fullname youthclubs years clubs caps goals birth_place position manageryears birth_date managerclubs article_title name
john reilly dundee united 1985 1994 1994 1994 1995 -- 1987 1991 -- 1993 1993 1993 -- dundee forfar athletic albion rovers united motherwell dunfermline athletic east fife cowdenbeath arbroath 58 56 6 9 13 3 1 10 19 12 0 5 0 2 0 1 dundee , scotland striker 1993 -- 1994 21 march 1962 cowdenbeath john reilly -lrb- footballer , born 1962 -rrb-
 john reilly
john reilly -lrb- footballer , born 1962 -rrb-

john reilly -lrb- born 21 march 1962 in dundee -rrb- is a scottish former professional footballer who played as a striker .
reilly began his career with dundee united , signing as a schoolboy from strathtay boys club in 1979 .
played for scotland u ' 17s and u ' 18 's professional youth side before making his 1st team debut in august 1980 .
was a member of the squad that won a premier league winners medal in season 1982/1983 before going onto score the clubs 1st ever goal in the european cup the following season .
signing for motherwell in 1985 , reilly suffered an achilles tendon injury in his 1st game for the club and despite seeing several specialists over the next 18 months was forced into early retirement .
after revolutionary surgery 5 years later however , he was able to continue playing and went on to play a handful of games for a number of scottish lower league clubs , including dunfermline athletic and east fife , while taking on a player/manager role at cowdenbeath f.c. .
after retiring for the second time in the mid-1990s , reilly remains in the game working as a journalist covering lower division football for a national newspaper .
reilly was inducted into dundee uniteds hall of fame in february 2013 .
