Gary Speed

Gary Speed's story sits heavy with me. As a Welsh footballer he was relentlessly durable, a Leeds United product who became a fixture across a long career, and as Wales manager he's widely credited with sparking the national team's revival. That makes his death in 2011 all the harder to process. I find myself dwelling on the gap between his outward steadiness and whatever he carried privately. His legacy, to me, is twofold: the pathway he laid for later Welsh success, and the way his loss pushed conversations about mental health in football into the open. Both feel important, and inseparable.

Name (English)

Gary Speed

Name (Japanese)

ガリー・スピード

Reading

がりー・すぴーど

Born

September 8, 1969 – November 27, 2011

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Rooster

Origin

Mancot, United Kingdom

Height

178 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

High school

Hawarden High School

Awards & achievements

• 2010 Member of the Order of the British Empire

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Speed
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AC%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%94%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q202153

Tags

• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

2026-06-02

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