Ron Yeats

Ronald "Ron" Yeats (* November 15, 1937 in Aberdeen, Scotland, nicknamed " The Colossus ") is a former Scottish football player, who was best known as the captain of the Liverpool team of the 1960s.

Career

Before Yeats, was conspicuous by its over 1.90 m height, in 1957 as a professional footballer defender at the then second division club Dundee United, he worked in a slaughterhouse. In 1961 he moved to Liverpool by Bill Shankly trained and reached in his first season at Anfield as captain promotion to England's top league, where the " Reds " the first season ended a notable sixth. In the following season, managed to Yeats and his teammates then the great sensation and were just two years after the rise of English champions 1963/64. Next year Liverpool won the FA Cup with a 2-1 victory over Leeds United, but resigned after a few dubious refereeing decisions from the semi-final of the European Cup against Inter Milan. In 1966, Yeats Liverpool, still as a captain, to a renewed championship, but also lost the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup against Borussia Dortmund. In Germany Yeats is best known for his failed attempt to rescue the 2-1 winning goal by Reinhard Libuda in this same game. After Liverpool in the previous year, was second, Bill Shankly in 1970 Yeats decided along with other Kop legends such as Ian St. John, sort out, to renew and to initiate a process of rejuvenation. After 454 games Yeats left Anfield in 1971, and played on the opposite side of the Mersey for another three years at the Tranmere Rovers, before he was the coach for two years. Thereafter, however, he left Liverpool all to play one more year for the Los Angeles Skyhawks in the North American Soccer League, where he was master promptly.

After the career

1986 Yeats returned to Liverpool as a scout and stepped back from this post until 20 years later, in 2006, back. Yeats was elected in 2006 on the 29th place in the deployed more than 110,000 fans of Liverpool FC list " 100 players who shook the Kop ".