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Former Aberdeen and Dunfermline Athletic manager Jimmy Calderwood has died aged 69.
Calderwood was diagnosed with early-onset dementia successful 2017, 3 years aft his last managerial station with Dutch broadside De Graafschap.
The Glaswegian won the 2000 Scottish 2nd tier with Dunfermline and guided them to a grounds fourth-place decorativeness successful the apical formation 4 years later.
His Aberdeen squad famously drew with Bayern Munich successful the 2007-08 Uefa Cup.
Calderwood besides had abbreviated spells with Kilmarnock and Ross County - the second featuring a Scottish Challenge Cup triumph - and spent overmuch of his playing and coaching vocation successful the Netherlands.
A midfielder, Calderwood won an apprentice declaration with Birmingham City successful 1971, going connected to marque implicit 150 elder appearances.
He joined Sparta Rotterdam successful 1979, wherever helium played alongside Dutch shot giants, and aboriginal coaching luminaries, successful erstwhile Rangers brag Dick Advocaat, Danny Blind and Louis van Gaal.
Calderwood would spot retired his playing days successful the Netherlands, turning retired for Willem II, Roda JC and Hercales, wherever helium retired successful 1989 and became a coach.
His archetypal managerial assignment came successful 1996, arsenic helium was promoted from his assistant's presumption astatine Willem II, earlier moving to NEC Nijmegen a twelvemonth later.
In 1999, Dunfermline brought him location to Scotland, and Calderwood repaid their religion by winning the second-tier rubric successful his archetypal play astatine the helm.
In the apical division, Caldwerood's broadside finished ninth, sixth, past fifth, qualifying for the Uefa Cup, earlier earning the club-best 4th successful 2004, portion losing the Scottish Cup last to Celtic.
The nine accidental they are "hugely saddened" by his death.
After 5 years astatine East End Park, Calderwood moved northbound to Aberdeen, spending different 5 years astatine Pittodrie.
HIs champion home play came successful 2006-07, erstwhile the Dons finished 3rd successful the league - their highest placing successful 21 years - and claimed European football.
That sparked an improbable Uefa Cup tally during the pursuing campaign, erstwhile Dnipro were dispatched successful the qualifying round, FC Copenhagen hammered successful the radical stage, and qualification to the past 32 secured.
Aberdeen drew Bayern Munich and battled to a storied 2-2 gully astatine Pittodrie earlier being swatted speech successful the instrumentality leg.
Calderwood near Aberdeen successful 2009, and kept Kilmarnock successful the apical formation aft taking implicit astatine Rugby Park successful January 2010.
He oversaw Ross County's Challenge Cup triumph a twelvemonth later, earlier returning to the Netherlands with Go Ahead Eagles.
He revealed his dementia diagnosis successful August 2017 successful a bid to rise consciousness of the condition.
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