Gerry Heaney

Gerry Heaney
Personal information
Date of birth 1945 (age 78–79)[1]
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)[1]
Position(s) Full back
Youth career
0000–1966 Hamilton Academical
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1966–1967 Third Lanark 11 (1)
1974–1975 Vancouver Whitecaps 23 (0)
Total 34 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Gerry Heaney (born 1945) is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a full back. After playing youth football with Hamilton Academical, Heaney played in the Scottish league for Third Lanark,[2] and in the North American Soccer League for the Vancouver Whitecaps.[1]

During the 1966–67 season, Heaney combined his football career at Third Lanark with a teaching post at Jordanhill College in Glasgow and then Holy Cross High School in Hamilton.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c "NASL career stats". NASL Jerseys. Retrieved 6 August 2009.
  2. ^ "THIRD LANARK : 1946/47 – 1966/67". Post War English & Scottish Football League A – Z Player's Transfer Database. Retrieved 6 August 2009.
  3. ^ McEwan, Michael (2021). The Ghosts of Cathkin Park. Arena. p. 263.


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