Mike Renshaw

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Michael Renshaw (born April 28, 1948 in Manchester ) is a former English - American football player and coach . As an attacking left winger and later coach, he was part of the franchise squad for almost the entire time the Dallas Tornado was in the North American Soccer League ; In addition, in 1973 he completed two senior internationals for Team USA without being a US citizen .

Club career

Renshaw was already a member of the reserve squad of English first division club Blackpool at the age of 17 , but he did not succeed in making the jump to the first team when he responded to an advertisement in the Liverpool Echo in 1967 , in which footballers for a world tour and then a commitment in the United States States were sought. He was hired for the new Dallas Tornado team without coach Bob Kap having seen him play. Kenshaw was part of the roster for the first season of NASL after the world tour .

After the Dallas team was disbanded at the end of the 1968 season because of their disastrous results - the worst record ever for a NASL franchise - he returned to England, where he got a trial contract with Margate FC of the Southern Football League Premier Division , however, due to poor performance in his only competitive game in the League Cup on December 23, 1968 was immediately dismissed. Instead, he played for Rhyl FC in the League of Wales for the remainder of the 1968/69 season .

In the early summer of 1969, he was the only player from previous years to return to Dallas Tornado and became one of the top performers in the new team that followed the English system in terms of the structure of the game. In 1970 he was elected team of the NASL in the All-Star Second, in the next two years at the All-Star team voting neither the first set nor the second team, but in the extended All-Star Circle Honorable Mentions received and later became the team captain. Since his salary was quite low at this time and was only paid during the season, he worked part-time as a station manager at a railway company. He scored 1-0 in the decisive game for the championship in 1971. However, Renshaw had to retire from active sport at the age of 27 before the 1976 season due to multiple injuries to his knee.

National team

Although Renshaw had not become a US citizen, the then chaotic US association appointed him to the squad for a European tour with a stopover in Bermuda. Since FIFA did not notice the mistake, Renshaw ran on March 17, 1973 against Bermuda and on March 20, 1973 against Poland as the first and probably only non-US citizen for the US selection in A internationals. In addition, he came to four appearances against club teams (including Lazio Rome ) and U-23 selection teams (Germany and Poland) during the tour . The return to the United States appeared problematic, since Renshaw's visa and work permit had expired in the meantime, recognizable as a member of the US team, but he was allowed to enter.

Trainer

1977 Renshaw returned as assistant to coach Al Miller back to Dallas Tornado and followed this as head coach after retiring from the play-offs in 1980 against New York Cosmos . The team was already drained in terms of personnel and finances and lost the first 16 games in a row; immediately before the 17th game, he was sacked on July 4, 1981, according to some observers, to spare him the shame of finishing last in the league.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Steve Davis: " Mike Renshaw was at local soccer's root - English lad made impact with Tornado ", The Dallas Morning News of January 4, 2006.
  2. ^ Bobby Moffat: The Dallas Tornado World Tour 1967-68. In: Southern Soccer Scene. November 5, 2017, accessed February 11, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Marshall Harkins: "Missionaries and Mercenaries: Dallas Tornado Soccer 1967 to 1981", The University of Texas at Arlington, 2006 ( [1]  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically saved as marked defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ).@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / barksdale.uta.edu  
  4. ↑ a b Profile at margatefootballclubhistory.com , accessed on July 16, 2017
  5. ↑ Barrie Courtney: " USA - Details of International Matches 1970–1979 ", rsssf.com ( as of June 14, 2003, visited July 19, 2009 ).
  6. ↑ Roger Jackson, " A Roundup Of The Week June 29-July 5, " Sports Illustrated , July 13, 1981.
personal data
SURNAME Renshaw, Mike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Renshaw, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Manchester , England