Colin Miller (soccer)
Colin Fyfe Miller (born 4 October 1964 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland) is a Scottish-born Canadian professional football coach who captained the Canadian national team several times while earning 61 caps (scoring 5 goals) in total.
Club career
Moving to Vancouver at the age of 10, 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.[2]
International career
Miller made his national team debut against Scotland in June 1983 and was a squad member for Canada's only World Cup finals appearance in 1986 although he did not play. He has represented Canada in 26 FIFA World Cup qualification matches.[3] 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.[4]
International
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| Canada national team |
| Year |
Apps |
Goals |
| 1983 |
2 |
0 |
| 1984 |
3 |
1 |
| 1985 |
0 |
0 |
| 1986 |
2 |
0 |
| 1987 |
0 |
0 |
| 1988 |
1 |
0 |
| 1989 |
2 |
0 |
| 1990 |
1 |
0 |
| 1991 |
3 |
1 |
| 1992 |
10 |
2 |
| 1993 |
11 |
1 |
| 1994 |
5 |
0 |
| 1995 |
5 |
0 |
| 1996 |
8 |
0 |
| 1997 |
8 |
0 |
| Total |
61 |
5 |
International goals
- Scores and results list Canada's goal tally first.
Managerial career
He became Canada's 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 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 Head Coach and Director of Soccer Operations for the Victoria Highlanders of the USL Premier Development League.[6] On 25 March 2010 and the resigns of German football coach Thomas Niendorf, was named as the new Head Coach of the Vancouver Whitecaps Residency.[7] 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 head coach Martin Rennie bringing in his own staff.[8]
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Miller, Colin |
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| Date of birth |
4 October 1964 |
| Place of birth |
Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland |
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