Kevin McKenna
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Kevin James McKenna | ||
Date of birth | 21 January 1980 | ||
Place of birth | Calgary, Alberta, Canada | ||
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Position(s) | Centre back | ||
Youth career | |||
1990–1995 | Calgary Foothills | ||
1995–1998 | Calgary Dinos | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (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) |
International career‡ | |||
2000–2012 | Canada | 63 | (11) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15:33, 17 January 2015 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 14 January 2015 |
Kevin James McKenna (born 21 January 1980 in Calgary) is a retired Canadian professional soccer player who ended his career with 1. FC Köln after the 2013-14 Second German Bundesliga season. He was a centre back who 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. On 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
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1. FC Köln
In the summer of 2007, McKenna signed a four-year contract with 1. FC Köln, dropping down a division to the German Second Division. 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.[3]
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.[4] He has represented Canada in four FIFA World Cup qualification matches.[5] 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.[6] McKenna was named the captain for Canada during the Gold Cup with Paul Stalteri not in the tournament roster.[7]
International goals
# | Date | City | Opponent | Result | Competition |
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1. | 30 May 2000 | Winnipeg, MB, Canada | Honduras | 3–1 | Friendly |
2. | 18 January 2002 | Miami, FL, USA | Haiti | 2–0 | 2002 CONCACAF Gold Cup |
3. | 18 January 2002 | Miami, FL, USA | Haiti | 2–0 | 2002 CONCACAF Gold Cup |
4. | 26 January 2002 | Miami, FL, USA | Martinique | 1–1 | 2002 CONCACAF Gold Cup |
5. | 12 February 2003 | Tripoli, Libya | Libya | 4–2 | Friendly |
6. | 1 June 2003 | Wolfsburg, Germany | Germany | 1–4 | Friendly |
7. | 13 June 2004 | Kingston, ON, Canada | Belize | 4–0 | 2006 World Cup Qualification |
8. | 26 March 2005 | Barcelos, Portugal | Portugal | 1–4 | Friendly |
9. | 25 July 2005 | Burnaby, BC, Canada | Honduras | 1–2 | Friendly |
10. | 7 September 2010 | Montreal, QC, Canada | Honduras | 2–1 | Friendly |
11. | 29 February 2012 | Limassol, Cyprus | Armenia | 1–3 | Friendly |
Honours
Individual
- CONCACAF Gold Cup Best XI: 2002
Canada Under 15 Cup Winners 1995
Country
Canada
- CONCACAF Gold Cup:
- Third place: 2002
References
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External links
- Kevin McKenna at National-Football-Teams.comLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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- Living people
- Sportspeople from Calgary
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- 2001 FIFA Confederations Cup players
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- 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
- 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
- 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
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- FC Energie Cottbus players
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- Heart of Midlothian F.C. players
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