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Allie McNab

Jamaican football manager

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 27, 2024
Entity authorityQ124040078 ↗
Source-derived summary

Aldrick McNab is a Jamaican football manager and former player.

Early life

McNab grew up near Cornwall College in Jamaica.

Career

McNab played for the St. Louis Stars in 1967. He later played for Jamaican side Boys' Town, helping the club win the league in 1983–84.

He was inducted into the Caribbean Sports Hall of Fame as a member of the class of 2012.

Personal life

McNab worked as a sportscaster with the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation.

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The public source identifies “Allie McNab” as jamaican football manager. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Allie, McNab and Jamaican.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1967, 1983, 2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Allie, McNab and Jamaican providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Allie McNab” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.