Mike Mahoney (footballer)

Last updated

Mike Mahoney
Personal information
Full name Michael Mahoney
Date of birth (1950-10-25) 25 October 1950 (age 73)
Place of birth Bristol, England
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1967–1970 Bristol City 4 (0)
1970–1975 Torquay United 157 (0)
1975–1978 Newcastle United 108 (0)
1979 Chicago Sting 3 (0)
1979–1981 California Surf 25 (0)
1979–1981 California Surf (indoor) 24 (0)
1982–1986 Los Angeles Lazers (indoor) 116 (0)
Total437(0)
Managerial career
1986–1987 Los Angeles Lazers (assistant)
1987 Los Angeles Lazers (interim)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Mike Mahoney is an English retired football goalkeeper who played professionally in England and the United States.

In 1967, Mahoney began his professional career with Bristol City. He saw limited play before being acquired by Torquay United In August 1970. He played for Torquay until March 1975, when his contract was sold to Newcastle United. In November 1978, the Chicago Sting of the North American Soccer League purchased Mahoney's contract from Newcastle United. [1] [2] The Sting sent him to the California Surf halfway through the 1979 season. He played two and a half outdoor and two indoor seasons with the Surf. In 1982, he joined the Los Angeles Lazers of the Major Indoor Soccer League, spending four seasons with them. He retired in spring 1986 and became an assistant coach with the Lazers for the 1986–1987 season. In January 1987, he was named interim head coach after Peter Wall was fired. [3] Following the demise of the Lazers, Mahoney retired. On the 9th of June 2018 it was announced that Mahoney had returned to football in a coaching role at Bristol Manor Farm. [4]

Related Research Articles

Colin Lee is an English football manager and former footballer. He is currently head of football at South Dartmoor Community College in Ashburton, Devon along with Chris Beard.

John Edward Impey is an English former professional football player and manager. As player, he made 461 appearances in the Football League representing Cardiff City, AFC Bournemouth, Torquay United and Exeter City, and spent a season in the North American Soccer League with the Seattle Sounders. As manager, he led Torquay United to promotion from the Football League Fourth Division. He represented England at Schools and Youth level.

Stephen Kinsey is an English former football forward who began his career in 1979 with Manchester City before moving to the United States in 1986. He then played professionally in the Major Indoor Soccer League, American Soccer League and others before retiring in 1997.

Michael Windischmann is an American retired soccer defender who played in both the Major Indoor Soccer League and the American Soccer League. He earned fifty caps with the U.S. national team and was the captain of the U.S. team at the 1990 FIFA World Cup. He is a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Willy Roy</span> American soccer player

Willy Roy is a retired American soccer forward and coach. He played for several teams in the National Professional Soccer League and the North American Soccer League in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the United States national team from 1965 to 1973. He is a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame.

Gregory Stewart Ion is a Canadian retired soccer midfielder.

Elvis Comrie is an English-American former football player and coach. A forward, he played three seasons in the North American Soccer League, one in Major Indoor Soccer League, one in the American Indoor Soccer Association, two in the American Soccer League and one in the American Professional Soccer League. Comrie earned four caps with the U.S. national team in 1984. Comrie worked briefly as a stockbroker and was formerly a college soccer coach, primarily at Holy Cross. He was also the head coach of the Worcester Hydra of the USL Premier Development League in 2012.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Victor Nogueira</span> Mozambique-born American soccer player

Victor Nogueira is a retired American soccer goalkeeper. Nogueira spent six seasons in the North American Soccer League, but gained his greatest recognition in over twenty seasons in three indoor leagues, the Major Indoor Soccer League, National Professional Soccer League and the second Major Indoor Soccer League. He was also a member of the U.S. futsal team which took second place at the 1992 FIFA Futsal World Championship, and he is the father of FC Kansas City and United States forward Casey Loyd. He was elected to the Indoor Soccer Hall of Fame in 2011.

Nigel Walker was an English professional football midfielder. He played in The Football League for six clubs as well as the North American Soccer League and Major Indoor Soccer League. Walker's death, from cancer, at the age of 54 was reported on 2 February 2014. After football, Nigel was a teacher at Greencroft Business and Enterprise Community School.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hubert Birkenmeier</span> German footballer

Hubert Birkenmeier is a retired German professional footballer who played professionally in Germany, the North American Soccer League, Major Indoor Soccer League and American Soccer League. His greatest success came with the New York Cosmos in the NASL.

Stuart Lee is an English former football forward. Lee was born in Manchester, and played professionally in England, Wales and the United States.

Lawrence Adam Michael Abrahams is an English retired professional footballer who played as a striker in England, the United States, and Australia. In a career which lasted from 1977 to 1987, Abrahams played 283 career league games, and scored 142 league goals.

Mark Edward Lindsay is an English retired professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

Tasso Koutsoukos is a retired Canadian soccer player who played professionally in the North American Soccer League, Major Indoor Soccer League and Canadian Soccer League. He also coached in the Montreal Impact in the National Professional Soccer League.

Jorge Espinoza is a Chilean retired professional soccer player who played in the Major Indoor Soccer League and National Professional Soccer League. He also coached at the high school, collegiate and professional levels including two games with the San Jose Clash of Major League Soccer in 1999.

George Fernandez is a retired American soccer defender who played professionally in the Major Indoor Soccer League and National Professional Soccer League. He coached in both the Continental Indoor Soccer League and NPSL and was the 1994 CISL Coach of the Year.

Gary Bernard Collier is an English former professional footballer who played as a central defender. Active in both England and the United States, Collier made over 500 career league appearances.

Gary Hindley is an American soccer coach. He has coached youth soccer, high school, college and professional teams. He won Coach of the Year honors in 1984 in the United Soccer League, 1991 American Professional Soccer League and 1998. He won the 1993-94 National Professional Soccer League championship with the Cleveland Crunch. His overall coaching record in professional, collegiate and scholastic soccer is 433-307-28 (.585).

Waad Hirmez is a retired Iraqi-American football (soccer) player who spent most of his professional career in the North American Soccer League and Major Indoor Soccer League.

Dave Huson is a retired footballer from Jersey who played professionally in the North American Soccer League and Major Indoor Soccer League.

References

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.