Brian Pederson

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Brian Pederson
Personal information
Full name Brian Pederson
Date of birth (1981-05-06) May 6, 1981 (age 43)
Place of birth Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
Salem International Tigers
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2003–2004 Sioux Falls Spitfire 16 (1)
2007–2008 Minnesota Thunder 1 (0)
2009– Rochester Thunder 9 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 14 June 2009

Brian Pederson (born May 6, 1981, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota) is an American soccer player who played for Rochester Thunder in the USL Premier Development League.

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Career

College and amateur

Pederson attended Roosevelt High School and played collegiate soccer at Salem International University in West Virginia where he was a three-year captain and was selected to the All-Conference and All-Region teams. He also spent the 2003 and 2004 seasons with the Sioux Falls Spitfire of the USL Premier Development League.

Professional

Pederson signed with the Minnesota Thunder of the USL First Division in 2007, and spent the next two seasons playing with the team, but only made one first team appearance, clocking just 18 minutes of field time.

In 2009 Pederson signed with Minnesota's development team, Rochester Thunder, in their inaugural campaign in the USL Premier Development League. Pederson scored the first goal in Rochester's franchise history on May 9, 2009, in a game against Des Moines Menace. [1]

Personal

Pederson also was the assistant coach at Andover High School in Andover, Minnesota. He is also owner and operator of his own sports soccer company, A-game Soccer, LLC.

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References

  1. ↑ "United Soccer Leagues (USL)". Archived from the original on 2011-06-10. Retrieved 2009-05-12.


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