Mo Johnston

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Mo Johnston
Personnel
Surname Maurice Thomas Johnston
birthday April 30, 1963
place of birth Glasgow ,  Scotland
size 180 cm
position Center Forward
Juniors
Years station
Milton Battlefield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1981-1984 Partick Thistle 85 (41)
1983-1985 Watford FC 38 (23)
1984-1987 Celtic Glasgow 99 (52)
1987-1989 FC Nantes 66 (22)
1989-1991 Glasgow Rangers 76 (31)
1991-1993 Everton FC 34 (10)
1993-1994 Heart of Midlothian 35 0(5)
1994-1996 FC Falkirk 41 0(6)
1996-2001 Kansas City Wizards 149 (31)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1984-1992 Scotland 38 (14)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2005-2006 MetroStars / New York Red Bulls
2007-2008 Toronto FC
1 Only league games are given.

Maurice Thomas "Mo" Johnston (born April 30, 1963 in Glasgow ) is a Scottish football coach , football manager and former football player .

Player career

Mo Johnson began his career in 1981 in Glasgow with Partick Thistle FC , where he scored 41 goals in two and a half years. In 1983 he moved to Watford FC in England . With the club he made it to the FA Cup final and scored 23 goals in 38 games.

In 1984 Johnson moved back to Scotland and played for Celtic Glasgow for three years .

In 1987 he decided to turn his back on the island and signed a contract with FC Nantes in France . After 66 games, he announced at a press conference that he would switch back to Celtic after completing his contract.

At the end of the 1988/89 season, however, he decided for the Glasgow Rangers . Johnston was the first Catholic to be enlisted by the Rangers. With his commitment, manager Graeme Souness broke a 108 year old, unwritten law according to which only Protestants played in the Rangers. This sparked a wave of outrage and provocation on the part of the fans of city rivals Celtic Glasgow. From then on he got the nickname "Judas". Rangers' supporters were also not very pleased with the fact that Johnson was not Protestant; but were able to put up with it, as it bothered Celtic even more.

After two years in which he scored 31 goals in 76 games, he left Glasgow again for England and played for Everton for two years. He then played for the Scottish clubs Heart of Midlothian in Edinburgh and FC Falkirk .

In 1996, at the age of 33, he moved to the recently founded American professional league MLS for the Kansas City Wizards , where he ended his career in 2001.

National team

He made his debut for the Scottish national team in 1984. In 38 international matches, he scored 14 goals. In 1992 he played his last game and announced his retirement from the team. He was also in the squad for the 1990 World Cup in Italy , where he started all three Scots games and converted a penalty against Sweden .

Coaching career

After retiring from active football in 2001, he became Bob Bradley's assistant coach at MetroStars in New York in 2003 . After Bradley was fired after three lost games in the 2005 season, Johnston took over as interim coach and led them to the playoffs. At the end of the season he became the head coach of MetroStars, which from then on called themselves New York Red Bulls after being taken over by the Red Bull group . After nine defeats and only two wins in the 2006 season, he was also fired.

In 2006, Johnston was the coach of the newly formed Canadian soccer club Toronto FC , which played in the MLS for the first time in the 2007 season.

At the beginning of February 2008 he switched to the management of the club. On September 14, 2010 Johnston was dismissed together with coach Preki (Predrag Radosavljević), as the club owners saw no further development of the team.

successes

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Attfield: Toronto FC cleans house . In: The Globe and Mail , September 14, 2009. Retrieved January 11, 2011. 
personal data
SURNAME Johnston, Mo.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johnston, Maurice Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow , Scotland