Brad Smith (soccer, born 1965)

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Brad Smith
Personal information
Date of birth (1965-03-15) March 15, 1965 (age 59)
Place of birth Dallas, Texas, United States
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
Culver City High School
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
Rot-Weiss Essen
BVL Remscheid
1990 Los Angeles Heat
1990–1992 Wichita Wings (indoor) 83 (31)
1991 Salt Lake Sting 11 (1)
1991 Tampa Bay Rowdies 5 (0)
1992 London Lasers 16 (3)
1992–1994 Dayton Dynamo (indoor) 71 (73)
1993 Tampa Bay Rowdies 21 (6)
1994 Los Angeles Salsa ? (1)
1994–1996 Baltimore Spirit (indoor) 65 (45)
1996–1997 Cincinnati Silverbacks (indoor) 68 (34)
1998–1999 San Diego Flash 31 (5)
1998–1999 Baltimore Blast (indoor) 22 (8)
1999–2000 Buffalo Blizzard (indoor) 32 (14)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Brad Smith is a retired American soccer forward who played professionally in Germany and the United States, including the Major Indoor Soccer League, National Professional Soccer League and American Professional Soccer League. He never played for Rot-Weiss Essen nor BVL Remscheid. He played for Franz Sales Haus, Herne, Schoppingen, Marl, and Göttingen. The latter four being in the "Oberliga" (third division) at the time. He returned to the United States in June 1990.

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Youth

Smith graduated from Culver City High School where he was an outstanding soccer and football player. Playing as a tailback, Smith was the 1983 Los Angeles Times High School Player of the Year. He was heavily recruited by several collegiate football programs. However, he was also drafted by both the San Diego Sockers of the North American Soccer League and the Cleveland Force of the Major Indoor Soccer League. [1] Smith chose to neither sign with an American team nor attend college, but moved to Germany where he pursued a professional soccer career.

Professional

Smith spent six years in the German 2. Bundesliga and 3. Liga playing for Rot-Weiss Essen and BVL Remscheid. In 1989, he returned to the Los Angeles area. In 1990, Smith played for the Los Angeles Heat of the American Professional Soccer League (APSL). [2] That fall, he signed as a free agent with the Wichita Wings of the Major Indoor Soccer League where he played for two seasons. During the summer of 1991, Smith returned to the outdoor game, playing for the Salt Lake Sting and the Tampa Bay Rowdies of the APSL. [3] With the collapse of the MISL and the Wichita Wings in 1992, Smith moved to the Dayton Dynamo of the National Professional Soccer League. In 1993, he returned to the Rowdies for the 1993 APSL season. [4] In 1994, he played for the Los Angeles Salsa, which finished runner up to the Colorado Foxes. [5] On November 1, 1994, the Baltimore Spirit purchased Smith's contract from the Dayton Dynamo. In October 1996, the Spirit released Smith and he signed as a free agent with the Cincinnati Silverbacks. [6] The Silverbacks folded at the end of the season. In 1998, Smith again played outdoors, this time with the San Diego Flash of the USISL A-League, returning to the Flash again in 1999. On August 13, 1998, the Baltimore Blast selected Smith in the NPSL dispersal draft. [7] In November 1999, the Blast sent Smith to the Buffalo Blizzard in exchange for future considerations. He suffered from several injuries before being waived in November 2000. He retired and entered the financial career field.

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References

  1. ↑ Brown, Doug. "Spirit's Smith stirs old work ethic". baltimoresun.com.
  2. ↑ "WSL 1990 Season". a-leaguearchive.tripod.com.
  3. ↑ "APSL 1991 Season". a-leaguearchive.tripod.com.
  4. ↑ "APSL 1993 Season". a-leaguearchive.tripod.com.
  5. ↑ "APSL 1994 Season". a-leaguearchive.tripod.com.
  6. ↑ Brown, Doug. "When Silverbacks face Spirit there will be scores to settle McIntosh and Smith left Baltimore on sour notes; Indoor Soccer; NPSL notebook". baltimoresun.com.
  7. ↑ NPSL Transactions Archived 2011-05-24 at the Wayback Machine
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