Don Tobin

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Don Tobin
Personal information
Date of birth (1955-11-01) 1 November 1955 (age 68)
Place of birth Liverpool, England
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
1970–1971 Everton
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1971–1973 Everton 0 (0)
1973–1976 Rochdale 47 (5)
1976–1977 Witton Albion
1977–1978 Sligo Rovers (4)
1978–1980 California Sunshine 31 (3)
1980–1982 Wichita Wings (indoor) 71 (17)
1981–1983 Carolina Lightnin' 50 (7)
1982–1984 Los Angeles Lazers (indoor) 90 (50)
1984–1987 Canton Invaders (indoor) 115 (58)
1984 Rochester Flash
1985 Tulsa Tornados
1988–1989 Tampa Bay Rowdies 16
1989 Memphis Rogues (indoor) 7 (2)
1990 Orlando Lions
Managerial career
1984–1987 Canton Invaders (assistant)
1989 Memphis Rogues
2000 Tampa Bay Extreme
2007–2014 Tampa Spartans (assistant)
2010 FC Tampa Bay Rowdies (interim assistant)
2012–2019 Florida Tropics WSC [1]
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Don Tobin (1 November 1955) is an English retired footballer who played in leagues including the English Football League, the League of Ireland, the American Soccer League, and Major Indoor Soccer League. Since 1995 he has coached at various levels in the Tampa Bay Area, most often with women's teams.

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Playing career

As a youth, Tobin spent a brief period with the Everton Academy before catching on at age 16 with the First Division senior club, Everton in 1971. From there he moved to Rochdale of the Third Division for three years. He spent one season at Witton Albion and one in Ireland at Sligo Rovers before moving to the United States. While at Rovers he was part of the side that reached the 1977–78 FAI Cup finals.

For many years he spent summers with outdoor teams and winters playing indoor soccer. From 1978 to 1980 he played for the California Sunshine and joined the indoor Wichita Wings of MISL from 1980 to 1982. From 1981 to 1983 he played for the Carolina Lightnin' outdoors and from 1982 to 1984 with Los Angeles Lazers indoors. With a goal and an assist, Tobin was named MVP of the 1981 ASL finals, which Carolina won, 2–1. He would spend the next three indoor seasons with the American Indoor Soccer Association's Canton Invaders, winning AISA titles in 1984–85 and 1985–86. Tobin was an AISA all-star and league MVP in 1985–86 for the Invaders. He had brief hitches outdoors with the Rochester Flash and Tulsa Tornados of the short-lived, United Soccer League. In 1988, he found his way to the Tampa Bay Rowdies, who at the time were playing in the third incarnation of the ASL. Tobin was player-coach for the indoor Memphis Rogues at the start of the 1989–89 season and finished out his playing career with the Orlando Lions in the American Professional Soccer League.

Coaching career

While still a player in Canton he also served as an assistant coach. In 1989–90 he was hired as the head coach of the Memphis Rogues of the AISA. Beginning in 1995, Tobin spent 19 years as the director of coaching, Dunedin Stirling Soccer Club in Dunedin, Florida. While there he also created the Tobin's School of Soccer Science Academy Program. In 2000, he was the coach of the Tampa Bay Extreme of the W-League. He was an assistant coach and technical director at the University of Tampa from 2007 to 2014, and part of the staff of the 2007 NCAA Division II Women's National Championship team. During the 2010 season he was an interim assistant coach for FC Tampa Bay Rowdies of the USSF Division 2 Professional League.

Tobin is presently the director of coaching at Pinellas County United in St. Petersburg, Florida and is a coach with the National Training Center (NTC). Since 2012, he also serves as the head coach of the WPSL team Florida Tropics WSC and holds a USSF "B" License. He and his wife reside in St. Petersburg, Florida and have two children.

Honours

Player

Individual

Assistant coach

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  1. Formerly known as Pinellas County United SC until the 2018 season.