Clyde Best

Clyde Best
OBE
Best at West Ham United's Boleyn Ground, in August 2012
Personal information
Full name Clyde Cyril Best MBE
Date of birth (1951-02-24) 24 February 1951 (age 75)
Place of birth Somerset, Bermuda
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
Somerset Trojans
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1968–1976 West Ham United 186 (47)
1975 → Tampa Bay Rowdies (loan) 19 (6)
1976 Tampa Bay Rowdies (indoor) 4 (7)
1976 Tampa Bay Rowdies 19 (9)
1977–1981 Portland Timbers 118 (38)
1977–1978 Feyenoord 23 (3)
1979–1980 Cleveland Force (indoor) 30 (33)
1980–1981 Portland Timbers (indoor) 6 (2)
1981–1982 Toronto Blizzard 22 (2)
1981–1982 Toronto Blizzard (indoor) 18 (3)
1982–1984 Los Angeles Lazers (indoor) 90 (29)
International career
1968 Bermuda 2 (1)
Managerial career
1997–1999 Bermuda
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Clyde Best (born 24 February 1951) is a former football player. He has played for Bermuda national team.

He was awarded an Order of the British Empire.

Biography

When Clyde Best was 16, he moved from Bermuda to England.

He played for West Ham United F.C.

Best made his first goal on 3 September 1969. He had 218 games and 58 goals with West Ham.

Then he played in the Dutch Eredivisie for the Feyenoord. Lated he joined some American teams (Tampa Bay Rowdies, Toronto Blizzard and Portland Timbers).

References

  1. ↑ "FIFA.com – FIFA Player Statistics: Clyde BEST". Archived from the original on 27 March 2013. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
  2. ↑ "FIFA.com - FIFA Player Statistics: Clyde BEST". 2013-03-27. Archived from the original on 2013-03-27. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
  3. ↑ "Determined to look the part, Best went into a swish London outfitters to buy a top hat. He was somewhat taken aback to find out it would cost him £500, but, unwilling to go incorrectly dressed to his investiture, paid up – only to have it confiscated on his arrival at the Palace as a security risk page (S5, Sports section Sunday Telegraph issue no 2,428 dated 23 December 2007)".
  4. ↑ "How an FA Cup night out soured Moore's West Ham career". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
  5. ↑ "Emergency Measures | Outfield Players Who Went in Goal | Goalkeepers Are Different". www.goalkeepersaredifferent.com. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
  6. ↑ "Clyde Best". www.westhamstats.info. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
  7. ↑ "Dutch team". ww7.feyenoordgeschiedenis.net. Archived from the original on 2021-05-13. Retrieved 2021-05-13.