Jeff Cacciatore

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Jeff Cacciatore
Personal information
Date of birth (1958-09-05) September 5, 1958 (age 64)
Place of birth St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Height 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
1976–1979 SIU Edwardsville Cougars
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1980 Fort Lauderdale Strikers 15 (1)
1979–1981 Fort Lauderdale Strikers (indoor) 24 (8)
1981–1987 St. Louis Steamers (indoor) 228 (85)
Total267(94)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jeff Cacciatore is a retired American soccer forward who played professionally in the North American Soccer League and the Major Indoor Soccer League. Cacciatore was elected into the Saint Louis Soccer Hall of Fame in 2013.

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Youth

In 1976, Cacciatore, younger brother of Steve Cacciatore, graduated from St. Louis University High School. [1] He attended Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, playing on the men's soccer team from 1976 to 1979. In his last season, the team won the 1979 NCAA Men's Division I Soccer Championship. On October 24, 2009, SIUE inducted Cacciatore into the school's Athletic Hall of Fame. [2]

Professional

In the fall of 1979, Cacciatore signed with the Fort Lauderdale Strikers of the North American Soccer League. He played two indoor and one outdoor season with the Strikers. He was a member of the 1980 Soccer Bowl runner-up Strikers team that fell to the New York Cosmos 3–0 in the final.

He then moved to the St. Louis Steamers of the Major Indoor Soccer League in the fall of 1981. He played six season before being released and retiring in 1987.

Cacciatore coaches the Whitfield School girls' soccer team and all levels of boys. Cacciatore also teaches at Whitfield School, where he's taught science for Eight Graders since 1991.

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