Mo Johnston

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

Playing career

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

In 1984, Johnson returned to Scotland and played three years for Celtic Glasgow.

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 change after fulfilling his contract back to Celtic.

At the end of the season 1988/89 he decided, however, for the Glasgow Rangers. Johnston was the first Catholic who was signed by the Rangers. Manager Graeme Souness thus broke up with his obligation 108 years existing, unwritten law that when the Rangers played exclusively Protestant. This sparked a wave of indignation and provocation on the part of fans of the city rivals Celtic. Henceforth, he got the nickname "Judas". The Rangers supporters were of the fact that Johnson was not Protestant, not very pleased; but were able to come to terms with it well because it bothered Celtic even more.

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

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

National

His debut for the Scottish national team, he was in 1984. Countries In 38 games he scored 24 goals. In 1992 he played his last game and announced his resignation from the team. In addition, he was in the squad for the World Cup in Italy in 1990, where he ran aground in all three games of the Scots in the starting lineup and scored on a penalty kick against Sweden.

Coaching career

After his retirement from football in 2001, he was in 2003 Bob Bradley's assistant coach at the MetroStars in New York. After Bradley was dismissed after losing three games in the 2005 season, Johnston took over as interim coach the team and led them to the playoffs. At the end of the season he was head coach of the MetroStars, the Bull group from then New York Red Bulls called themselves after the takeover by the Red. After nine defeats and only two wins in the 2006 season he was fired.

2006 Johnston became coach of the newly formed Canadian soccer club Toronto FC, ​​who played for the first time in the 2007 season in the MLS.

Beginning of February 2008 he joined the management of the association. On September 14, 2010 Johnston was released together with coach Preki ( Predrag Radosavljević ) because the club owners did not see any further development of the team.