Mike Renshaw
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Michael Renshaw | ||
| Date of birth | 28 April 1948 | ||
| Place of birth | Manchester, England | ||
| Playing position | Left Wing | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Blackpool | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| –1968 | Blackpool | 0 | (0) |
| 1968 | Margate | 0 | (0) |
| 1968–1969 | Rhyl | ||
| 1968–1976 | Dallas Tornado | 127 | (20) |
| National team | |||
| 1973 | United States | 2 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1978–1981 | Dallas Tornado (assistant) | ||
| 1981 | Dallas Tornado | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Michael "Mike" Renshaw (born 28 April 1948 in Manchester, England) is a U.S.-English former football left winger. He began as a youth player with Blackpool F.C. before moving to the United States to join the Dallas Tornado of the North American Soccer League in 1968. He also spent time with Margate F.C. and Rhyl F.C. He earned two caps with the U.S. national team in 1973 despite not being a U.S. citizen at the time. Finally, he coached the Dallas Tornado in 1981.
Renshaw grew up in Manchester before signing with Blackpool F.C. He never cracked the first-team line up but played regularly for the youth team against the likes of Manchester United, Liverpool and Everton. In 1967 at age 19, he answered a newspaper advertisement looking for top class young players interested in moving to the United States to play professional soccer. He sufficiently impressed Bob Kap at the trial to be offered a position with the Dallas Tornado of the newly established North American Soccer League. That team started pre-season training in Madrid, Spain in August 1967 before embarking on an unprecedented seven month, twenty-nine game world tour visiting over twenty countries. He gained a starting position with the Tornado during the 1968 season. At the end of the season, the league was in danger of collapsing and Renshaw returned to England where he gained a trial with Margate F.C. He played one game, a Southern Football League Cup tie with Ashford F.C. on 23 December 1968, but decided to return to the north of England. He then moved to League of Wales club Rhyl F.C. for the remainder of the 1968–69 season. He returned to the Tornado in the summer of 1969 and remained with it until he retired in 1976. In 1971, the Tornado won the NASL championship over the Atlanta Chiefs. Renshaw scored the winning goal in the third, and deciding, game of the series, the only outdoor professional championship ever won by a Dallas soccer team.[1] In 1975, he was in the starting line-up for the Dallas Tornado against the New York Cosmo in Peles' first game for New York (a 2–2 tie) later that season he scored against Peles' Cosmos in a 3–2 Tornado win at Texas Stadium. On a personal level, he was a second team All Star in 1970 and an honorable mention in 1971 and 1972.[2] Renshaw was plagued with bad knees for several years and in 1976, doctors advised him that he could no longer play without risking lifelong damage. He took their advice and stopped playing professionally.
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