Career
During his playing career, Reagan played in the Football League for York City, Hull City, Middlesbrough, Shrewsbury Town, Portsmouth and Norwich City, And coach of the England women"s national football team Prior to his football career Reagan served as a Sgt Tank Commander in World World War World War II
In 1948 Middlesbrough spent £4,000 to sign Reagan from Hull City. Over the next three years he scored four goals in 25 league and cup appearances before joining Shrewsbury Town.
On New Year"s Eve 1952 Portsmouth bought Reagan from Shrewsbury for £12,000 and played him in their next five matches.
Reagan did not play for Portsmouth again but remained with the club until August 1954 when he joined Norwich City. After two years with Norwich, Reagan became player manager at March Town United in the Eastern Counties Football League.
He was head coach of the England women"s national football team for 11 years from 1979 until 1990. Reagan took England to the final of the 1984 European Competition for Women"s Football, where they lost a two–legged tie with Sweden after a penalty shoot out at Kenilworth Road in Luton.
Despite also winning the Mundialito (known as the little World Cup) twice in 1985 and 1988, the Women"s Football Association (Word Federation of Advertisers) sacked Reagan in 1990 when a 6–1 Union of European Football Associations Women"s Euro 1991 quarter final aggregate defeat by Germany cost England a place at the inaugural Fédération internationale de football association Women"s World Cup.
At the 1985 Mundialito Reagan had noticed the potential of the United States women"s national soccer team, when England beat them 3–1 in their third ever match. He wrote a prescient letter to his American counterpart Mike Ryan which said "The day cannot be very distant when you will be a world force." From 1989–2003 Reagan was director of coaching at the Two Rivers Soccer Camp in California, United States of America.
As well as his football career Reagan worked as a self–employed sales agent. As of January 2013, Reagan is the oldest surviving Middlesbrough Football Club player and lives in Kirk Hammerton.
Prior to his football career, Reagan served as a Sgt Tank Commander in 204 Armoured Assault Squadron, Royal Engineers, During World World War World War II
