nationalcaps manageryears birth_date currentclub years youthyears caps goals image_size nationalyears image name caption fullname birth_place nationalteam height totalcaps totalgoals nationalgoals youthclubs clubs position managerclubs article_title
1 50 1996 2009 -- 2010 2013 -- -- 2001 2001 -- 2004 2005 -- 2009 9 february 1957 scotland -lrb- manager -rrb- 1971 1989 -- 1995 1995 -- 1997 -- 1974 1977 -- 1984 1984 -- 1989 1971 -- 1974 69 183 160 197 26 13 55 33 37 0 200px 1979 1980 -- 1992 gordon david strachan.jpg gordon strachan strachan as manager of celtic gordon david strachan edinburgh , scotland scotland u-21 scotland 5 6 635 138 0 5 dundee dundee aberdeen manchester united leeds united coventry city midfielder coventry city southampton celtic middlesbrough scotland gordon strachan

gordon strachan

gordon david strachan obe -lrb- born 9 february 1957 -rrb- is a scottish football manager and former player .
strachan is the manager of the scotland national team .
strachan played for dundee , aberdeen , manchester united , leeds united and coventry city , as well as the scotland national team .
he has managed coventry city , southampton , celtic and middlesbrough .
in club football , he played 635 league games , scoring a total of 138 goals , playing 21 of 25 career seasons in either the english or scottish top-flight .
in international football strachan earned 50 caps , scoring five goals and playing in two fifa world cup final tournaments , spain 82 and mexico 86 .
strachan retired from playing in 1997 at age 40 , setting a premier league record for an outfield player .
a right-sided midfielder , strachan made his senior debut in 1974 with dundee before moving on within scotland , to spend seven seasons at aberdeen .
he first played for the scotland national team in 1980 .
while at aberdeen strachan won multiple domestic league and cup honours in the early 1980s , as well as the 1982 -- 83 european cup winners ' cup and 1983 european super cup .
moving to england , strachan won the 1985 fa cup final in five seasons with manchester united , before spending the next seven seasons as club captain at leeds , winning the 1989 -- 90 second division and 1991 -- 92 first division league titles .
he played his last game for scotland in 1992 while still at leeds , and then moved to coventry in 1995 for a final three seasons , as a player-coach .
strachan became full-time manager of coventry when the incumbent ron atkinson was appointed as director of football .
after five years in the job he was sacked in 2001 , when coventry were relegated from the top-flight for the first time in 34 years .
however , he immediately returned to the premier league with southampton and guided the `` saints '' to the 2003 fa cup final -- where they lost 1 -- 0 to arsenal .
strachan resigned from southampton in 2004 and took a 16-month break from management before returning to scotland to become manager of celtic in the scottish premier league .
with celtic he achieved three successive league titles and other domestic cup wins , before resigning in may 2009 after failing to win a fourth title .
five months later he became manager of middlesbrough in the english championship , but left the club after an unsuccessful 12 months in the job .
strachan was named as fwa footballer of the year for the 1990 -- 91 season while at leeds .
he was also named manager of the year in scotland multiple times by writers and players while at celtic .
in 2007 , strachan was inducted into the scottish football hall of fame .
he is the father of craig strachan and gavin strachan , also footballers .
