[1] He also excelled in track and field, setting a record running the fastest mile for a 10-year-old in the world at 5:33.34.
[2] When he was 15, he participated in a soccer camp, where Jack Charlton was a guest coach, who brought him to train with Leeds United, and lived with him.
[3] Over his 13 year career, Ferguson would go on to play for in Canada, the United States and England, playing for the Vancouver Whitecaps, Edmonton Drillers, Burton Albion, Hamilton Steelers, Kitchener Spirit/Kickers and indoor soccer with Buffalo Stallions, Cleveland Force, New York Cosmos, Chicago Sting, and Cleveland Crunch.
[2] Ferguson did not make his first appearance for the Canadian national soccer team until he was 27 years old in a 2–1 win over Trinidad and Tobago in Port of Spain in 1985.
His final cap came in a 0–2 defeat in a March 1991 North American Nations Cup match against the United States in Torrance, California.