2010 | Wales | ||
| 2011–2012 | Macedonia | ||
| 2013 | Khazar Lankaran | ||
| 2014–2016 | Wydad Casablanca | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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John Benjamin Toshack MBE (born 22 March 1949) is a Welsh former footballer and football manager who most recently managed Wydad Casablanca. He has also managed several others clubs including Swansea City, who he took from the Fourth Division to the First in four seasons, and two spells with Real Madrid.
As a player, he is remembered for being part of the Liverpool side of the 1970s, where he formed a forward partnership with Kevin Keegan.
Toshack was born in 1949 in Cardiff, Wales, to a Scottish father and Welsh mother. He attended Canton High School for Boys in Canton, Cardiff.
Toshack started his footballing career with Cardiff City, signing for them as a 16-year-old. He became the youngest ever player to play in a league match for the club when he came off the bench to make a goalscoring debut during a 3–1 win over Leyton Orient on 13 November 1965 at the age of 16 years and 236 days old, a record which stood for 41 years until it was broken by Aaron Ramsey in 2007. Establishing himself in the side over the next few years, scoring his first hat-trick in January 1968 in an 8–0 win over Ebbw Vale in the Welsh Cup, he went on to form one of the most lethal strike partnerships in the club's history alongside Brian Clark.
After four years at Cardiff City, Toshack was signed by Bill Shankly for Liverpool on 11 November 1970. Already a full international, Shankly paid £110,000 for the striker. Toshack made his debut 3 days later on the 14th in the goalless league draw with Coventry City at Anfield. His first goal came a week later on the 21st in a remarkable Merseyside derby at Anfield. With the game 0–0 at half-time Everton thundered into a 2–0 lead just after the start of the second half. 69 minutes in Steve Heighway scored from an acute angle on the left at the Kop end. Toshack's headed goal from a Heighway cross in the 76th minute completely turned the game around; then Chris Lawler volleyed home, after Toshack had headed on an Alec Lindsay cross, for the 84th-minute winner.
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