Cammie Fraser

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Cammie Fraser
Personal information
Full name John Cameron Fraser [1]
Date of birth (1941-05-24) 24 May 1941 (age 82)
Place of birth Blackford, Scotland
Position(s) Full back
Youth career
– Gairdoch United
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1958–1962 Dunfermline Athletic 80 (0)
1962–1965 Aston Villa 33 (1)
1965–1966 Birmingham City 39 (0)
1967–1968 Falkirk 0 (0)
International career
1961–1962 Scotland under-23 [2] 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

John Cameron Fraser (born 24 May 1941) is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a full back. [3] He played 80 games for Dunfermline Athletic in the Scottish Football League and a further 72 for Aston Villa and Birmingham City in the English Football League. [4]

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Playing career

Fraser, born in Blackford, Perth and Kinross, began his football career as a youngster with Gairdoch United before joining Dunfermline Athletic in 1958 at the age of 17. [3] Under Jock Stein's management at Dunfermline, he was a Scottish Cup-winner in 1961, defeating Celtic 2–0 in the replay after the original tie had finished goalless. [5] [6] Fraser, then 19, was the youngest player in the squad. [7] This victory meant that Dunfermline qualified for the European Cup Winners' Cup. Fraser played in the club's run to the quarter-final, in which they lost to Újpesti Dózsa 5–3 on aggregate, though he missed the first leg of the quarter-final due to influenza apparently brought on by a vaccination. [8] [9] He was twice capped for Scotland at under-23 level during his time with Dunfermline. [3] [10]

In October 1962, Fraser joined First Division club Aston Villa for a fee of £24,000, [11] which paid for Dunfermline's new main stand. [7] He played 40 games for Aston Villa in all competitions, and was on the losing side in the 1963 Football League Cup Final against Birmingham City. Following a contractual dispute with the club he quit, joining his wife's hairdressing business in London, before returning to football in February 1965 with Birmingham City, who paid Villa a £9,000 fee for his services. [3] [11]

Fraser made a few appearances in attack for Birmingham, relegated to the Second Division at the end of the 1964–65 season, and played regularly at right-back the following season. [12] He then returned to Scotland to join Falkirk, though never played for the first team. [3] [4]

Personal life

In 2007, Fraser was reported as spending much of his time in Australia and the Far East. [13] His father William played professional football for Aldershot and Northampton Town. [3]

Honours

with Dunfermline Athletic

with Aston Villa

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  5. ↑ "Scottish Cup Final". ParsDatabase.co.uk. Retrieved 11 March 2009.
  6. ↑ "Scottish Cup Replay". ParsDatabase.co.uk. Retrieved 11 March 2009.
  7. 1 2 Pattullo, Alan (26 May 2001). "East End boys set Stein on his way". The Scotsman . Retrieved 11 March 2009.
  8. ↑ "Season 1961/1962 – European Cup Winners Cup". ParsDatabase.co.uk. Retrieved 11 March 2009.
  9. ↑ "European Cup Winners Cup – quarter-final First Leg". ParsDatabase.co.uk. Retrieved 11 March 2009.
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