Bret Hall

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Bret Hall
Personal information
Date of birth (1956-11-16) November 16, 1956 (age 66)
Place of birth Buffalo, New York, USA
Position(s) Defender / Midfielder
Youth career
Wheaton College
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1979–1983 Chicago Sting 81 (1)
1980–1983 Chicago Sting (indoor) 84 (12)
1983–1984 Phoenix Pride (indoor) 12 (0)
1985 Cleveland Force (indoor) 62 (2)
1985–1986 Chicago Sting (indoor) 43 (1)
1988–1995 Chicago Power (indoor) 162 (6)
Total408(15)
Managerial career
1998 Chicago Stingers
1999–2000 Chicago Sockers
2001–2002 Chicago Fire Reserves
Baylor University
2001 U.S. Women (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Bret Hall is an American soccer coach and former professional player who played in the NASL, Major Indoor Soccer League and National Professional Soccer League. He has coached at the collegiate, professional and national team levels.

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Player

Hall played soccer for Wheaton College, graduating in 1979. The Portland Timbers of the North American Soccer League drafted Hall in the second round of the 1979 NASL Draft. [1] He never played for the Timbers. Instead, he played for the Chicago Sting from 1980 to 1983. In 1981 he became a NASL league champion winning the Soccer Bowl with the Sting, defeating the New York Cosmos in Toronto and bringing the title back to Chicago. In the fall of 1983, he moved to the Cleveland Force of the Major Indoor Soccer League. In 1988, he moved to the Chicago Power of the American Indoor Soccer Association where he was a 1988 First Team All Star and the 1990 Defender of the Year and a First Team All Star. [2]

Coach

In August 1994, Hall became the Director of Coaching for the Chicago Power. In 1998, he was hired by the Chicago Stingers of the USISL. He took the team to the league championship. In 1999, the team was renamed the Sockers and he took them to two more titles before the team folded following the 2000 season. In 2000, he was hired to coach the Indiana Blast, but stepped down a few weeks later without coaching a game. In 2001, he became the head coach of the Chicago Fire Reserves. In those five seasons, he had a 67-21-2 record. Hall currently coaches at Baylor University. [3]

He was inducted into the USL Hall of Fame in 2004. [4]

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References

  1. Portland Timber's Draft Picks Archived February 6, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  2. "The Year in American Soccer - 1990". Archived from the original on January 8, 2009. Retrieved November 29, 2008.
  3. "Bret Hall". Baylor University. Archived from the original on July 7, 2012. Retrieved November 28, 2008.
  4. 2004 USL Hall of Fame Class Announced Archived November 22, 2008, at the Wayback Machine