Colin Miller (soccer)

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Colin Miller
Personal information
Full name Colin Fyfe Miller
Date of birth October 4, 1964 (1964-10-04) (age 43)
Place of birth    Lanarkshire, Scotland
Playing position Defender (retired)
Club information
Current club Derby County (assistant first-team coach)
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1982-1984
1984-1986
1986-1988
1988
1988-1994
1990
1994-1995
1995-1996
1996-1998
1998-1999
1999-2000		 Toronto Blizzard
Rangers
Doncaster Rovers
Hamilton Steelers
Hamilton Academical
Hamilton Steelers (loan)
St. Johnstone
Heart of Midlothian
Dunfermline
Ayr United
Hamilton Academical		 23 (0)
4 (0)
61 (3)
27 (?)
198 (5)
11 (?)
24 (0)
19 (1)
62 (0)
6 (0)
9 (0)   
National team
1983-1997 Canada 61 (5)
Teams managed
1999-2000
2000-2002
2003-2004
2005-2007
2007-		 Hamilton Academical (player-manager)
Canada (assistant coach)
Canada (interim coach)
Abbotsford Rangers
Derby County (assistant first-team coach)

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

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 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 July 3rd, 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 English Premier League.

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Ontario Soccer Hall of Fame for Canada inductee page for Miller

Preceded by
Flag of Germany Holger Osieck		 Canada Head Coach
2003		 Succeeded by
Flag of Canada Frank Yallop
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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
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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 (1978–82) • Blackley (1982–83) • 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 (1996–98) • C. Miller (1998–99) • Dawson (1999–02) • Hillcoat (2002–03) • Maitland (2003–05) • Reid (2005–-) •