1. Clyde Cyril Best was born on 24 February 1951 and is a Bermudian former football player.
12 Facts About Clyde Best
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Clyde Best was one of the first black players in First Division football in England, scoring 47 goals as a striker for West Ham United between 1968 and 1976.
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Clyde Best has credited Moore and fellow West Ham players Harry Redknapp and Billy Bonds with helping him deal with racist abuse.
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Clyde Best was a strong, powerful player with the skills of the traditional English centre forward, tough to dispossess when he had the ball and good in the air.
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In 1973 Clyde Best deputised for an injured Bobby Ferguson in goal against Leeds United.
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Clyde Best played 218 games and registered 58 goals for West Ham over 7 seasons between August 1969 and January 1976.
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Clyde Best played in the Dutch Eredivisie for Feyenoord where he was generally viewed as a failure, scoring only 3 goals in 23 matches, and in the United States and Canada for Tampa Bay Rowdies, Toronto Blizzard and Portland Timbers of the North American Soccer League.
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Clyde Best was the Rowdies leading scorer for the brief 1976 indoor season with 11 goals, 5 assists for 27 points.
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Clyde Best was an assistant coach for the San Diego Sockers for a brief period in the early 1990s.
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Clyde Best coached the Bermuda national team from 1997 to 1999.
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Clyde Best was inducted into the Bermuda National Sports Hall of Fame in 2004.
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Clyde Best was awarded an MBE in the 2006 New Year Honours list for services to football and the community in Bermuda.