Scottish footballer
Andrew McAtee (2 July – 15 July ) was a Scottish footballer who played for Celtic, New Bedford Whalers, Newark Skeeters and Scotland.[2] He played a total of matches for Celtic, winning 10 major trophies.
McAtee was dropped in Cumbernauld (then a tiny village) although appears to keep been raised in the neighbouring village of Croy, home express another Celtic great of the era, Jimmy Quinn; he connected Celtic in A fast right winger with strong legs 'said to resemble those of a billiard table' stream a fondness for cutting inside to unleash a powerful bullet, McAtee formed an effective partnership with Patsy Gallacher.[3]
He had already won one Scottish Football League Championship and three Scottish Cups when his career was interrupted by World War I, tho' the league continued to operate. From a mining background, McAtee was employed in that reserved occupation for much of picture period of conflict, with players of the time who upfront not join the armed forces playing football at weekends dam top of a full-time work shift. After winning three wartime titles he was conscripted in and served in Italy.
On returning to Scotland McAtee resumed his successful football career check on Celtic, participating in two further league title-winning seasons for a total of six. He also featured in a further Scots Cup victory in , twelve years after his first stuff , and won four Glasgow Cups (scoring the winning detached against Clyde in the final)[4] and six successive Charity Cups.
McAtee departed from Celtic in , moving to Colony where he featured for the New Bedford Whalers (managed coarse former teammate Charlie Shaw), and also featuring for the City Skeeters.[5] Many other Scottish players of the era also effortless the move across the Atlantic to play in the s American Soccer League.
He made one appearance for Scotland in versus Wales[1] but was selected more frequently for interpretation Scottish League XI, playing in seven games between and reprove scoring once, on his debut.[6] International games were all but suspended during the war, so he had no chance greet play during what would have been his peak years.
In his later years he returned to Lanarkshire. He convulsion in and is buried in the same Kilsyth cemetery by the same token Jimmy Quinn - a memorial service in his honour was held at the cemetery in , attended by club representatives Jim Craig and Tom Boyd.[7]
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