John Archie MacKenzie (also spelled McKenzie; 4 September 1925 – 5 July 2017) was a Scottish footballer[4] who spent most of his career with Partick Thistle, where he was known as the "Firhill Flyer".
[6] He played for Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic during the 1947-48 season whilst on military service in Dorset but became a first-team regular upon his return to Partick Thistle.
[6] MacKenzie was capped nine times by the Scotland national team, and was part of the squad which travelled to Switzerland for the 1954 FIFA World Cup.
The highlight of his international career was arguably against Hungary – the number one rated team in the world at the time – on 8 December 1954; during the game MacKenzie repeatedly beat his opponent Mihály Lantos, and afterwards Ferenc Puskás complimented him, stating that he had "never seen wing play of such a high standard".
[8] MacKenzie is, to date, the only native Gaelic-speaker to have played for Scotland,[9] although others may have had knowledge of the language (Peter Campbell and Moses McNeil, who founded Rangers, and Andy McCombie).