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| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Kevin James McKenna | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1980-01-21)21 January 1980 (age 45) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Calgary,Alberta, Canada | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| 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) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 331 | (42) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2000 | Canada U23 | 5 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2000–2012 | Canada | 63 | (11) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2019 | 1. FC Köln II (caretaker) | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Kevin James McKenna (born 21 January 1980) is a Canadian former professionalsoccer player who played as acentre back and current assistant manager ofBundesliga clubUnion Berlin. Occasionally, he also played as acentral midfielder orstriker.
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.
After playing with Calgary Foothills as an amateur, McKenna played three seasons (the first two in the reserves) with GermanBundesliga sideEnergie Cottbus. In the first game of the2000–01 season, McKenna and international teammatePaul Stalteri simultaneously became the first Canadians to play in the German Bundesliga in a match between McKenna's newly promoted Cottbus and Stalteri'sWerder Bremen.[2]
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In 2001, McKenna moved toScottish Premier League teamHearts on loan, playing eight games for theEdinburgh club. After a £300,000 transfer that summer, McKenna was the club's second leading scorer in the2001–02 season with nine goals in 35 games. As a mostly reserve striker in2002–03, McKenna scored six in 41. He also scored five goals in 38 games in2003–04. After falling out of favour at Hearts in 2005, McKenna returned toEnergie Cottbus.[3] He was elected as the club's new captain after the departure of former skipperGregg Berhalter.
In the summer of 2007, McKenna signed a four-year contract with1. FC Köln, dropping down a division to the2. Bundesliga. McKenna made his debut for his new team on 10 August 2007, in a 2–0 away win againstFC St. Pauli. Several weeks later, McKenna scored his first goal for the club on 5 October in a 4–1 home victory overKickers Offenbach. He helped Köln topromotion into the top flight inhis first season with the club.
McKenna scored his first goal in the 2010–11 season in a 4–2 away loss to powerhouseWerder Bremen on 28 August, the other goal scored by teammateLukas 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 toSchalke 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 beatHamburger SV in a thrilling 4–3 away victory.[4]
McKenna made his debut forCanada in a May 2000 friendly match againstTrinidad and Tobago. By November 2009, he has earned a total of 46 caps, scoring nine goals.[5] He has represented Canada in fourFIFA World Cup qualification matches.[6] McKenna has been a regular for theCanadian national team since 2002, when he featured in theCONCACAF Gold Cup as a target man forHolger Osieck's side. McKenna scored three goals, including a brace overHaiti in the first round.
McKenna earned his 50th cap for team Canada in a friendly againstEcuador prior to the2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup, the game ended in a 2–2 home draw atBMO Field.[7] McKenna was named the captain for Canada during the Gold Cup withPaul Stalteri not in the tournament roster.[8]
| No. | Date | Venue | Cap | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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| 1 | 30 May 2000 | Winnipeg Soccer Complex,Winnipeg, Canada | 2 |  Honduras | 2–1 | 2–1 | Friendly |
| 2 | 18 January 2002 | Orange Bowl,Miami, United States | 8 |  Haiti | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2002 CONCACAF Gold Cup |
| 3 | 2–0 | 2–0 | |||||
| 4 | 26 January 2002 | Orange Bowl,Miami, United States | 10 |  Martinique | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2002 CONCACAF Gold Cup |
| 5 | 12 February 2003 | 11 June Stadium,Tripoli, Libya | 14 |  Libya | 1–0 | 4–2 | Friendly |
| 6 | 1 June 2003 | Volkswagen Arena,Wolfsburg, Germany | 16 |  Germany | 1–0 | 1–4 | Friendly |
| 7 | 13 June 2004 | Richardson Stadium,Kingston, Canada | 23 |  Belize | 3–0 | 4–0 | 2006 World Cup qualification |
| 8 | 26 March 2005 | Estádio Cidade de Barcelos,Barcelos, Portugal | 27 |  Portugal | 1–3 | 1–4 | Friendly |
| 9 | 25 July 2005 | Swangard Stadium,Burnaby, Canada | 28 | Honduras | 1–2 | 1–2 | Friendly |
| 10 | 7 September 2010 | Saputo Stadium,Montreal, Canada | 48 | Honduras | 2–1 | 2–1 | Friendly |
| 11 | 29 February 2012 | Tsirio Stadium,Limassol, Cyprus | 56 |  Armenia | 1–0 | 1–3 | Friendly |
After retiring, McKenna started his coaching career as assistant manager for1. FC Köln's U19 squad.[9] He was then, alongsideMarkus Daun, assistant coach under head coachStefan Ruthenbeck on an interim basis 1. FC Köln'sBundesliga team in December 2017,[10] before becoming assistant coach of André Pawlak on the second team of 1. FC Köln in the summer of 2018. After Pawlak was appointed manager for the Bundesliga team in late April 2019, McKenna took over on an interim basis as head coach for the second team in theRegionalliga West.[9] In July 2019, McKenna left the club because he saw no prospect of a position as head coach in the youth area for the foreseeable future.[11]
On 19 September 2019, McKenna was appointed assistant manager of1. FC Kaiserslautern under the new head coachBoris Schommers.[12] In 2021, he returned to Köln as an assistant coach toSteffen Baumgart.[13]
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| G | W | D | L | Win % | ||||
| 1. FC Köln II | 28 April 2019 | 30 June 2019 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 066.67 | [14][15] |
| Total | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 066.67 | — | ||
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