Len Renery

Len C. Renery
Personal information
Date of birth (1949-09-11) September 11, 1949
Place of birth London, England
Playing position 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)
Teams managed
1985–1995 Sacred Heart Preparatory
1997–2007 Menlo College
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Len Renery is a retired English-American professional soccer defender and coach.

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.

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