Nick Stavrou

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Nick Stavrou
Personal information
Full name Nicholas Stavrou
Date of birth (1969-08-26) 26 August 1969 (age 53)
Place of birth Worthing, England
Position(s) Midfielder
College career
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1987–1990 Cleveland State Vikings
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1991–2004 Dallas Sidekicks (Indoor) 292 (199)
2012–2015 Dallas Sidekicks (Indoor) 33 (10)
Managerial career
2004–2006 Prestonwood Christian Lions
2006–2010 Texas Woman's Pioneers (assistant)
2017– Fort Worth Vaqueros
2019– Mesquite Outlaws (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Nicholas Stavrou (born 26 August 1969 in Worthing, England) is an English football midfielder and coach, who played thirteen years of professional indoor soccer with the Dallas Sidekicks. He currently serves as head coach of Fort Worth Vaqueros FC in the National Premier Soccer League and as the assistant coach for the Mesquite Outlaws of the Major Arena Soccer League.

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Player

College

A standout midfielder at Cleveland State University, Stavrou was a 1990 Second Team All-America. [1] A two-time MVP of the Mid-Continent Conference, Stavrou was honored as a defender in 1989 and a midfielder in 1990. The all-time leader in games played at Cleveland State (82), he also ranks fourth among the school's all-time points leaders (112), fourth in goals (46), and tied for ninth in assists (20). In 2002, he was inducted into the school's Athletic Hall of Fame. [2]

Professional

After a stellar college career, Stavrou was selected by the Dallas Sidekicks in the second round of the 1991 Major Indoor Soccer League, (MISL) draft. He played 10 seasons with the team, which played in the MISL, World Indoor Soccer League, Continental Indoor Soccer League (CISL) in 1993, and the Premiere Soccer Alliance (PSA) in 1998. A member of the Dallas Sidekicks MISL championship teams in 1993, 1998 and 2001, he earned second team All-PSA honors in 1998 and second team All-WISL honors in 2000. Stavrou scored 199 goals in 292 games with the Sidekicks from 1991–2004. [3] In November 2012, he began playing for the new Dallas Sidekicks of the Professional Arena Soccer League.Stavrou retired as a player on July 1, 2014. He was named Director of Soccer Operations for the Dallas Sidekicks on the same date. These decisions were announced via a detailed press release on August 11, 2014. He scored his 1st MISL professional goal on November 4, 1989 against St. Louis. He is one of a select group of 8 players too have won 2 professional championships with the sidekicks. [4]

Coach

After his playing career ended, he was a women's soccer assistant coach at Texas Woman's University (TWU) [5] in Denton, Texas, and for youth teams around Dallas.

On 22 July 2019, Stavrou was named to the first-ever coaching staff for the Major Arena Soccer League's Mesquite Outlaws. Stavrou will be working alongside two other former Dallas Sidekicks players, with Tatu as head coach and Sagu as goalkeepers coach. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "1990 All Americans". Archived from the original on 15 June 2011. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
  2. ↑ "CLEVELAND STATE OFFICIAL ATHLETIC SITE - Hall of Fame". Archived from the original on 7 January 2012. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
  3. ↑ "Dallas Sidekicks' Roster Chock Full of Interesting Names | Dallas Morning News". Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 12 June 2013.
  4. ↑ "Dallas Sidekicks".
  5. ↑ http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/drc/sports/college/stories/DRC_TWU_picks_up_0802.d5cd752a.html [ dead link ]
  6. ↑ "Icon Tatu Selected as Mesquite Outlaws Head Coach". MASLSoccer.com. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
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