Gordon Harold Jago (born October 22, 1932 in London ) is an English football player and football coach.
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| Full name | Gordon Harold Jago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | October 22, 1932 (86 years old) London england | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Citizenship |  England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | defender | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Biography
Jago was born in Poplare, London, and began his career in the England Football League with the Charlton Athletic , which he joined in the 1954/55 season, moving there from the amateur Dalich Hamlet . He played a total of 147 matches, scoring one goal at Valley . His last season with the club was 1961/62, after which he returned to amateur football, becoming the coach of Eastbourne United.
In 1967, he was appointed coach of the Baltimore Bays North American Football Club. After two years with the club, Jago was appointed coach of the US national team , but was fired after losing both of his first matches. In 1970, Jago joined the Queens Park Rangers coaching staff and led the club in January 1971. He signed future key CRC players: Stan Bowles , Don Givens , Dave Thomas and Frank McClintock - and led the club to a promotion to the First Division in the 1972/73 season. Jago left the club in October 1974. In the 1975/76 season, the team whose backbone Jago created was the silver medalist of the championship, one point behind Liverpool . Jago himself was appointed coach of Millwall , where he remained until 1977. In 1976, Jago brought Millwall out of the third division into the second.
He returned to North America , where he coached the NASL club Tampa Bay Raudis for four years. He achieved great success, especially in the early years in Tampa , becoming a member of the Soker Bowl in 1978 and 1979 and winning the showball championship in his second year with the club. Jago brought Raudis to the 1981/82 season finals, but lost to San Diego Sokkers in the decisive match. He resigned after an unsuccessful 1982 season and no longer coached the club in the show season.
Jago later twice headed the Dallas Sidekicks show club in 1984-1997 (he did not train in 1990). He was president of the World Showball League from 1998 until its merger with MISL in the 2002 season. Until recently, he was the executive director of the Dallas Cup [1] . In recognition of his accomplishments, in 2006, Queen Elizabeth II made him a member of the Order of the British Empire . In December 2010, ESPN WIde World of Sports Disney Showcase presented Gordon Jaygo with the Lifetime Achievement Award at Disney World in Orlando .
In March 2013, Jago was one of six footballers included in the 2013 Showball Hall of Fame. The other five were Preki , Kai Haaskivi, Zoltan Toth, Brian Quinn and Mike Stankovic [2] [3] .
Gordon Jago comments on the Dallas Sidekicks matches in MASL on the Norm Hitzes channel, the contract is signed for the 2013/14 and 2014/15 seasons.
In November 2013, Jago resigned from his position as Executive Director of the Dallas Cup and became the ambassador and special consultant of the tournament.
Notes
- ↑ DR PEPPER DALLAS CUP® XXXVI: March 29 - April 5, 2015
- ↑ Carrick, Buzz . Former Dallas Sidekicks Coach Gordon Jago Named 2013 Indoor Soccer Hall of Fame Inductee (English) (March 5, 2013). Archived June 17, 2013. Date of treatment March 8, 2013.
- ↑ Former Sidekicks Coach Gordon Jago Named 2013 Indoor Soccer Hall of Fame Inductee (English) , Our Sports Central (March 5, 2013). Date of treatment March 9, 2013.