Martin Rennie
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 22 May 1975 | ||
| Place of birth | Thurso, Scotland | ||
| Teams managed | |||
| Years | Team | ||
| 2005 | Cascade Surge | ||
| 2007–2008 | Cleveland City Stars | ||
| 2009–2011 | Carolina RailHawks | ||
| 2011–2013 | Vancouver Whitecaps FC | ||
| 2014–2016 | Seoul E-Land | ||
Martin Rennie is a Scottish football manager.
Born in Thurso, Scotland to Fiona and Cliff Rennie on 22 May 1975, Martin Rennie spent the first 10 years of his life in Bettyhill where his father was a Church of Scotland minister. In 1985, Rennie's father accepted a call to the Old Parish Church, in Larbert and the family moved there. Rennie was schooled at Ladeside Primary, and Larbert High School, at weekends he would watch Falkirk F.C. play, later becoming a ballboy for the team.
Rennie went on to study for a business degree at Glasgow Caledonian University. In his final year, he received a tryout for the Charlotte Eagles but suffered a cruciate ligament injury to his right knee. Returning to Scotland, Rennie continued to play for Scottish Junior Football Association teams Dunipace and Bo'ness whilst working in sales and marketing for Blackbaud. With the money earned from his sales and marketing work, Rennie was able to personally pay for his SFA coaching course costs. Rennie quickly rose through the coaching ranks and attained his UEFA ‘A’ Licence becoming assistant manager at Rosyth F.C. at 26.
In 2003 Rennie was asked by charity Ambassadors Football to embark on a playing tour of Africa, visiting, Mozambique, Sudan and South Africa. The tour comprised players from United States-based teams Charlotte Eagles, Cascade Surge, and Minnesota Thunder, a South Africa international, a Nigeria international and several players from the UK. During the trip, Rennie was offered an opportunity to manage the Cascade Surge.
Rennie took over as Head Coach with the Cascade Surge in Oregon, in 2005. Under him the Premier Development League team reached its best level of success during its existence between 1995 and 2009. In his only season in charge Rennie led the Surge to the North West Division Title, West Coast Championship Final, US Open Cup Qualification and the Fair Play Award. Out of 16 games, the Surge won 12 games, and drew 2. Following this success Rennie had to return to his work with Blackbaud, and began to make plans for full-time work with AIS. In 2006 Rennie accepted an invitation to become the a director of AIS, as well as Head Coach of both USL-2 expansion team, the Cleveland City Stars and youth team Ambassadors FC (both owned by AIS).
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