Lawrie McKinna

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Personal information
Lawrie McKinna
Full name	Lawrie McKinna
Date of birth	July 8, 1961
Place of birth	Kilmarnock, Scotland
Playing position	Forward
Club information
Current club	Central Coast Mariners
Number	Manager
Youth clubs
1981-1982	Darvel
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1982-1986 1986 1987 1988 1989-1990 1990-1991 1991-1993 1993-1994 1994 1995-1997 1998	Kilmarnock Box Hill Heidelberg United APIA Leichhardt Blacktown City Wollongong City Blacktown City Newcastle Breakers Blacktown City Hills United Penrith Panthers	87 (17) ? (?) 24 (6) 25 (2) 31 (4) 5 (0) 39 (25) 7 (0) 23 (7) ? (?) 4 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Lawrie McKinna (born July 8, 1961) is a Scottish former professional footballer and current football manager. He is currently manager of A-League side Central Coast Mariners.

[edit] Playing Career

Born in Kilmarnock in southwest Scotland, McKinna began his career as a striker with local junior side Darvel and made his debut for Scottish Premier League side Kilmarnock in 1982. He made 87 league appearances for Kilmarnock, scoring 17 times before moving to Australia in 1986 where he went on to play for several more clubs in the NSL and various state leagues.

[edit] Coaching and Managerial Career

McKinna’s coaching career began in 1992 with New South Wales side Blacktown City as assistant manager. In 1995 Hills United hired him as a player/manager. In 1997 he became assistant to David Mitchell with National Soccer League clubs Sydney Olympic, then following Mitchell to Sydney United in 1998 and Parramatta Power in 1999.

He left Parramatta Power in 2002 to take over as manager of Northern Spirit. His first season as a NSL coach was extremeley promising and successful as he beat many accomplished coaches, and was awarded with the NSL coach of the year award after taking the Northern Spirit to their first finals campaign for three years.

In 2005 he was named as manager of the new A-League club the Central Coast Mariners, earning the inaugural A-League coach of the year award after leading the Mariners to the grand final and winning the preseason cup. In May 2006 he signed a new five-year contract with the Mariners ^[1]

In the 2006/2007 season, McKinna gave an interview during which his team were struggling for on field success. Notably saying how it was frustrating for him when the press report losses in matches but don't mention the long-term injury's to the sides key players like Nik Mrdja, Andre Gumprecht and Noel Spencer. In the interview he also talked about his footballing coaching licenses and mentions that he would be preparing to take his '“Asian 'B' license” coarse soon. ^[2]

[edit] References

Central Coast Mariners FC - Current Squad
1 Crawley \| 3 O'Grady \| 5 Porter \| 6 Gumprecht \| 7 Hutchinson \| 8 McMaster \| 9 Mrdja \| 10 Pondeljak \| 11 Brown \| 12 Petrie \| 13 Vidmar \| 15 Clark \| 16 Boogaard \| 17 Osman \| 18 Wilkinson \| 19 Kwasnik \| 20 Vukovic \| 23 Jedinak \| 30 Simon \| 30 Trott \| X Petrovski \| X Owens \| Coach McKinna