Joe Jordan

What draws me to Joe Jordan is how thoroughly his "Jaws" persona has outlived the statistics. He was the kind of fearless, bruising centre-forward that modern, ultra-clean football has largely engineered out of existence, and there is something honest about a man remembered for grit, a gap-toothed grin, and a willingness to throw his six-foot-one frame into trouble. The 1973-74 title and those European finals with Leeds matter, but I find his later move into coaching just as telling: it suggests a lifer who never wanted to leave the pitch. I have real affection for old-school number nines like this.

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Name (English)

Joe Jordan

Name (Japanese)

ジョー・ジョーダン

Reading

じょー・じょーだん

Born

December 15, 1951 (age 74)

Origin

Scotland, United Kingdom

Height

186 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Rabbit

High school

St Aidan's High School

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Jordan
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%80%E3%83%B3%20(%E3%82%B5%E3%83%83%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E9%81%B8%E6%89%8B)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q353506

Tags

• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.