Aidan Heaney (born 9 August 1969) is an English retired

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player and coach. He played in Major League Soccer (MLS) in 1996 with the

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. He had formerly played in Germany and for the Greensboro Dynamo, where he was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2006. While with the Revolution, Heaney recorded the first

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in club history, on April 20, 1996, in the team's first-ever win, a 1-0 victory over the MetroStars. Heaney was given a

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in the third minute of a match against the

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on 25 May 1996. This stood as the MLS record for fastest ejection from a match for almost thirteen years, until Carlos Johnson established the new mark after being expelled two minutes into a

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1–0 loss to the

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on 23 April 2009.Rusert, Bob. "Osorio pleased with club's mettle in loss," MLSnet.com, Friday, 24 April 2009.
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Bio at UNCW
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