Title winner with Leeds Unitedpublished at 11:36 GMT
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Steve Duffy
BBC Wales
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Terry Yorath had a long association with the city of Leeds, after signing as a schoolboy for Leeds United at 15.
He turned
professional two years later and made his debut in an end of season defeat at
Burnley in May 1968.
Yorath struggled to get into the first team, as Don Revie’s side featured established stars Johnny Giles and Billy Bremner.
But the hard-tackling and combative Yorath was in the Revie mould and he would eventually get his chance, and it would be worth the wait.
Although he wasn’t in the Wembley squad when Leeds won the FA Cup in 1972, he was a substitute when they lost to Sunderland the following year.
Yorath also picked up a runners-up medal in the European Cup Winners Cup final that
same year.
But he became a regular in the season that Leeds won the
First Division title in 1974, then became the first Welshman to play in a
European Cup final (1975), in a controversial defeat to Bayern Munich.
Yorath left Leeds in 1976 after 198 appearances for the club and
became captain at Coventry City after a £125,000 move.
He also played for Spurs, Vancouver Whitecaps and Bradford
City, taking total club appearances to 343. He also scored 16 goals.