Timothy McCann is a Northern Irish semi-professional footballer, who played on the wing. His career included spells playing for Cliftonville

Cliftonville F.C.

Cliftonville Football & Athletic Club is a semi-professional, Northern Irish football club playing in the IFA Premiership. Founded on 20 September 1879 by John McCredy McAlery in the suburb of Cliftonville in north Belfast, it is the oldest football club in Ireland and celebrated its 130th...

, Glentoran

Glentoran F.C.

Glentoran F.C. is a semi-professional, football club in Northern Ireland. The club was founded in 1882 and plays its home games at the Oval in east Belfast. Club colours are green, red, and black.Glentoran's biggest rivals are Linfield...

 Sligo Rovers

Sligo Rovers F.C.

Sligo Rovers Football Club is a professional Irish football club playing in the Premier Division of the League of Ireland. The club was founded in 1928 and have been in the League of Ireland since 1934. The club is a co-operative venture, owned by the people of Sligo. Sligo Rovers have played at...

  and Ballymena. He retired in December 2007 after suffering a broken knee ligament

Ligament

In anatomy, the term ligament is used to denote any of three types of structures. Most commonly, it refers to fibrous tissue that connects bones to other bones and is also known as articular ligament, articular larua, fibrous ligament, or true ligament.Ligament can also refer to:* Peritoneal...

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Cliftonville

McCann first started playing for Cliftonville F.C.

Cliftonville F.C.

Cliftonville Football & Athletic Club is a semi-professional, Northern Irish football club playing in the IFA Premiership. Founded on 20 September 1879 by John McCredy McAlery in the suburb of Cliftonville in north Belfast, it is the oldest football club in Ireland and celebrated its 130th...

 under Marty Quinn

Marty Quinn

Martin "Marty" Quinn is a former Irish League footballer and a current manager. Quinn is well known for leading Cliftonville to become Irish League champions in 1998, and leading Coleraine to Irish Cup glory in 2003.-Playing career:...

. McCann was one of Cliftonville's star players in the mid 1990s and was a member of the 1998 squad that won the Irish Premiership after 88 years. McCann then left Cliftonville at the end of the legendary season to join East Belfast club, Glentoran.

Glentoran

McCann was signed by Roy Coyle

Roy Coyle

Roy Coyle is a former Northern Ireland international footballer and the most successful manager in the history of the Irish Football League.-Playing career:...

 at the end of 1998. The Glens then won the Irish Premiership in 1999 which made McCann was the first man to win the back to back league trophies in the Irish League. McCann also won the Irish Cup

Irish Cup

For the equivalent tournament in the Republic of Ireland, see FAI Cup.The Irish Cup is the national cup knock-out competition in Northern Irish football. Inaugurated in 1881, it is the fourth oldest national cup competition in the world...

, Irish League Cup and County Antrim Shield

County Antrim Shield

The County Antrim Shield is a football competition in Northern Ireland. The competition is open to senior teams who are members of the North East Ulster Football Association , often plus intermediate teams who...

 with the Glens before having injury problems in the early 2000s. New Glentoran manager Paul Millar

Paul Millar

Paul William Millar is a Northern Irish football player turned manager, currently manager of Larne.As a player, he played in Midfield and attack. He started at Glentoran, moving on to Portadown, before signing with Port Vale in 1988. Three years later he transferred to Cardiff City...

 recalled McCann into the squad after recovering from an injury. Having shown great courage and determination to battle back from a brace of cruciate injuries, he clocked up 661 appearances before retiring following a similar problem in December 2007.

Coaching Career

After the departure of Alan McDonald and George Neill in 2010, McCann rejoined Glentoran as head coach alongside with manager and former team mate Scott Young

Scott Young

Scott Young was a Canadian journalist, sportswriter, novelist and the father of musician Neil Young. Over his career, Young wrote 45 books, including novels and non-fiction for adult and youth audiences.-Early life:...

 and assistant Pete Beaty.