30 Facts About Mo Johnston

Maurice John Giblin Johnston was born on 13 April 1963 and is a Scottish football player and coach.

Mo Johnston, who played as a forward, started his senior football career with Partick Thistle in 1981.

Mo Johnston moved to Watford in 1983, where he scored 23 league goals and helped them reach the 1984 FA Cup Final.

Mo Johnston won two Scottish league titles with Rangers, scoring 46 goals in 100 games.

Mo Johnston later played for Everton, Hearts, Falkirk and American Major League Soccer side Kansas City Wizards.

Mo Johnston received his first international cap for Scotland in 1984, when he was at Watford.

Mo Johnston scored 14 goals in 38 appearances for Scotland, including one at the 1990 World Cup.

Mo Johnston was most recently the manager and later Director of Soccer at MLS club Toronto FC before he parted company with them on 14 September 2010.

Mo Johnston started his career in 1981 with Partick Thistle and scored 41 goals in two and a half seasons there.

Mo Johnston's arrival revived their season as they recovered well to finish mid table, as he scored 20 goals in just 29 league games.

Mo Johnston scored 14 league goals in 27 games during his first season at the club.

Mo Johnston moved on to French club Nantes in 1987 and scored 22 goals in two seasons there.

In July 1989, Mo Johnston opted not to return to Celtic and instead joined Graeme Souness's Rangers.

Mo Johnston was the highest-profile Catholic to sign for the club since the World War I era, though other Catholics had signed for Rangers before.

Rangers' kitman Jimmy Bell protested by making Mo Johnston arrange his own kit and withholding from him the chocolate bars dispensed to other players until he scored against Celtic.

Mo Johnston won over a lot of Rangers fans in November 1989, when he scored a late winning goal in an Old Firm derby match.

Mo Johnston scored three goals in 13 games as Everton finished 13th in the first season of the new Premier League.

In October 1993, Mo Johnston was given a free transfer when attempts to sell him failed.

Mo Johnston returned to Scotland with Edinburgh club Hearts, making 31 appearances in his first season and scoring four goals.

Mo Johnston found himself out of the team the following season and was given another free transfer in February 1995 after a long dispute over the settlement of his contract.

In 1996 Mo Johnston moved to the United States and Major League Soccer, signing with the Kansas City Wiz.

Mo Johnston scored 31 goals in 149 games for the club, adding a goal in 15 playoff games.

Mo Johnston was part of the Wizards team that won the MLS Cup in 2000.

Mo Johnston made his debut with the Scottish national team in 1984 and played regularly under manager Andy Roxburgh following his appointment in July 1986.

Mo Johnston had been expected to make the squad for Mexico 86 but was dropped by Alex Ferguson after a late night incident during Scotland's preparations for their play-off against Australia in November 1985, in which Johnston had disturbed a member of the coaching staff in his hotel room.

Mo Johnston played a part in getting Scotland to Italia 90 but retired from international competition after their early elimination.

Mo Johnston briefly returned to the national side team for several Euro qualifiers in late 1991 but got injured against Switzerland and finally, in 1992 after scoring 14 goals in 38 caps, permanently retired from the national team.

Mo Johnston was in the starting lineup for all three of Scotland's matches in the 1990 World Cup, scoring a penalty kick against Sweden.

Mo Johnston retired after the 2001 season, and from 2003 to 2005 was an assistant coach to Bob Bradley for the MetroStars.

Mo Johnston earned himself the name "Trader Mo" because in the first half of the first season alone he had traded 9 players.