Jimmy Calderwood dies aged 69 after Scottish football legend's dementia battle

Jimmy Calderwood, the erstwhile Aberdeen and Dunfermline manager, was diagnosed with aboriginal onset dementia successful 2017 and decided to spell nationalist with his condition

Former Aberdeen and Dunfermline manager Jimmy Calderwood has died astatine the property of 69.

Calderwood, who retired aft a precise little spell astatine Dutch nine De Graafschap successful 2014, was diagnosed with aboriginal onset dementia successful 2017.

Calderwood made his sanction with the Pars, whom helium led to their highest ever presumption of 4th successful the Scottish Premier League successful 2004, arsenic good arsenic the Scottish Cup final.

He moved to Pittodrie aboriginal that aforesaid year, wherever his five-year reign included a celebrated 2-2 gully with Bayern Munich successful the UEFA Cup successful 2008. The Dons led the tributes, penning connected X: “Everyone astatine Aberdeen FC is profoundly saddened to larn of the passing of our erstwhile manager Jimmy Calderwood.”

Glasgow-born Calderwood signed his archetypal nonrecreational declaration with Birmingham and spent 8 years astatine St Andrew’s betwixt 1972 and 1980 earlier moving connected to walk a decennary successful the Netherlands.

After moving into absorption abroad, helium returned to Scotland to walk 5 palmy years with Dunfermline, and aft leaving Aberdeen helium besides had briefer spells astatine Kilmarnock and Ross County.

Calderwood was diagnosed with aboriginal onset dementia successful 2017 and decided to spell nationalist astir his information successful a bid to rise awareness.

He told the BBC : “I tin person a moan, arsenic galore of my players would say, but I’ve had a fantastic beingness successful football. I’ve seen large places, travelled the world.”

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