Len Renery is a retired English-American professional soccer defender and coach.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | September 11, 1949 | ||
| Place of birth | London, England | ||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1968–1971 | Columbia Lions | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1972 | New Jersey Brewers | ||
| 1973–1974 | New York Cosmos | 31 | (1) |
| 1975 | Baltimore Comets | 20 | (1) |
| 1976 | San Diego Jaws | 15 | (0) |
| 1977 | New York Apollo | 18 | (1) |
| 1978–1979 | California Surf | 40 | (0) |
| 1979–1980 | New York Arrows (indoor) | 7 | (0) |
| 1980 | Detroit Lightning (indoor) | 9 | (4) |
| 1980 | Cleveland Cobras | ||
| 1980–1981 | San Francisco Fog (indoor) | 18 | (3) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1985–1995 | Sacred Heart Preparatory | ||
| 1997–2007 | Menlo College | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Renery moved to the United States when he was 13 years old, lived in Neptune Township, New Jersey and graduated from Neptune High School in 1966, where he was a varsity baseball and soccer player.[1] In 2010, Neptune High School inducted Renery into its Athletics Hall of Fame. [2]
After a prep year at Suffield Academy in Connecticut, Renery entered Columbia University where he played on the men's soccer team from 1968 to 1971.[3] He was a 1969 and 1970 first-team All Ivy.[4] [5] He graduated in 1971 and was inducted into the Columbia University Athletics Hall of Fame in 2015.[6]
In 1972, he played for the expansion New Jersey Brewers of the American Soccer League.[7] He signed with the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League in 1973. Renery finished his career in the Major Indoor Soccer League with the San Francisco Fog in 1981.
Photos, newspaper clippings and team jerseys from his years with the ASL, NASL and MISL can be found at NASLJerseys.com.[8]
Renery coached Sacred Heart Preparatory in Atherton, California from 1985 to 1995.[9] In May 1996, he became head coach of the Menlo College men's team.[10] He spent ten years at Menlo.
References
edit- ^ "A player way ahead of his time", Asbury Park Press, September 23, 1992. Accessed October 14, 2018. "'I had a great time back at Neptune High School and the Jersey Shore,' said Renery, who now runs soccer camps in California. 'I was there in the beginning, I guess. I came to Neptune when I was just 13 and I had already been playing for 10 years.'"
- ^ Renery Acceptance Speech - Neptune High School Hall of Fame induction ceremony
- ^ Columbia Lions men's soccer letterwinners
- ^ "Men's Ivy League Outstanding Performers". Archived from the original on 2008-12-06. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
- ^ Hall of Fame Series: Len Renery ’71CC and Amr Aly ’85CC
- ^ The Columbia University Athletics Hall of Fame
- ^ The Year in American Soccer - 1972
- ^ Len Renery - NASL Jerseys.com
- ^ Knicks' New Coach Has Local Ties
- ^ Sports Shorts