Clyde Cyril Best MBE (born February 24, 1951 in Bermuda) was a Bermudian football player who most notably played as a striker for West Ham United, and was one of the first post-World War II black players in British football. While he initially suffered through some unpleasant fan chanting, Clyde became a true fan favourite at Upton Park. He 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. He made his first team debut for West Ham in a 1-1 home draw against Arsenal on 25 August 1969. His first goal for the Hammers being in the League Cup in a 4-2 win against Halifax Town, on 3 September 1969. 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 Cyril Best MBE (born February 24, 1951 in Bermuda) was a Bermudian football player who most notably played as a striker for West Ham United, and was one of the first post-World War II black players in British football. While he initially suffered through some unpleasant fan chanting, Clyde became a true fan favourite at Upton Park. He 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. He made his first team debut for West Ham in a 1-1 home draw against Arsenal on 25 August 1969. His first goal for the Hammers being in the League Cup in a 4-2 win against Halifax Town, on 3 September 1969. Best played 218 games and registered 58 goals for West Ham over 7 seasons between August 1969 and January 1976. Best also played for Feyenoord in the Dutch Eredivisie as well as the Tampa Bay Rowdies, Toronto Blizzard and Portland Timbers of the North American Soccer League. Best received his first cap at the age of fifteen playing for the Bermudian national team. Best also coached the national team from 1997 to 1999. Best was also instrumental in the origins of football at Irvine Valley College in Southern California, as a founding member of the coaching staff along with Head Coach Martin McGrogan in 1993. Best was inducted into the Bermuda National Sports Hall of Fame in 2004. He was awarded an MBE in the January 2006 New Year's Honours list for services to football and the community in Bermuda. (en)
  • Clyde Best (* 24. Februar 1951 in Bermuda) ist ein ehemaliger Fußballspieler. Best begann in seiner Jugend bei Somerset Trojans, ehe er 1968 zu West Ham United wechselte, für die er in sieben Jahren 174 Spiele spielte und 46 Tore schoss. 1975 wechselte er zu den Tampa Bay Rowdies in den USA. Ein Jahr später ging er zu den Portland Timbers um 1977 wieder nach Europa zurückzukehren, nämlich nach Feyenoord Rotterdam. Doch schon 1978 ging er erneut zu den Portland Timbers. Seine Karriere beendete er bei den Toronto Blizzards. In seiner Fußballerlaufbahn spielte er auch für die Nationalmannschaft Bermudas. (de)
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  • 186 (47) 19 (6) 19 (9) 23 (3) 93 (31) 22 (2) (en)
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  • Clyde Cyril Best MBE (born February 24, 1951 in Bermuda) was a Bermudian football player who most notably played as a striker for West Ham United, and was one of the first post-World War II black players in British football. While he initially suffered through some unpleasant fan chanting, Clyde became a true fan favourite at Upton Park. He 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. He made his first team debut for West Ham in a 1-1 home draw against Arsenal on 25 August 1969. His first goal for the Hammers being in the League Cup in a 4-2 win against Halifax Town, on 3 September 1969. Best played 218 games and registered 58 goals for West Ham over 7 seasons between August 1969 and January 1976. (en)
  • Clyde Best (* 24. Februar 1951 in Bermuda) ist ein ehemaliger Fußballspieler. (de)
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