Kevin McKenna

Kevin McKenna 2010

Kevin James McKenna ( born January 21, 1980 in Calgary, Alberta ) is a Canadian- British football players.

Career

Clubs

From his 15th to 18th year McKenna was in the sports team of the University of Calgary, the Calgary Dinos, active, before moving to Germany joined the football second division side Energie Cottbus in 1998. On 23 April 1999 ( 27th Round ), he made ​​his debut in German professional football when he came off the bench in a 3-0 home victory over SSV Ulm 1846 in the 74th minute for Rudi Vata. He came in two seasons on only three bets. In the ascent of his team in the Bundesliga he was only used twice, his debut was there on 12 August 2000 ( Matchday 1 ) in the 1-3 defeat at Werder Bremen.

From 2001 to 2005, he played 121 times for the Scottish first division club Heart of Midlothian and scored 21 goals.

For the 2005/06 season he returned to Cottbus and contributed ten goals in 34 games again for promotion to the top flight in, in which he then 29 times was used, but remained without a goal. This season, he was a successor to Gregg Berhalter captain of Cottbus. Since the 2007/ 08 season he played for the 1st FC Cologne. On December 13, 2008 ( 17th Round ) succeeded in a 2-1 away win over VfL Bochum his first Bundesliga goal.

His ongoing until June 30, 2014 contract with FC Cologne 1 was not renewed.

National

After seven games for the U -23 he made his debut on 27 May 2000 in the match against Trinidad and Tobago for the Canadian national soccer team, whose captain he was in the meantime.

He was elected to the best eleven of the CONCACAF Gold Cup in 2002.

His most last match he played on October 16, 2012 against Honduras.