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Martin Nash

IIn this interview, RedNation and Martin discuss the Ottawa Fury and their inaugural year in the North American Soccer League, his move from Vancouver to Ottawa and joining the Fury staff as an Assistant Coach and his upcoming induction into the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame in the Team of Distinction category along with his teammates on the 2000 CONCACAF GOLD CUP Winning Canadian National Team.



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Best known for his 10 years playing with Whitecaps FC, Nash’s professional career spanned more than 16 years in Canada, England and the United States along with 38 caps at the senior level representing Canada.



Nash announced his retirement from professional soccer in October 2010 and remained with Whitecaps FC as a coach in their Youth Academy and as a first team scout. He then served as an assistant coach with the Whitecaps MLS Reserve team, their PDL team as well as their U16 and U18 squads.



Recently, he served as the head coach of the BC Provincial team that captured silver at the Canada Games as well as running the North Vancouver Football Club Academy. Nash is the holder of a National A License. Most recently, Nash was named the assistant coach of the Ottawa Fury on October 18, 2013 for their.



Born in Regina, Nash was raised in Victoria and is the product of the Lower Vancouver Island Metro Selects that helped launch his professional career with Whitecaps FC (then known as Vancouver 86ers) at the age of 19

in 1995. In his second professional season he was named to the All-A-League team before spending several years jumping back and forth across the Atlantic where he featured with Stockport County, Chester City and Macclesfield Town with stints with Vancouver and Rochester in between.



The central midfielder spent 2003 with the Montreal Impact before returning to the Whitecaps in 2004 where he played out the duration of his career finishing as the club’s seventh all-time leader in points with 110 – this includes 31 goals (15th all-time) and 48 assists (third all-time). In 16 professional seasons, Nash would score 45 goals and record 74 assists in 421 total appearances collecting four league championships – two with the Rochester Rhinos (2000 and 2001) and two with the Vancouver Whitecaps (2006 and 2008).



After appearing for his country at the U-20 and U-23 Olympic level, he made his international debut for the senior team in a FIFA World Cup qualifier against El Salvador on April 6, 1997. Nash would go on to earn 38 caps, scoring twice and helped lead Canada to the CONCACAF Gold Cup title in 2000. His last international appearance came in 2008.