Yeboah

Anthony/Tony

02-02-1995

1995-1997

CF

Kumasi, Ghana

06-06-1966

He started as a Colts player with Kotoko Babies, when he was twelve years old and gained promotion to the Under-Twenty side of Kotoko. He left the Kotoko Under-Twenty team and joined the Omnibus Services Authority (OSA) football club, a Division Three side. After one year, Yeboah left OSA and joined Neoplan Stars. He then joined Kumasi Cornerstone. While with Corners, he was invited to the national team, the Black Stars in 1984. His career started to bloom as he helped Corners’ qualification to the West African Football Union (WAFU) competition in 1986. It was in the same year that he emerged the top goal scorer in the League. After pondering over the offers, he opted for Okwahu United FC, where he played for two years, from 1986 to 1988. It was while he was with Okwahu that he, then a regular international, got an offer to play trials in Germany. He had a great performance in the World Cup qualifying series against Zambia, when he scored the only goal of the match, and it opened the door to German football. He was signed on by Saarbrucken, a Division Two side and played for them for two years from1988 to 1990, before moving to Eintracht Frankfurt. For the four years that he was striker for them, honours and achievements flowed and it was his exploits with Frankfurt which earned him star status and second place in the 1993 African ‘Footballer of the Year’ Award. He scored spectacular goals and was joint leading goalscorer in the Bundesliga in 1992-93, with eighteen goals while in 1993-94, he scored twenty goals. There was friction at Frankfurt and Yeboah left for Leeds, J.J Okocha left for Turkey and Gudino went to Manchester City. Few strikers in the modern game have made such an explosive impact as African star Yeboah. Howard Wilkinson shattered the club’s transfer record and paid German side Eintracht Frankfurt £3.4 million in what proved to be a major coup. Outside the Bundesliga, few fans had heard of the Ghananian’s goal power but it did not take long for him to take English football by storm with a series of spectacular goals. Yeboah arrived in Leeds in January 1995, after scoring sixty-eight goals in one hundred and twenty-three Bundesliga games, and soon picked up the pace with Leeds, with thirteen goals from sixteen starts, including a hat-trick against Ipswich Town, as United came up on the rails to claim UEFA Cup spot. He did not disappoint in Europe either, his spectacular hat-trick in Monte Carlo destroying Monaco, while the EPL treble he notched at Wimbledon included a blistering shot which was bettered by a match-winning volley at Elland Road that beat Liverpool and earned him the ‘Goal of the Season’ award. But the goals dried up and after missing several games because of his involvement in the African Nations Cup finals he returned to Leeds to find himself without a regular playing partner and often up front on his own. A knee injury ruled him out of the last two months of the 1995/96 season in which he finished the club’s ‘Player of the Year’. Despite rumours of Yeboah being unhappy with developments at Leeds, he vowed to honour his contract and see out his playing days with United before returning to Ghana. However, George Graham took over as Leeds Manager in September 1996 and there was instant conflict with Yeboah. Injuries did not help, but he spent too much time on the sidelines or on the bench unused, and even when he did take the field he had to plough a lone furrow. The African striker ended his career by throwing his shirt at him after being substituted at White Hart Lane in March 1997 in what proved to be Yeboah’s final game for Leeds. He had scored twenty-four goals in forty-four starts in League games and three games from the bench. He joined Hamburg SV and played for them until 2000. He could not play regularly for Hamburg becasue of a tax problem he had with the German authorities. At the peak of his career the least goals he scored in a season was fifteen but managed to score only six goals in his last season with Hamburg due to his continued attendance in court. He moved to Qatar, playing for Al-Etihad and after the first season, he was voted the best player in the league. He helped his Qatar-based team to win the league title and the King’s Cup and played in the finals of the Prince’s Cup. In all, he played twenty-one games and scored seventeen goals. Yeboah scored twenty-six goals in fifty-nine appearances for Ghana in international competition. (Leeds United Player Details)

Yarker

F.

12-04-1947

1947-1947

CF

A trialist from the Preston district he played mostly with the Yorkshire League team in 1946-47.

Yorath

Terence Charles/Terry

10-08-1968

1967-1976

WH

Cardiff

27-03-1950

5ft 10ins 11st 10lb, he was initially an inside forward but it was as an outside right that he was capped for Wales as a schoolboy. He was converted first into a defender and then a midfielder and it was in that position that he became famous for Leeds and captained his country. He joined Leeds as an apprentice after leaving school, before signing as a professional on 30th March 1967. So soon progressed through the Juniors and his versatility held him in good stead as he became a regular at that level before making his first team debut in May 1968. He went on to make one hundred and sixty-four starts, thirty four more from the bench in all competitions and scored twelve goals while at Leeds. He joined Coventry City in August 1976, scoring three goals in ninety-nine League starts. He moved to Tottenham Hotspur in August 1979 and stayed there two seasons, scoring once in forty-four starts and one game from the bench, in the League. He had a short spell with Vancouver Whitecaps before he joined Bradford City in December 1982 and made twenty-two League starts and another five as a substitute, without scoring. He then went into coaching and managing and after gaining fifty-nine caps as a player he took over the Welsh National team as manager. (Leeds United Player Details)

Young

John

19-04-1927

1927-1927

IR

Flimby

00-00-1906

Not much known about the 5ft 9 1/2 ins, 12st, player but he appears to have left Leeds, after just one appearance for the Reserves. After joining Whitburn, was taken on by Hartlepools United, in the 1927-28 season, scoring four times in nineteen League games before moving to Spennymoor United in the 1928-29 season.

Young

Charles Stuart Robertson/Stuart

25-11-1954

1954-1955

Gk

Falkirk

23-08-1929

Came on a one month trial after first playing with Sheffield United, where he had played three games in the top flight. He also played for Stalybrige Celtic and joined Leeds on a one month trial on 25th September 1954. It seems he played two or more games for the Leeds Reserves

Younger

Thomas/Tommy

23-09-1961

1961-1962

Gk

Edinburgh

10-04-1930

13-01-1984

After Starting with Hutcheson Vale he joined Hibernian in 1948 and played one hundred and eighty-one Scottish League games with them before moving South of the Border to Liverpool in June 1956 and there made one hundred and twenty League appearances before returning North of the Border to become Player/Manager of Falkirk. He only played in six Scottish League matches for them before moving to Stoke City in March 1960. He only managed ten League games for the Potters before leaving for Toronto in the North American League in 1961. He had a short stay at Rhyl and it was from there that he joined Leeds on 11th September 1961 and after a trial to check his back he became the Leeds keeper, making thirty-seven League appearances before giving way to Gary Sprake and retiring in October 1962. He was captain of Scotland at the 1958 World Cup. He was capped twenty-four times and represented the Scottish League on many occasions.(Leeds United Player Details)

Zelic

Nedjeliko/Ned

20-09-1990

1990-1990

RH

Sydney, Australia

04-07-1971

Australian International player who was outstanding as a schoolboy international in 1988. He joined the Australian Institute of Sport and also played with Sydney Croatia in 1989 starting two games and coming off the bench in six others, he went on to total thirty-six appearances before leaving in 1991. In 1989 he scored twice in eight games for the Australian Under-Twenties. It was at that point that he trialled with Leeds, and came on as a half-time substitute before making his debut in which he played a full game. He scored four goals in sixteen games from 1990 to 1992 for the Australian Under-Twenty-Threes. He then joined Canberra Metros before moving to Sydney Olympic in 1991-92, where he scored once in sixteen appearances. He gained the first of his forty caps for Australia, for whom he also scored five goals. He was not averse to changing clubs with increasing regularity and in 1992-93 he joined Borussia Dortmund (Germany) playing nineteen in 1992-93, eighteen in 1993-94 and four in 1994-95 for a Bundesliga total of forty-one in which he scored once. He joined Queens Park Rangers from Borussia Dortmund in August 1995 for a club record £1.25million and started three games and came off the bench once, as he suffered from injuries. He spent the rest of the 1995-96 season at Eintracht Frankfurt (Germany), scoring once in seventeen appearances. 1996-97 saw him in France with Auxerre where he made twelve appearances, before joining 1860 Munich for the 1997-98 season. He played thirteen games that season and scored once in thirty-three games in 1998-99, two goals in twenty-three in 1999-2000, twenty-seven games in 2000-01 and six in 2001-02 for a total of three goals in one hundred and twenty-two appearances. He then went to Japan joining Kyoto Purple Sanga in 2002, but only played once, and Urawa Red Diamonds in 2003, where he scored twice in twenty-three appearances. 2004-05 saw him in Austria with FC Wacker Tirol, where he played twenty-two games, before returning to Australia to spend 2005-06 with the Newcastle Jets, where he scored once in twenty-one games. In 2006 he was in Holland with Helmond Sport, making just seven appearances before he later played for Dinamo Tbilisi in Georgia in 2007-08, making thirty-four appearances. He retired in May 2008.