Jimmy Calderwood

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Personal information
Jimmy Calderwood
Full name	James Calderwood
Date of birth	February 28, 1955 (age 52)
Place of birth	Glasgow, Scotland
Playing position	Manager
Club information
Current club	Aberdeen
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1971-1979 1979-80 1980-8? 198?-8? 198?-8? 198?-89	Birmingham City Cambridge United Sparta Rotterdam Willem II Tilburg Roda JC Heracles Almelo	159 (?)
Teams managed
1997-1999 1999-2004 2004-present	NEC Nijmegen Dunfermline Athletic Aberdeen
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Jimmy Calderwood (born 28 February 1955 in Glasgow) is a former football player and is currently a football manager.

He started his professional career with Birmingham City in 1971, making his debut against Stoke City in 1972. He made 159 appearances for the Blues until switching to Cambridge United in 1979. He spent a short time in Cambridge before accepting the offer to move to the Netherlands, where he spent almost 10 years playing for Sparta Rotterdam, Willem II Tilburg, Roda JC and Heracles Almelo before retiring in 1989.

After a few assistant coaching positions, Calderwood moved into management in his own right by taking over Dutch club NEC Nijmegen in 1997. After a two year spell there, Scottish Premier League side Dunfermline Athletic moved to make him their new manager. Calderwood spent five seasons at East End Park where he led the club to their highest ever SPL position, finishing 4th in 2003-04, guaranteeing their return to European competition for the first time in 35 years.

In the summer of 2004 Willie Miller, returning to Pittodrie as Director of Football, brought Calderwood to Aberdeen to replace Steve Paterson as manager.

Since coming to Aberdeen he has helped to improve the fortunes of the north-eastern club. They have narrowly missed out on qualifying for european competition twice and are currently placed third in this seasons domestic competition.

[edit] Managerial Career

Preceded by ?	NEC Nijmegen manager 1997-1999	Succeeded by ?
Preceded by Dick Campbell	Dunfermline Athletic FC manager 1999-2004	Succeeded by David Hay
Preceded by Steve Paterson	Aberdeen FC manager 2004-Present	Succeeded by Incumbant

[edit] Personal Appearance

Jimmy is well known for having well-tanned skin. He is particularly dark at the start of the football season, as he spends a large portion of the close-season abroad. He is affectionately known as, "Tango" in some circles. This is due to his likeness of the character that used to feature in adverts for that soft-drink. A common joke at the time of his signing for Aberdeen was that he had signed for The Dons as there were many tanning salons in the town.

Aberdeen F.C. - Current Squad
1 Langfield \| 2 Hart \| 3 Byrne \| 4 Anderson \| 5 Diamond \| 6 Severin \| 7 J. Smith \| 8 Nicholson \| 9 Lovell \| 10 Mackie \| 11 Clark \| 14 Dempsey \| 15 Touzani \| 16 Miller \| 17 D. Smith \| 18 Winter \| 19 Foster \| 20 Soutar \| 21 Considine \| 23 Brewster \| 24 Donald \| 25 Maguire \| 26 Daal \| Manager: Calderwood