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Willie Henderson signed shirt Rangers Autographs 1

Authentic Willie Henderson signed shirt Rangers Autographs 1. Retro Castore football shirt with vintage lettering & number signed by the legend Willie Henderson in black marker. Autograph was obtained in person at a private signing session we held with Willie June 2021.

William Henderson (born 24 January 1944) is a Scottish retired footballer. He played most of his career for Rangers, and spent the latter part of his career with Sheffield Wednesday, in Hong Kong with Hong Kong Rangers and with Airdrieonians. He also featured at international level for Scotland.

Henderson made his career debut in 1960 at the age of 16. He was a very pacy right-winger, and as he was only 5 feet 4 inches tall he became known as Wee Willie.

Rangers Football Club

During his time with Rangers he made over 400 appearances and won two Scottish league championships, the Scottish Cup four times and the League Cup twice, including a treble in 1963–64. Also part of the Rangers team that got to the final of the European Cup Winners’ Cup in 1966–67; and was part of the campaign that eventually brought the trophy to Ibrox in the 1971–72 season; however, he was not involved in the 3–2 final victory over FC Dinamo Moscow in Barcelona in May 1972; as he had left Rangers just prior, having fallen out with manager Willie Waddell. Additionally, Willie Henderson autographs later admitted that missing that game was one of the worst moments of his career. Thus while he sat on a beach in South Africa, his former teammates had their names carved onto the trophy.

Other teams

Henderson signed for Sheffield Wednesday for the 1972–73 season and made his debut on 12 August 1972 in a 3–0 victory over Fulham. He was a great favourite with the Wednesday fans in the two seasons that he was there even though the club had little success. He made 50 appearances for Wednesday with six as substitute, scoring five goals in his two seasons there. His last appearance for the club was on 27 April 1974; the last match of the 1973–74 season against Bolton Wanderers; a match Wednesday had to win to avoid relegation to Division Three – they won the match 1–0.

Additionally, Willie Henderson left Wednesday at the end of that season and went to play for Hong Kong Rangers. In November 1976, he moved to Caroline Hill. He spent three years in the colony and captained the Hong Kong League XI; (a team made up of foreign professionals plying their trade in Hong Kong) before returning to Scotland for a final season with Airdrieonians.