Dave MacLaren
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| Dave McLaren | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | David McLaren | |
| Date of birth | June 12, 1934 | |
| Place of birth | Perthshire, Scotland | |
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
1956-1957 1957-1960 1960-1965 1965-1966 1966-1967 |
Auchterarder Dundee Leicester City Plymouth Argyle Wolves Southampton |
- (-) 1 (0) 85 (0) 131 (0) 44 (0) 22 (0) |
| Teams managed | ||
| Hellas | ||
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Dave McLaren (born June 12, 1934) is a former football goalkeeper.
McLaren began his career at local club Auchterarder before being signed to Dundee. He managed only one first team appearance for the team though, before heading to England in January 1957, where he would spend the rest of his playing career.
He joined Leicester City and immediately won promotion to the First Division as he became first choice, but he lost his place to the emerging Gordon Banks during the 1959/60 season. McLaren took this as his cue to depart and joined Second Division Plymouth Argyle at the end of the season.
The goalkeeper made more appearances for Plymouth than any of his other league clubs (131 league games) over 5 seasons in the second tier, before being signed by Wolves in early 1965. He spent only one full season at Molineux as the club attempted to regain their top flight status at the first attempt in 1965/66, but fell short.
McLaren got a chance to return to the First Division though when newly-promoted Southampton signed him soon into the following season. Ironically, McLaren had been in goal for Wolves when Southampton had scored 9 against them in the previous season (in a 9-3 victory).
He lasted just a single season at The Dell, making 22 league appearances, before losing his place to Eric Martin. After leaving Southampton he joined non-league Worcester City.
After retiring from playing, he took on a new challenge in Australia as manager of Hellas.
