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Welsh footballer
Graham Evan Williams
(born 2 April 1938) is a Welsh former
footballer
who played as a
full back
. He spent his entire 17-year professional career at
West Bromwich Albion
.
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Williams was born in
Henllan
,
Denbighshire
. He joined
West Bromwich Albion
as an amateur in September 1954 and turned professional in April 1955. He captained the side to victory in the
1966 Football League Cup Final
and
1968 FA Cup Final
, scoring in the second leg of the 1966 final against West Ham United. He also won 26 caps for
Wales
.
After leaving Albion in 1972 he took up the post of player-manager with
Weymouth
, with whom he remained until 1975. In November 1981, he was appointed chief coach of
Cardiff City
, taking over from
Richie Morgan
, who moved to a general manager's role. After a disastrous run of nine losses in fifteen games, both Williams and Morgan were sacked in February 1982, with
Len Ashurst
taking over at
Ninian Park
. Williams took several coaching jobs abroad including steering Finnish team
RoPS
to the quarter finals of the European Cup Winners' Cup.
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Later on in his career he served as the assistant manager of the Welsh national side under
Bobby Gould
, and held a scouting role at
Cheltenham Town
while Bobby Gould was manager of the team.
Following his coaching career and scouting for Cheltenham he went in to scouting of academy players for Newcastle, Chelsea and the Tottenham Hotspurs before retiring in 2019
Honours
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West Bromwich Albion
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