Full name Michael George Findlay Years Team 2010–2011 Canada U20 (assistant) | Place of birth St. Boniface, Manitoba 2008–2009 Canada U17 (assistant) | |
Date of birth (1963-11-06) November 6, 1963 (age 53) | ||
Michael George Findlay (born November 6, 1963) is a Canadian soccer coach who is interim head coach of the Canadian men's national team, having previously served as an assistant under former head coach Benito Floro.
Career
Findlay first became involved with the Canadian men's national soccer programme in 2004, when he served as a coach under Stephen Hart at an U17 national team camp in Burnaby. For the next four years, Findlay served as a coach at camps at every level of Canadian men's programme, from the U15 team to senior team.
He served as an assistant coach in an official FIFA event for the first time in 2009, when he worked under Sean Fleming at the 2009 CONCACAF U-17 Championship. He subsequently served as an assistant under Valério Gazzola at the 2011 CONCACAF U-20 Championship and Phillip Dos Santos at the 2013 Jeux de la Francophonie.
In November 2013, he joined newly-appointed Canadian senior team manager Benito Floro's staff as an assistant. In this capacity, he helped manage the team at the 2015 Gold Cup and in its 2018 World Cup qualification campaign. In 2015, he also served as an assistant for the Canadian U23 team in its 2016 Olympic qualifying campaign, before serving as head coach of that programme the following year for a friendly tour in the Caribbean.
In September 2016, he was announced as interim head coach of the Canadian national team.