Martin Rennie Has History Of Success At Every Stop - 86 Forever
Martin Rennie is not a known quantity. At 36 years old the newly hired Vancouver Whitecaps coach has never played or coached above the second division. For a relatively unproven commodity, though, the hiring of Rennie has so far been greeted with near universal glee in Vancouver.
Maybe that’s not so surprising. Those fans are, after all, familiar with the work Rennie did last year with the Carolina Railhawks. As 86 Forever points out, he has also been successful at every stop along the way:
Skeptics will compare Rennie to the late head coach Teitur Thordarson: both men who had success in the second division but failed to thrive in the first. But Thordarson is over twenty years older than Rennie: Rennie will be the second-youngest coach in MLS behind only Ben Olsen of DC United. Rennie has also been more universally successful in the second division than Thordarson. In three years in Vancouver Thordarson led a 2008 team to a good (but not spectacular) regular season record and a championship, a 2009 team to a lousy regular season record but a timely playoff hot streak, and a 2010 team to both regular season and playoff mediocrity. Rennie's 2010 season with Carolina is superior to anything Thordarson accomplished in Vancouver and 2011 looks to be an even bigger improvement.
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