Jimmy Nicholl

Jimmy Nicholl... soccer family (father Jim)... his father was born in NIR while his mother was born in Greenock, SCO... he was born in Hamilton when his father played soccer in Canada... he was three years old when his family returned to Belfast...

honoured by the Canada Soccer Hall of Fame as a player...

with Manchester United, an FA Cup winner (1977)... with Rangers FC, a two-time Scottish Premier Division winner (1986-87 and 1988-89) and three-time Scottish League Cup winner (1983-84, 1986-87, 1987-88)...

said Nicholl in the 1980s, "I was approached by Canada in 1976 to play on their national team, but I’d already played two games for Northern Ireland"...