Colin Miller (soccer)

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Colin Fyfe Miller (born October 4, 1964 in Lanarkshire) is a Scottish-born Canadian professional football coach who captained the Canadian national team several times while earning 61 caps in total.

Moving to Vancouver as a youth, Miller began his professional playing career as an 18 year old, joining the Toronto Blizzard of the NASL in 1982. 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.

Miller made his national team debut against Scotland in 1983 and was a squad member for Canada's only World Cup finals appearance in 1986. He became team assistant coach in the early 2000s and interim head coach in 2003-04.

Miller is currently a youth soccer coach with the Abbotsford Soccer Association in the Fraser Valley in British Columbia.

Preceded by Holger Osiek	Canada Head Coach 2003	Succeeded by Frank Yallop

	Canada squad - 1986 FIFA World Cup
1 Lettieri \| 2 Lenarduzzi \| 3 Wilson \| 4 Ragan \| 5 Moore \| 6 Bridge \| 7 Valentine \| 8 Gray \| 9 Segota \| 10 Vrablic \| 11 Sweeney \| 12 Samuel \| 13 Pakos \| 14 Mitchell \| 15 James \| 16 Ion \| 17 Norman \| 18 Lowery \| 19 De Luca \| 20 Miller \| 21 Habermann \| 22 Dolan \| Coach: Waiters