Clyde Best

Gebundenes Buch

The Acid Test

The Autobiography of Clyde Best

Beschreibung

An autobiography from the pioneering centre forward footballer, who played for West Ham Utd in the 1960s and 1970s, and also had a later career in the USA. Originally from Bermuda, he also describes the discrimination he faced in British football.

Autor

Clyde Best MBE was born in Bermuda in 1951. Described by Ron Greenwood, as 'the best 17 year-old I have ever seen', the centre forward was signed by the West Ham as a teenager and spent eight years at Upton Park. He developed a reputation as a powerful, bustling centre-forward attracting widespread respect for defying the racism endemic in English football at the time. In 186 games for West Ham he scored 47 goals before embarking on a successful playing career in the United States. In the 1990s he worked as a coach, also managing the Bermudan national team. Best was inducted into the Bermuda National Sports Hall of Fame in 2004. He was awarded an MBE in the January 2006 New Year's Honours list for services to football and the community in Bermuda.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Decoubertin Books
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781909245365
• ISBN-10: 1909245364
• Artikelnr.: 44746298