In 2009, Paul Mariner enters his sixth season as Steve Nicol's top assistant coach. He has helped lead the Revolution to four MLS Eastern Conference Championship games, as well as three MLS Cup championship game appearances since joining the Revs' staff in the spring of 2004.

Born in Bolton, Lancashire, England, Mariner is remembered by world soccer fans as one of the top center forwards in English football in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He earned 35 international caps playing for his country, and led the England attack in the 1982 FIFA World Cup. He is the co-holder for the England National Team record for goal scoring in consecutive games (6).

After starting his professional club career with Plymouth Argyle, Mariner scored 97 goals in eight seasons for Ipswich Town from 1976-84, before playing three seasons with Arsenal FC in London and finishing his English Leagues career with Portsmouth.

Mariner's many honors as a player include winning the 1978 FA Cup Final with Ipswich Town - a game in which he was named Man of the Match despite not being the goal scorer - in the classic 1-0 victory over Arsenal. He was also a key member of the 1981 UEFA Cup-winning Ipswich Town team. He scored for England against France in the 1982 World Cup, and also scored in a qualifying match against Hungary on Nov. 18, 1981, a 1-0 victory at Wembley Stadium that put England through to the 1982 World Cup.

Mariner came to the United States in 1988 to coach the Albany Capitals of the APSL, followed by a stint with the league's San Francisco Bay Blackhawks. Before joining the Revolution, Mariner was an assistant to former Revs forward and current Duke University head men's soccer coach John Kerr, Jr. at Harvard University. Mariner has also served as Technical Director for the FC Greater Boston Bolts, one of the top youth soccer clubs in the U.S.
Mariner has worked as a color commentator on BBC North West broadcasts of the English Premier League and as a World Cup analyst on New Zealand television and ESPN International.

Mariner lives outside of Boston, and has three sons.