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Kevin McKenna
Personal information
Full name	Kevin James McKenna
Date of birth	January 21, 1980 (1980-01-21) (age 29)
Place of birth	Calgary, Canada
Height	1.89 m (6 ft 2+1⁄2 in)
Playing position	defender
Club information
Current club	1. FC Köln
Number	23
Youth career
0000–1995 1995–1998	Calgary Foothills Calgary Dinos
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1998–2001 2001–2005 2005–2007 2007–	Energie Cottbus Heart of Midlothian Energie Cottbus Köln	005 0(0) 122 (21) 063 (10) 054 0(3)
National team2
2000–	Canada	046 0(9)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20 July 2009. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 20 November 2009. * Appearances (Goals)

Kevin James McKenna (born 21 January 1980 in Calgary) is a Canadian professional football (soccer) player of Scottish descent who currently plays for 1. FC Köln in the German Bundesliga. He is a defender who also plays at times as a midfielder or forward.

Club career

Energie Cottbus

After playing with Calgary Foothills as an amateur, McKenna played three seasons (the first two in the reserves) with German Bundesliga side Energie Cottbus. On the first game of the 2000-2001 season, McKenna and international teammate Paul Stalteri simultaneously became the first Canadians to play in the German Bundesliga in a match between McKenna's newly-promoted Cottbus and Stalteri's Werder Bremen.^[1].

Hearts

McKenna moved to Scottish Premier League team Hearts in 2001 on loan, playing 8 games for the Edinburgh club. After a £300,000 transfer that summer, McKenna was the club's second leading scorer in the 2001-02 season with 9 goals in 35 games. As a mostly reserve striker in 2002-03, McKenna scored 6 in 41. He also scored 5 goals in 38 games in 2003-04. After falling out of favour at Hearts in 2005, McKenna returned to Energie Cottbus. He was elected as the club's new captain after the departure of former skipper Gregg Berhalter.

FC Köln

In the summer of 2007, McKenna signed a 4-year contract with 1. FC Köln, dropping down a division to the German 2nd Division. He helped his new side to promotion into the top flight in his first season with the club.

International career

McKenna made his debut for Canada in a May 2000 friendly match against Trinidad and Tobago. By November 2009, he has earned a total of 46 caps, scoring 9 goals.^[2] He has represented Canada in 4 FIFA World Cup qualification matches^[3]. McKenna has been a regular for the Canadian national team since 2002, when he featured in the CONCACAF Gold Cup as a target man for Holger Osieck's side. McKenna scored 3 goals, including a brace over Haiti in the first round.

International goals

#	Date	City	Opponent	Result	Competition
1.	May 30, 2000	Winnipeg, Canada	Honduras	3–1	Friendly
2.	Jan 18, 2002	Miami, USA	Haiti	2–0	2002 CONCACAF Gold Cup
3.	Jan 18, 2002	Miami, USA	Haiti	2–0	2002 CONCACAF Gold Cup
4.	Jan 26, 2002	Miami, USA	Martinique	1-1	2002 CONCACAF Gold Cup
5.	Feb 12, 2003	Tripoli, Libya	Libya	4-2	Friendly
6.	Jun 1, 2003	Wolfsburg, Germany	Germany	1-4	Friendly
7.	Jun 13, 2004	Kingston, Canada	Belize	4-0	2006 World Cup Qualification
8.	Mar 26, 2005	Barcelos, Portugal	Portugal	1-4	Friendly
9.	Jul 25, 2005	Burnaby, Canada	Honduras	1-2	Friendly

Honours

Individual

• CONCACAF Gold Cup Best XI: 2002

Club

1. FC Köln

• 2nd Bundesliga:
  • Third place: 2007

Country

Canada

• CONCACAF Gold Cup:
  • Third place: 2002

References

External links

• Player profile - Canada Soccer
• Career stats - National Football Teams

Canada squads Canada squad – 2001 FIFA Confederations Cup 1 Forrest • 2 Clarke • 3 Watson • 4 Menezes • 5 de Vos • 6 Bent • 7 Stalteri • 8 Dasovic • 9 Corazzin • 10 Xausa • 11 Brennan • 12 Onstad • 13 Fletcher • 14 Imhof • 15 Hastings • 16 Kusch • 17 de Rosario • 18 Nsaliwa • 19 Peschisolido • 20 McKenna • 21 Bircham • 22 Franks • Coach: Osieck Canada squad – 2002 CONCACAF Gold Cup Third Place 1 Hirschfeld • 3 Rogers • 4 Menezes • 5 de Vos • 6 Bent • 7 Stalteri • 8 Dasovic • 10 Xausa • 11 Brennan • 13 Fletcher • 14 Imhof • 15 Hastings • 16 de Guzman • 17 De Rosario • 18 Nsaliwa • 19 Pozniak • 20 McKenna • 23 Stamatopoulos • Coach: Osieck Canada squad – 2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup 1 Onstad • 2 Fenwick • 3 Hastings • 4 Pizzolitto • 5 de Vos • 6 Bent • 7 Stalteri • 8 Imhof • 9 Corazzin • 10 McKenna • 11 Nash • 12 Dasovic • 13 Xausa • 14 Hutchinson • 15 Cañizalez • 16 Kusch • 17 Pozniak • 22 Hirschfeld • Coach: Osieck Canada squad – 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup 1 Sutton • 2 Braz • 3 Pozniak • 4 McKenna • 5 Gervais • 6 Bernier • 7 Hume • 8 Serioux • 9 Gerba • 10 Occean • 11 Brennan • 12 Grande • 13 Hutchinson • 14 De Rosario • 15 Simpson • 16 Leduc • 17 Peters • 18 Dodds • 19 Franks • Coach: Yallop Canada squad – 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup 1 Sutton • 2 Cann • 3 Klukowski • 4 Hainault • 5 McKenna • 6 de Guzman • 7 Stalteri • 8 de Jong • 9 Gerba • 10 Johnson • 11 Hastings • 12 Nakajima • 13 Hutchinson • 14 Jakovic • 15 Simpson • 16 Jackson • 17 Peters • 18 Wagenaar • 19 Harmse • 20 Bernier • 21 Pozniak • 22 Stamatopoulos • 23 Gbeke • Coach: Hart