Colin Anderson Stein (born 10 May 1947) is a Scottish former
footballer
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, who played for
Hibernian,
Rangers (two spells),
Coventry City
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and
Kilmarnock
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. Stein was part of the Rangers team that won the
1971–72 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, and he scored one of the goals in a 3–2 victory against
Dinamo Moscow
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in the
final
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. Stein also represented
Scotland
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and the
Scottish League XI
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. He scored nine goals in 21 appearances for Scotland, including
four goals in a
1970 FIFA World Cup qualification match against
Cyprus
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.
Career
Stein, who was born in
Linlithgow
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, began his career with
Armadale Thistle. He went on to play professionally for
Hibernian,
Rangers and the
Scottish national team during the 1960s and 1970s. He also had a spell in England with
Coventry City
Coventry City Football Club is a professional association football club based in Coventry, West Midlands, England. The team currently compete in the Championship, the second tier of the English football league system. The club is nicknamed t ...
. He played an important part in Rangers winning the
1972 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Final
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, scoring the opening goal in the final.
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Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Rangers beat
Stade Rennais,
Sporting CP
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,
Torino
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,
Bayern Munich and
Dinamo Moscow
MGO VFSO "Dynamo" (russian: МГО ВФСО «Динамо»), commonly known as Dynamo Moscow (russian: Динамо Москва) is a Russian sports club based in Moscow. Founded by Felix Dzerzhinsky on 18 April 1923, Dynamo Moscow was the first ...
to win the competition.
On 2 January 1971, during an
Old Firm
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match at
Ibrox, Stein scored an equaliser in stoppage time to salvage a draw for Rangers after
Celtic
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Sports Fo ...
had taken the lead in the 89th minute. Minutes later after full-time, barriers on Stairway 13 at Ibrox gave way, causing a chain-reaction pileup of spectators that killed 66 and injured over 200 in what would be remembered as the
second Ibrox disaster. Initial reports speculated that Rangers supporters who had left the ground turned back upon hearing the crowd roar at Stein's goal, leading to the disaster.
The official inquiry into the tragedy conclusively proved that all the spectators were moving in the same direction at the time of the collapse, however.
Stein registered a
hat-trick for Scotland in 1969, when he scored four goals in a match against
Cyprus
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. He held the distinction of being the last player to score a hat-trick for Scotland until 2015, when
Steven Fletcher scored three times against
Gibraltar
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. Stein won a total of 21 caps for
Scotland
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, scoring nine goals.
In the twilight of his career, after leaving
Kilmarnock
Kilmarnock (, sco, Kilmaurnock; gd, Cill Mheàrnaig (IPA: ʰʲɪʎˈveaːɾnəkʲ, "Marnock's church") is a large town and former burgh in East Ayrshire, Scotland and is the administrative centre of East Ayrshire, East Ayrshire Council. ...
, Stein also played for
Elgin City
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Elgin was founded in 1893 and originally played their football in the Highland Football League. The club was g ...
, who were then a
Highland League side.
Personal life
His elder brother,
Bobby Stein
Robert Stein (1938/9 – 13 August 2021) was a Scottish professional footballer who played for Broxburn Athletic, Raith Rovers, Montrose and East Stirlingshire
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, was also a professional footballer.
Career statistics
International appearances
International goals
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See also
*
List of Scotland national football team hat-tricks
alt=A head and upper shoulders shot of a statue of a footballer, Denis Law, who scored three hat tricks for Scotland, pictured here in a statue outside Old Trafford.
Since Scotland national football team, Scotland's first international associat ...
Notes
References
External links
*
International statsat Londonhearts.com
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1947 births
Armadale Thistle F.C. players
Association football forwards
Coventry City F.C. players
Elgin City F.C. players
Hibernian F.C. players
Kilmarnock F.C. players
Living people
People from Linlithgow
Rangers F.C. players
Scotland international footballers
Scotland under-23 international footballers
Scottish Football League players
Scottish Football League representative players
Scottish footballers
Scottish Junior Football Association players
Footballers from West Lothian
English Football League players
Scottish league football top scorers
Highland Football League players
Scottish Football Hall of Fame inductees