Robert Johnston McCann (15 October 1932 – 12 September 2017) was a Scottish

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

, who played as a

wing half In the sport of association football, a midfielder takes an outfield position primarily in the middle of the pitch. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. ...

for Dundee North End,

Dundee United Dundee United Football Club is a Scotland, Scottish professional association football, football club based in the city of Dundee. Formed in 1909, originally as Dundee Hibernian, the club changed to the present name in 1923. United are nickname ...

, Queen's Park,

Motherwell Motherwell (, ) is a List of towns and cities in Scotland by population, town and former burgh in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, south east of Glasgow. It has a population of around 32,120. Shires of Scotland, Historically in the p ...

Hamilton Academical Hamilton Academical Football Club, often known as Hamilton Accies, or The Accies, is a Scottish football club from Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, who currently compete in . They were established in 1874 from the school football team at Hamilto ...

and

Scotland Scotland is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjac ...

. McCann represented Scotland and the

Scottish League XI The Scottish League XI was a representative side of the Scottish Football League. The team regularly played against the (English) Football League and other national league select teams between 1892 and 1980. For a long period the annual fixture be ...

five times each between 1959 and 1961.Scottish League v Scottish XI, 1959
David Stuart, The Scotland Epistles Football Magazine, 11 November 2016

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mccann, Bert 1932 births 2017 deaths Footballers from Dundee Men's association football wing halves Scottish men's footballers Dundee North End F.C. players Dundee United F.C. players Queen's Park F.C. players Motherwell F.C. players Hamilton Academical F.C. players Scottish Football League players Scotland men's international footballers Scottish Football League representative players Scotland men's amateur international footballers Place of death missing