Colin Miller (soccer, born 1964)

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Colin Miller
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Miller in 2010
Personal information
Full name Colin Fyfe Miller [1]
Date of birth (1964-10-04) 4 October 1964 (age 59)
Place of birth Hamilton, Scotland
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) [2]
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1982–1984 Toronto Blizzard 23 (2)
1984–1986 Rangers 2 (0)
1986–1988 Doncaster Rovers 61 (3)
1988 Hamilton Steelers 27 (2)
1988–1993 Hamilton Academical 198 (5)
1990 → Hamilton Steelers (loan) 11 (0)
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)
International career
1982 Canada U20 5 (0)
1983–1997 Canada [3] 61 (5)
Managerial career
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
2009 Vancouver Whitecaps Residency (assistant coach)
2010 Vancouver Whitecaps Residency
2010–2011 Vancouver Whitecaps FC (assistant coach)
2012 Fraser Valley Cascades Men's (assistant coach)
2012–2017 FC Edmonton
2013 Canada (interim coach)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Colin Fyfe Miller (born 4 October 1964) [2] is a Canadian professional soccer coach who captained the Canadian national team several times while earning 61 caps (scoring 5 goals) in total. [4]

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Club career

Moving to Vancouver at the age of 10, Miller began his professional playing career as a 17-year-old, joining the Toronto Blizzard of the NASL in 1982. [5] 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 in 1988 and 11 times in 1990. [6]

International career

Miller made his national team debut against Scotland on 19 June 1983 [7] and was a squad member for Canada's only World Cup finals appearance in 1986 although he did not play. [8] He has represented Canada in 26 FIFA World Cup qualification matches. [9] 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. [10]

Managerial career

In the early 2000s, he was named Canada's assistant coach. In 2003–2004, he served as temporary manager. 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. [11]

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 manager and Director of Soccer Operations for the Victoria Highlanders FC of the USL Premier Development League. [12]

On 25 March 2010, with the resignation of German soccer coach Thomas Niendorf, Miller was named as the new manager of the Vancouver Whitecaps Residency. [13] 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 manager Martin Rennie's desire to bring in his own staff. [14]

On 27 November 2012, FC Edmonton announced Colin Miller as its new manager. [15]

In January 2013, Miller was confirmed interim manager of Canada for a second time following the departure of Stephen Hart. [15] On 14 March 2013, it was announced that Tony Fonseca, technical director for the Canadian Soccer Association, as manager of the Canadian national team for the friendly matches in March 2013, [16] although Miller returned as interim head coach for a match in Edmonton on 28 May. [17] The CSA announced in mid-June that Miller would continue as interim manager for Canada during the 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup. [18]

On 4 December 2017, FC Edmonton parted ways with Miller after five seasons following the dissolution of the North American Soccer League. [19]

Career statistics

International

[3]

Canada national team
YearAppsGoals
198320
198431
198500
198620
198700
198810
198920
199010
199131
1992102
1993111
199450
199550
199680
199780
Total615

International goals

Scores and results list Canada's goal tally first.
#DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.24 October 1984 Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium, Rabat, MoroccoFlag of Morocco.svg  Morocco 2–12–3 Friendly
2.3 July 1991 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, United StatesFlag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica 2–13–2 1991 Gold Cup
3.25 October 1992 Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador, El SalvadorFlag of El Salvador.svg  El Salvador 1–11–1 1994 World Cup qualifier
4.8 November 1992 Swangard Stadium, Burnaby, CanadaFlag of El Salvador.svg  El Salvador 1–02–31994 World Cup qualifier
5.24 March 1993 Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica, San José, Costa RicaFlag of Costa Rica.svg  Costa Rica 1–01–0Friendly

Managerial record

As of 18 June 2015
TeamFromToRecord
GWLTGFGAGDWin %
Hamilton Academical 1 July 1998 [20] 20 August 1999 [20] 46826123983−44017.39
Canada 2 September 2003 [21] 31 December 2003 [22] 3003311−8000.00
Abbotsford Rangers 2005200749172489288+4034.69
Victoria Highlanders 3 April 2008 [23] 26 July 2009 [24] 166643725+12037.50
FC Edmonton 27 November 2012 [15] 24 November 2017742228249393+0029.73
Canada7 January 2013 [15] 14 March 2013 [16] 201104−4000.00
Canada16 May 2013 [17] 14 July 2013403104−4000.00
Total194538853264308−44027.32

Personal life

Colin Miller is married to his high school sweet heart Maria Miller.

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