Mo Johnston
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Maurice John Giblin Johnston | ||
Date of birth | 13 April 1963 | ||
Place of birth | Glasgow, Scotland | ||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1] | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Youth career | |||
Milton Battlefield | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1979–1983 | Partick Thistle | 85 | (41) |
1983–1984 | Watford | 38 | (23) |
1984–1987 | Celtic | 99 | (52) |
1987–1989 |
Nantes | 66 | (22) |
1989–1991 | Rangers | 76 | (31) |
1991–1993 | Everton | 34 | (10) |
1993–1995 | Heart of Midlothian | 35 | (5) |
1995–1996 | Falkirk | 41 | (6) |
1996–2001 | Kansas City Wizards | 149 | (31) |
Total | 623 | (221) | |
International career | |||
1984–1992 |
Scotland | 38 | (14) |
Managerial career | |||
2005–2006 | New York Red Bulls | ||
2007–2008 | Toronto FC | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Maurice John Giblin Johnston (born 13 April 1963) is a Scottish
Johnston won two Scottish league titles with Rangers, scoring 46 goals in 100 games. He later played for
After retiring as a football player in 2001, Johnston went on to coach in MLS. He was most recently the manager and later
Club career
Partick Thistle
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Johnston started his career in 1981 with Partick Thistle and scored 41 goals in two and a half seasons there.
Watford
Johnston then moved on to English club
Celtic
Johnston scored 14 league goals in 27 games during his first season at the club. In 1985–86 he scored 15 goals from 32 Premier Division games as Celtic won the league title. During the 1986–87 season Johnston scored 23 goals from 40 games.
Nantes
Johnston moved on to French club
Rangers
In July 1989, Johnston opted not to return to Celtic (who had recently sold his replacement Frank McAvennie back to West Ham United) and instead joined Graeme Souness's Rangers. From the early 20th century onwards, Catholics had not been knowingly signed by Rangers, nor employed in other prominent roles as an 'unwritten rule'.[5][6][7][8] Johnston was "their first major Roman Catholic signing".[9] He was the highest-profile Catholic to sign for the club since the World War I era, though other Catholics had signed for Rangers before.[5][10] The move angered both Celtic and Rangers supporters. A handful of Rangers fans burned scarves and threatened to hand in season tickets over the signing but attendances held firm while Celtic fans referred to Johnston as Judas.[11][12] Rangers' kitman Jimmy Bell protested by making Johnston arrange his own kit and withholding from him the chocolate bars dispensed to other players until he scored against Celtic.[11] He won over a lot of Rangers fans in November 1989, when he scored a late winning goal in an Old Firm derby match.
Everton
On 18 November 1991, Johnston signed to Everton for £1.5m, forming a three-man strikeforce alongside Tony Cottee and Peter Beardsley. He scored seven goals in 21 league games as Everton finished mid table in the 1991–92 campaign of the First Division. Johnston scored three goals in 13 games as Everton finished 13th in the first season of the new Premier League, losing his place in the first team to new signing Paul Rideout. One of his goals in the 1992-93 season came in a 3-0 away win over Manchester United in the second game of the Premier League season.
Despite the departure of Peter Beardsley to
In October 1993, Johnston was given a free transfer when attempts to sell him failed.[citation needed]
Return to Scottish football
Johnston returned to Scotland with Edinburgh club Hearts, making 31 appearances in his first season and scoring four goals. He found himself out of the team the following season[13][14] and was given another free transfer in February 1995 after a long dispute over the settlement of his contract.[15] Joining Falkirk, he scored one goal in the remainder of that season and five in the next season as Falkirk were relegated from the Scottish Premier Division.
MLS
In 1996 Johnston moved to the United States and
International career
Mo Johnston made his debut with the
He had been expected to make the squad for
He played a part in getting Scotland to
Managerial career
Johnston retired after the 2001 season, and from 2003 to 2005 was an assistant coach to
On 22 August 2006,
Career statistics
International
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Scotland[24]
|
1984 | 6 | 4 |
1985 | 3 | 0 | |
1986 | 3 | 1 | |
1987 | 4 | 0 | |
1988 | 7 | 3 | |
1989 | 7 | 4 | |
1990 | 6 | 2 | |
1991 | 2 | 0 | |
Total | 38 | 14 |
- Scores and results list Scotland's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Johnston goal.
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1 | 28 February 1984 | Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland | Wales | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1984 British Home Championship
|
2 | 12 September 1984 | Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland | Yugoslavia | 5–1 | 6–1 | Friendly
|
3 | 14 November 1984 | Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland | Spain | 1–0 | 3–1 | 1986 FIFA World Cup qualification |
4 | 2–0 | |||||
5 | 12 November 1986 | Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland | Luxembourg | 3–0 | 3–0 | UEFA Euro 1988 qualifying |
6 | 17 February 1988 | Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium, Riyadh , Saudi Arabia |
Saudi Arabia | 1–1 | 2–2 | Friendly |
7 | 14 September 1988 | Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway | Norway | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1990 FIFA World Cup qualification |
8 | 19 October 1988 | Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland | Yugoslavia | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1990 FIFA World Cup qualification |
9 | 8 February 1989 | Tsirion Stadium, Limassol , Cyprus |
Cyprus | 1–0 | 3–2 | 1990 FIFA World Cup qualification |
10 | 8 March 1989 | Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland | France | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1990 FIFA World Cup qualification |
11 | 2–0 | |||||
12 | 26 April 1989 | Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland | Cyprus | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1990 FIFA World Cup qualification |
13 | 19 May 1990 | Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland | Poland | 1–0 | 1–1 | Friendly |
14 | 16 June 1990 | Stadio Luigi Ferraris, Genoa, Italy | Sweden | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1990 FIFA World Cup |
Coaching record
- As of 18 October 2014
Team | From | To | Record | ||||||||
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G | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % | Ref. | |||
MetroStars/NY Red Bulls | 4 October 2005[17] | 26 June 2006[20] | 16 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 21 | 23 | −2 | 31.25 | [25] |
Toronto FC | 22 August 2006[21] | 1 February 2008[22] | 30 | 6 | 7 | 17 | 25 | 49 | −24 | 20.00 | [26] |
Total | 46 | 11 | 14 | 21 | 46 | 72 | −26 | 23.91 | — |
Honours
Watford
- 1983–84
Celtic
Rangers
- Scottish Premier Division: 1989–90, 1990–91
- Scottish League Cup runner-up: 1989–90
Kansas City Wizards
Scotland
Individual
See also
References
- ^ "Mo Johnston". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
- ^ "Toronto FC: Roster: Player Bio". Major League Soccer. Archived from the original on 2 March 2009. Retrieved 27 March 2009.
- ^ a b Attfield, Paul (14 September 2009). "Toronto FC cleans house". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. Retrieved 14 September 2009.
- ^ "Johnston Career Stats". Sporting Heroes. Retrieved 17 July 2010.
- ^ ISBN 9780859765428.
- ISBN 9780745617695.
Historically Rangers have maintained a staunch Protestant and anti-Catholic tradition which includes a ban on signing Catholic players.
- ISBN 9780719023965. Retrieved 18 August 2012.
The conflict in Ireland failed to be the catalyst which swept the religious cobwebs from the Ibrox-based club's terraces and boardroom. One of its managers even had no qualms in the 1970s about urging his players to roar out the loyalist battle-cry 'No Surrender' as they ran up the tunnel at Ibrox.
- ISBN 9781851582242.
For years Rangers have been pilloried for what the majority of people saw as discrimination against one section of the population. Now we have shown that this unwritten policy at Ibrox is over. It's finished. Done with.
- ^ Laing, Allan (11 July 1989). "Ibrox lands double coup with Johnston". The Glasgow Herald. p. 1. Retrieved 18 August 2012.
- ISBN 0-7528-4877-1.
- ^ ISBN 0-85976-542-3.
- ^ McGill, Craig (4 November 2001). "How Mo was sold out by a sports firm". Sunday Mirror. Retrieved 27 March 2009 – via FindArticles.com.
- ^ Alister Nicol (23 September 1994). "BETT ON IT – MO'S ON HIS BIKE; Mo Johnston dropped by Hearts and Jim Bett is in". Daily Record.
- ^ Iain King (11 December 1994). "HEART BREAKER FOR MOJO; pounds 3000 a week star trains with kids!; Mo Johnston has been dropped from the RESERVES and is training with the Tynecastle KIDS". Daily Record.
- ^ John Docherty (1 March 1995). "I'VE WON MY WAR SAYS MOJO; Maurice Johnston blasts Tommy McLean". Daily Record.
- ^ "Wizards Win MLS Title". CBS News. 15 October 2000. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
- ^ a b "MetroStars fire Bradley as coach". USA Today. 4 October 2005. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
- ^ "The Big Interview: Maurice Johnston". The Times. London. 23 April 2006. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
- ^ "Johnston becomes MetroStars boss". BBC Sports. 9 November 2005. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
- ^ a b "New York Red Bulls fire coach Mo Johnston". USA Today. The Associated Press. 27 June 2006. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
- ^ a b Elliot, Josh. "Toronto FC: 8 coaches depart franchise in 8 troubled years". CTV News. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
- ^ a b "Toronto FC make coaching change". CBC Sports. 1 February 2008. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
- ^ Doyle, John (15 June 2007). "Meanwhile in Canada". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
- ^ "Mo Johnston". National Football Teams. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
- ^ "New York RB » Fixtures & Results 2005/2006". Worldfootball.net. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
- ^ "Toronto FC » Fixtures & Results 2006/2007". Worldfootball.net. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
- Glasgow Herald. 27 May 1985. p. 15 – via Google News Archive.
- ^ All-Star Game flashback, 1996 Archived December 28, 2014, at the Wayback Machine at MLSsoccer.com
- ^ All-Star Game flashback, 1997 at MLSsoccer.com
- ^ "1998 MLS All-Star Game". MLSsoccer.com. 2 August 1998. Retrieved 27 July 2023.