Hector Marinaro (soccer, born 1964)

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Hector Marinaro
Personal information
Full name Hector Luis Marinaro
Date of birth (1964-12-06) December 6, 1964 (age 59)
Place of birth Toronto, Ontario
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
?–1982, 1983 Toronto Italia
1983–1984 Cleveland Force (indoor) 5 (0)
1986–1988 Minnesota Strikers (indoor) 45 (75)
1986–1988 Toronto Blizzard 41 (9)
1988–1989 Los Angeles Lazers (indoor) 44 (47)
1989 Hamilton Steelers 14 (4)
1989 North York Rockets 5 (1)
1993 Toronto Blizzard 27 (7)
1996 Rochester Raging Rhinos 4 (7)
1989–2002 Cleveland Crunch (indoor) 448 (1003)
2002–2004 Cleveland Force (indoor) 85 (96)
International career
1986–1995 Canada 6 (0)
Managerial career
2002–2004 Cleveland Force (assistant)'
2006–2021 John Carroll University
2013–2014 Cleveland Freeze
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Hector Luis Marinaro Jr. (born December 6, 1964) is a Canadian soccer coach and former player who is the men's soccer coach at John Carroll University.

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As a player he was the all-time leader in points and goals in professional indoor soccer, and made 6 appearances for the Canada national team. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Club career

Youth

Marinaro is the son of Hector Marinaro, Sr., a native of Argentina who both played and coached extensively in Canada. [5]

Indoor career

Marinaro returned to Cleveland because of the excellent memories he had of playing his rookie year there. [6]

On June 23, 2004, the Chicago Storm drafted Marinaro with the 16th pick in the MISL expansion draft. However, he made his intentions to retire known to the Storm and on October 11, 2004, the team traded Marinaro to the Cleveland Force in exchange for cash. The Storm did this in order to allow him to retire with the Force, the team with which he began his career.During his 19-year indoor career, Marinaro scored 1,233 goals and added 702 assists for 1,935 points in just 685 games. In the playoffs, he scored another 224 goals and added 96 assists for 320 points in 104 games. Marinaro is the all-time leading in goals (1,457) and points (2,255) in professional indoor soccer. He scored his 1,000th point against his brother Rob, a goalkeeper for the Chicago Power. Hector was a seven-time league MVP the most in any professional sport in the United States. In May 2005, the MISL announced that it would name its annual MVP award the Marinaro Award. [7]

Outdoor career

In addition to his extensive indoor career, Marinaro spent several seasons playing outdoor soccer. In 1986, he played for the Toronto Blizzard of the National Soccer League while his father was an assistant coach with the team. [8] Marinaro remained with the Blizzard for the 1987 Canadian Soccer League season then returned to the Blizzard for the 1993 American Professional Soccer League season. [9] He also had one season with Rochester Raging Rhinos of the A-League in 1996. Marinaro scored seven goals, as the Rhinos fell to the Seattle Sounders in the championship game. [10]

International career

Marinaro also earned six caps with Canada. Marinaro's first game with the national team was a 4–0 win over Indonesia on August 30, 1986, and his last was a 2–1 loss to Chile on October 11, 1995. [11]

Coaching career

In 2002, the Cleveland Force elevated Marinaro to the position of assistant coach in addition to his playing duties. He continued in that role until retiring in 2004. On January 31, 2006, John Carroll University hired Marinaro as the head coach of the men's soccer team. [12]

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References

  1. ↑ "Hector Marinaro will forever be Northeast Ohio soccer icon". news-herald.com.
  2. ↑ "'It Was Who I Was For 15 Years': Hector Marinaro On The Next Generation Of The Cleveland Crunch". specturmnews1.com.
  3. ↑ "Building a Program: Hector Marinaro".
  4. ↑ "THE STORY OF HECTOR MARINARO". inbedwithmaradona.com.
  5. ↑ [ permanent dead link ]
  6. ↑ "Major Indoor Soccer League". Archived from the original on 2004-10-25. Retrieved 2007-11-15.
  7. ↑ "Chicago Storm". November 6, 2004. Archived from the original on 2004-11-06.
  8. ↑ "Soccer". Newspapers.com. The Province. March 20, 1986. p. 17. Retrieved 2020-08-10.
  9. ↑ "APSL 1993 Season". a-leaguearchive.tripod.com.
  10. ↑ "The Year in American Soccer, 1996". August 5, 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-08-05.
  11. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-11-10. Retrieved 2007-11-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  12. ↑ "Hector Marinaro – Head Coach – Staff Directory". John Carroll University Athletics.
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