1. Anthony Keith Waiters was an English footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
20 Facts About Tony Waiters
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Tony Waiters is better known for his coaching career in Canada.
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Tony Waiters managed the Vancouver Whitecaps to an NASL championship, and was in charge of the Canada national team, when they qualified for the 1986 World Cup, which is their first appearance in the tournament.
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Tony Waiters began his career as an amateur with Northern League club Bishop Auckland, moving to Macclesfield Town in 1958.
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Tony Waiters was capped as an England Amateur in May 1959 while at Loughborough College.
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Tony Waiters played centre-half in schoolboy football and took up goalkeeping when serving in the RAF.
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Tony Waiters won five England caps in 1964, as Alf Ramsey sought a backup for Gordon Banks with the 1966 World Cup imminent.
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Tony Waiters retired in 1967, as Blackpool were relegated from the First Division.
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In 1970, an injury to Burnley's goalkeeper Peter Mellor led to Tony Waiters' coming out of retirement.
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Tony Waiters began coaching with the England national youth side and led them to a European Championship held in Italy.
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Tony Waiters took over at Plymouth Argyle and led them to the Third Division championship and promotion in 1975.
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Tony Waiters took over the Whitecaps midway through the 1977 season and in 1979 led them to an upset of the New York Cosmos en route to victory in Soccer Bowl '79, the NASL championship.
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Tony Waiters was promoted to general manager in 1980 and remained in this role until 1982.
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At the helm of Canada, Tony Waiters saw the side reach the quarterfinals of the 1984 Olympics.
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Tony Waiters was inducted into the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame as a builder in 2001, and into the British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame in 2019.
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Tony Waiters created his company - World of Soccer - in the 1980s, producing a complete series of coaching books, soccer equipment, such as WOS markers, as well as his infamous Ace Coaching cards.
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Tony Waiters continued to coach children and young adults, helping them pursue their soccer goals and moulding players for the future.
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Tony Waiters was appointed the first Director of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America's Goalkeeping Institute, stepping down in 2006.
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Tony Waiters remained a National Staff Coach of the NSCAA and US Soccer.
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Tony Waiters died at age 83 on November 5,2020, in North Vancouver, BC, of complications from pneumonia.