Kevin McKenna

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Kevin McKenna
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McKenna in 2019
Personal information
Full name Kevin James McKenna
Date of birth (1980-01-21) 21 January 1980 (age 44)
Place of birth Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Height 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) [1]
Position(s) Centre back
Youth career
1990–1995 Calgary Foothills
1995–1998 Calgary Dinos
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1998–2001 Energie Cottbus 5 (0)
2001 → Heart of Midlothian (loan) 8 (0)
2001–2005 Heart of Midlothian 114 (21)
2005–2007 Energie Cottbus 63 (10)
2007–2014 1. FC Köln 141 (11)
Total331(42)
International career
2000 Canada U23 5 (0)
2000–2012 Canada 63 (11)
Managerial career
2019 1. FC Köln II (caretaker)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Kevin James McKenna (born 21 January 1980) is a Canadian former professional soccer player who played as a centre back and current assistant manager of Bundesliga club Union Berlin. Occasionally, he also played as a central midfielder or striker.

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Club career

McKenna began to play with soccer 1990 in the Academy team of Calgary Foothills and was promoted to the senior team in 1991. He was selected for the Alberta Provincial Under 15 team in 1995 and won the Canadian National Championships with them that year. Owen Hargreaves was also part of that Alberta team.

Energie Cottbus

After playing with Calgary Foothills as an amateur, McKenna played three seasons (the first two in the reserves) with German Bundesliga side Energie Cottbus. In the first game of the 2000–01 season, McKenna and international teammate Paul Stalteri simultaneously became the first Canadians to play in the German Bundesliga in a match between McKenna's newly promoted Cottbus and Stalteri's Werder Bremen. [2]

Hearts

In 2001, McKenna moved to Scottish Premier League team Hearts on loan, playing eight games for the Edinburgh club. After a £300,000 transfer that summer, McKenna was the club's second leading scorer in the 2001–02 season with nine goals in 35 games. As a mostly reserve striker in 2002–03, McKenna scored six in 41. He also scored five goals in 38 games in 2003–04. After falling out of favour at Hearts in 2005, McKenna returned to Energie Cottbus. [3] He was elected as the club's new captain after the departure of former skipper Gregg Berhalter.

1. FC Köln

In the summer of 2007, McKenna signed a four-year contract with 1. FC Köln, dropping down a division to the 2. Bundesliga. McKenna made his debut for his new team on 10 August 2007, in a 2–0 away win against FC St. Pauli. Several weeks later, McKenna scored his first goal for the club on 5 October in a 4–1 home victory over Kickers Offenbach. He helped Köln to promotion into the top flight in his first season with the club.

McKenna scored his first goal in the 2010–11 season in a 4–2 away loss to powerhouse Werder Bremen on 28 August, the other goal scored by teammate Lukas Podolski. Weeks later during the month of September, McKenna had surgery done on his knee and was labeled out indefinitely, however he made a faster recovery then originally anticipated and returned to the first team in early December. He did not see any playing time until being subbed on in the 75th minute to Schalke 04 on 19 December, the game ended as a 3–0 loss.

McKenna made his 2011–12 debut as a starter on 13 August against Schalke in the team's second game of the season, it ended as a 5–1 away loss. Two weeks later Mckenna scored his first goal of the season and the winning goal to beat Hamburger SV in a thrilling 4–3 away victory. [4]

International career

McKenna made his debut for Canada in a May 2000 friendly match against Trinidad and Tobago. By November 2009, he has earned a total of 46 caps, scoring nine goals. [5] He has represented Canada in four FIFA World Cup qualification matches. [6] McKenna has been a regular for the Canadian national team since 2002, when he featured in the CONCACAF Gold Cup as a target man for Holger Osieck's side. McKenna scored three goals, including a brace over Haiti in the first round.

McKenna earned his 50th cap for team Canada in a friendly against Ecuador prior to the 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup, the game ended in a 2–2 home draw at BMO Field. [7] McKenna was named the captain for Canada during the Gold Cup with Paul Stalteri not in the tournament roster. [8]

International goals

Scores and results list Canada's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each McKenna goal. [1]
List of international goals scored by Kevin McKenna
No.DateVenueCapOpponentScoreResultCompetition
130 May 2000 Winnipeg Soccer Complex, Winnipeg, Canada2Flag of Honduras (1949-2022).svg  Honduras 2–12–1 Friendly
218 January 2002 Orange Bowl, Miami, United States8Flag of Haiti.svg  Haiti 1–02–0 2002 CONCACAF Gold Cup
32–02–0
426 January 2002 Orange Bowl, Miami, United States10Snake Flag of Martinique.svg  Martinique 1–11–1 2002 CONCACAF Gold Cup
512 February 2003 11 June Stadium, Tripoli, Libya 14Flag of Libya (1977-2011).svg  Libya 1–04–2Friendly
61 June 2003 Volkswagen Arena, Wolfsburg, Germany16Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 1–01–4Friendly
713 June 2004 Richardson Stadium, Kingston, Canada23Flag of Belize.svg  Belize 3–04–0 2006 World Cup qualification
826 March 2005 Estádio Cidade de Barcelos, Barcelos, Portugal27Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 1–31–4Friendly
925 July 2005 Swangard Stadium, Burnaby, Canada28Flag of Honduras (1949-2022).svg  Honduras 1–21–2Friendly
107 September 2010 Saputo Stadium, Montreal, Canada48Flag of Honduras (1949-2022).svg  Honduras 2–12–1Friendly
1129 February 2012 Tsirio Stadium, Limassol, Cyprus56Flag of Armenia.svg  Armenia 1–01–3Friendly

Coaching career

After retiring, McKenna started his coaching career as assistant manager for 1. FC Köln's U19 squad. [9] He was then, alongside Markus Daun, assistant coach under head coach Stefan Ruthenbeck on an interim basis 1. FC Köln's Bundesliga team in December 2017, [10] before becoming assistant coach of André Pawlak on the second team of 1. FC Köln in the summer of 2018. After Pawlak was appointed manager for the Bundesliga team in late April 2019, McKenna took over on an interim basis as head coach for the second team in the Regionalliga West. [9] In July 2019, McKenna left the club because he saw no prospect of a position as head coach in the youth area for the foreseeable future. [11]

On 19 September 2019, McKenna was appointed assistant manager of 1. FC Kaiserslautern under the new head coach Boris Schommers. [12] In 2021, he returned to Köln as an assistant coach to Steffen Baumgart. [13]

Career statistics

As of match played 19 May 2019
TeamFromToRecordRef.
GWDLWin %
1. FC Köln II 28 April 201930 June 20193201066.67 [14] [15]
Total3201066.67—

Honours

International

Individual

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  2. ↑ "Paul Stalteri profile". paulstalteri.com. Retrieved 20 May 2012.
  3. ↑ "McKenna seals Cottbus deal".
  4. ↑ "Cologne clinch seven goal thriller". FIFA.com. 27 August 2011. Archived from the original on 12 November 2012. Retrieved 20 May 2012.
  5. ↑ Mamrud, Roberto (29 February 2012). "Canada - Record International Players". RSSSF . Retrieved 20 May 2012.
  6. ↑ Kevin McKenna – FIFA competition record (archived)
  7. ↑ "Canada draws Ecuador". Sportsnet.ca. Rogers Sportsnet. 1 June 2011. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
  8. ↑ Bottjer, Steve (12 June 2011). "XI out of 10: CAN v Guadeloupe". RedNationonline.ca. Retrieved 20 May 2012.
  9. 1 2 MCKENNA UND HÖRNIG ÜBERNEHMEN U21, fc.de, 28 April 2019
  10. ↑ Ruthenbeck übernimmt vorerst mit seinem Team wird neben den Co-Trainern Kevin McKenna und Markus Daun, bundesliga.com, 3 December 2017
  11. ↑ MCKENNA VERLÄSST DEN FC, fc.de, 21 July 2019
  12. ↑ BORIS SCHOMMERS IST DER NEUE FCK-TRAINER, fck.de, 19 September 2019
  13. ↑ "McKenna kehrt zum 1. FC Köln zurück". Kicker (in German). Retrieved 28 December 2021.
  14. ↑ "Kevin McKenna". Kicker (in German). Olympia Verlag. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  15. ↑ "1. FC Köln II Termine". Kicker (in German). Olympia Verlag. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  16. ↑ "Kevin McKenna, Randee Hermus headed to Canada Soccer Hall of Fame". CBC. 12 April 2019. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
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