- Colin Miller (soccer)
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Colin Miller 
Personal information Full name Colin Fyfe Miller Date of birth 4 October 1964 Place of birth Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland Playing position Defender Senior career* Years Team Apps† (Gls)† 1982–1984 Toronto Blizzard 23 (2) 1984–1986 Rangers 2 (0) 1986–1988 Doncaster Rovers 61 (3) 1988 Hamilton Steelers 27 (?) 1988–1993 Hamilton Academical 198 (5) 1990 → Hamilton Steelers (loan) 11 (?) 1994 St. Johnstone 24 (0) 1995 Heart of Midlothian 19 (1) 1995–1998 Dunfermline 61 (0) 1998 Ayr United 14 (0) 1999–2000 Hamilton Academical 9 (0) 2004–2005 Abbotsford Mariners 9 (0) National team‡ 1983–1997 Canada[1] 61 (5) Teams managed 1999–2000 Hamilton Academical (player-manager) 2000–2002 Canada (assistant coach) 2003–2004 Canada (interim coach) 2005–2007 Abbotsford Rangers 2007 Derby County (assistant first-team coach) 2008–2009 Victoria Highlanders 2009 Fraser Valley Cascades women's team 2009 Vancouver Whitecaps Residency (assistant coach) 2010 Vancouver Whitecaps Residency 2010–2011 Vancouver Whitecaps FC (assistant coach) * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22 June 2009.
† Appearances (Goals).
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 22 June 2009Colin Fyfe Miller (born 4 October 1964 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland)[citation needed] is a Scottish-born Canadian professional football coach who captained the Canadian national team several times while earning 61 caps (scoring 5 goals) in total.
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Club career
Moving to Vancouver at the age of 10, Miller began his professional playing career as an 18 year old, joining the Toronto Blizzard of the NASL in 1982.[citation needed] After playing 23 games over three seasons with the Blizzard, Miller joined Scottish giants Rangers, where he spent the 1984–85 and 1985–86 seasons, appearing in four first-team games.
Miller played in 61 games and scored three goals for Football League side Doncaster Rovers in 1986–87 and 1987–88, for Scottish Football League club Hamilton Academical 199 times over six seasons (1989–94), St. Johnstone in 12 games in 1994, Heart of Midlothian 16 games in 1994–95, Dunfermline 62 times over three seasons (1995–98), Ayr United six times in 1998, and eight times as a player-manager of Academical in 1998–99. Miller also played two summer seasons for the Hamilton Steelers in the Canadian Soccer League, playing 27 times 1988 and 11 times 1990.[2]
International career
Miller made his national team debut against Scotland in June 1983 and was a squad member for Canada's only World Cup finals appearance in 1986 although he did not play. He has represented Canada in 26 FIFA World Cup qualification matches.[3] His final international was a November 1997 World Cup qualification match against Costa Rica, a game in which seven other national team veterans finished their international career.[4]
International
Canada national team Year Apps Goals 1983 2 0 1984 3 1 1985 0 0 1986 2 0 1987 0 0 1988 1 0 1989 2 0 1990 1 0 1991 3 1 1992 10 2 1993 11 1 1994 5 0 1995 5 0 1996 8 0 1997 8 0 Total 61 5 International goals
- Scores and results list Canada's goal tally first.
# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition 1. 24 October 1984 Rabat, Morocco 
Morocco2–3 Friendly 2. 3 July 1991 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles 
Jamaica2–1 3–2 1991 Gold Cup 3. 25 October 1992 Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador 
El Salvador1–1 1–1 1994 World Cup qualifier 4. 8 November 1992 Swangard Stadium, Burnaby El Salvador1–0 2–3 1994 World Cup qualifier 5. 24 March 1993 Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica (1924), San José 
Costa Rica1–0 1–0 Friendly Managerial career
He became Canada's assistant coach in the early 2000s and interim head coach in 2003–04. Miller was a youth soccer coach with the Abbotsford Soccer Association in the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, specifically the Abbotsford Rangers USL Premier Development League side, until 2007. On 3 July 2007, it was announced that Colin Miller was hired as assistant first-team coach of Derby County, an English club playing the 2007-08 season in the Premier League. On 2 April 2008, Miller was introduced as the Head Coach and Director of Soccer Operations for the Victoria Highlanders of the USL Premier Development League.[6] On 25 March 2010 and the resigns of German football coach Thomas Niendorf, was named as the new Head Coach of the Vancouver Whitecaps Residency.[7] Miller served as Assistant Manager of Vancouver Whitecaps FC during the club's 2011 inaugural season in Major League Soccer. Vancouver released Miller from his coaching contract on 26 October 2011, due to the newly appointed head coach Martin Rennie bringing in his own staff.[8]
References
- ^ Colin Miller (soccer) at National-Football-Teams.com
- ^ Vancouver Whitecaps FC – Colin Miller
- ^ Record at FIFA Tournaments – FIFA
- ^ Player profile – Canada Soccer
- ^ "Miller, Colin". National Football Teams. http://www.national-football-teams.com/v2/player.php?id=14483. Retrieved 11 November 2011.
- ^ Victoria Highlanders History [1] Retrieved on: 9 March 2009
- ^ 'Caps and Thomas Niendorf part ways
- ^ http://www.whitecapsfc.com/news/2011/10/caps-part-ways-colin-miller-and-denis-hamlett
External links
Canada squads Hamilton Academical F.C. – managers Raisbeck (1914–22) · Buchanon (1922–23) · Duncan (1923–25) · McAndrew (1925–46) · McStay (1946–51) · Wylie (1951–53) · Cox (1953–56) · Lowe (1956–59) · Paton (1959–68) · Crines (1968–69) · Lamont (1969) · Ewing (1969–70) · Shearer (1970–71) · Simpson (1971–72) · Lamont (1972) · Smith (1972–78) · McParland (1978–81) · Blackley (1981–83) · Auld (1983–84) · Lambie (1984–88) · Dempsey (1988–89) · G. Miller (1989) · Lambie (1989–90) · G. Miller (1990) · McLaren (1990–92) · Munro (1992–96) · Clark (1996–99) · C. Miller (1990–00) · Dawson (2000–02) · Hillcoat (2002–03) · Maitland (2003–05) · Reid (2005–present) ·
Canada national soccer team – Petrie (1957) · Dinsdale (1968–70) · Pike (1970–73) · McAllister (1973) · Krautzun (1973–75) · McAllister (1975) · Krautzun (1975–77) · Clarke (1979–81) · Waiters (1981–85) · Wilson (interim) (1985) · Waiters (1985–86) · Bearpark (1986–87) · Taylor (1988–89) · Lenarduzzi (1989–90) · Waiters (1990–91) · Lenarduzzi (1992–97) · Twamley (interim) (1998) · Osieck (1999–2003) · Miller (interim) (2003) · Yallop (2004–06) · Hart (interim) (2006–07) · Mitchell (2008–09) · Hart (2009–) Categories:- 1964 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Vancouver
- Canadian people of Scottish descent
- Naturalized citizens of Canada
- Soccer people from British Columbia
- Association football defenders
- Canada national soccer team managers
- Canadian soccer players
- Canadian men's international soccer players
- Canadian expatriate soccer players
- Scottish footballers
- 1986 FIFA World Cup players
- Toronto Blizzard (NASL) players
- Rangers F.C. players
- Doncaster Rovers F.C. players
- Hamilton Steelers (CSL) players
- Hamilton Academical F.C. players
- St. Johnstone F.C. players
- Heart of Midlothian F.C. players
- Dunfermline Athletic F.C. players
- Ayr United F.C. players
- Abbotsford Mariners players
- North American Soccer League players
- Scottish Football League players
- The Football League players
- Canadian Soccer League (original) players
- Expatriate footballers in England
- Canadian soccer coaches
- Derby County F.C. non-playing staff
- Hamilton Academical F.C. managers
- Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame inductees
- USL Premier Development League players
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