The legendary Liverpool midfielder Ron Yeatsnicknamed ‘the colossus’, died on Friday night, aged 86, the English Anfield club announced.
“We mourn the passing of our legendary former captain Ron Yeats. The thoughts of everyone at Liverpool are with Ron’s family and friends,” indicated a note released by the red club.
The Scottish defender, who suffered from Alzheimer’s, was part of the Liverpool team that won the second division title coached by Bill Shankly in the 1960s and marked the entity’s takeoff.
Born in Aberdeen in 1937, Yeats played 454 games for Liverpool. Captain in 400 of them, he is a reference for the club he arrived in 1961 to make the Anfield entity one of the most powerful in England.
Established in the highest category of English football, he won two titles of the Football League – first division -, the English Cup and three Super Cup trophies in the ten years he played for the red team.
Yeats joined Liverpool from Dundee United and Shankly appointed him captain. At the age of 34 he left the club to join Tranmere Rovers.
Source: La Verdad
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