John Catliff

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John Catliff
Personal information
Full name John Terence Catliff
Date of birth (1965-01-08) 8 January 1965 (age 59)
Place of birth Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
Kerrisdale
College career
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1983–1986 Harvard Crimson (34)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1987 Calgary Kickers 19 (6)
1988–1994 Vancouver 86ers 147 (79)
Total147(79)
International career‡
1984–1987 Canada U23 5 (0)
1984–1994 Canada 45 (18)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 25 June 2009
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 25 June 2009

John Terence Catliff [1] (born 8 January 1965) is a Canadian former professional soccer player, who played as a striker. He retired ranked second all-time on the Canadian national team with 18 international "A" goals between 1984 and 1994. [2]

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In 2012 as part of the Canadian Soccer Association's centennial celebration, he was named to the all-time Canada XI men's team. [3]

Club career

Catliff was selected to the All-Ivy League First team as a forward in 1983, 1984, and 1986 while playing for the Harvard Crimson. He was also named to the All-American First Team in 1986. [4] Catliff ended his college career with the Crimson with a total of 34 goals and 15 assists. [5]

Catliff was a Canadian Soccer League star, scoring the second most goals of anyone in the League's six-year history with 69 goals in total. [6] He was a league season scoring champion in 1988 with 22 goals [7] and in 1990 with 19 goals. [8] He began his CSL career in 1987 playing for the League's inaugural champions, the Calgary Kickers. [9] He then spent the next six seasons with the Vancouver 86ers, who became the CSL champions in four consecutive seasons from 1988 through 1991. Ligament injuries to both knees forced him to retire from professional play in 1994 after two years on the 86ers in the American Professional Soccer League.

International career

Catliff was a member of the quarter-finalist Canadian national team at the 1984 Summer Olympics while still playing at Harvard. He was just 19 years old when he made his international "A" debut for Canada in a July 1984 friendly match against Chile in Edmonton. He made 60 international appearances across 11 years from 1984 to 1994 with Canada Soccer's Men's National Team, including 45 international "A" appearances and 18 international "A" goals. [2]

He represented Canada in 12 FIFA World Cup qualification matches. [10] He suffered a serious knee injury in a 1986 World Cup qualifying match away to Honduras. [11] His replacement, George Pakos, scored the only goal in a crucial 1–0 victory. [12] Recovering from injury, he was not named to Canada's roster for the 1986 World Cup, Canada's only appearance until the 2022 World Cup.

His final international game came in June 1994 in a friendly match against the Netherlands. [2]

International "A" goals

Scores and results list Canada's goal tally first.
No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
19 June 1985 Gwangju Mudeung Stadium, Gwangju, South KoreaFlag of Iraq (1963-1991); Flag of Syria (1963-1972).svg  Iraq 1–01–6 President's Cup
22 October 1987 Estadio Nacional, Tegucigalpa, HondurasFlag of Honduras.svg  Honduras 1–01–1 Friendly match
35 April 1988 National Stadium, Kingston, JamaicaFlag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica 1–04–0 Friendly match
42–0
53–0
614 April 1988 Swangard Stadium, Burnaby, CanadaFlag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 1–01–1 Friendly match
72 October 1988 Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad and TobagoFlag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg  Trinidad and Tobago 1–12–1 Friendly match
813 May 1990Swangard Stadium, Burnaby, CanadaFlag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 1–12–1 North American Soccer Championship
92–1
102 April 1992 Royal Athletic Park, Victoria, CanadaFlag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1–05–2 Friendly match
112–0
1220 May 1992 Varsity Stadium, Toronto, CanadaFlag of Scotland.svg  Scotland 1–11–3 Friendly match
134 March 1993 LeBard Stadium, Costa Mesa, United StatesFlag of the United States.svg  United States 2–12–2 Friendly match
1411 March 1993Royal Athletic Park, Victoria, CanadaFlag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 1–02–0 Friendly match
154 April 1993Estadio Nacional, Tegucigalpa, HondurasFlag of Honduras.svg  Honduras 1–02–2 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification
1611 April 1993Swangard Stadium, Burnaby, CanadaFlag of El Salvador.svg  El Salvador 2–02–0 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification
1718 April 1993Swangard Stadium, Burnaby, CanadaFlag of Honduras.svg  Honduras 3–13–1 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification
182 May 1993 Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador, El SalvadorFlag of El Salvador.svg  El Salvador 1–02–1 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification

Additional international goals

Scores and results list Canada's goal tally first.
No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
*23 June 1984Provincial Stadium, Guangzhou, Canton, ChinaFlag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria 1–13–1Great Wall Championship
*3–1
*25 June 1984Workers Stadium, Beijing, ChinaFlag of the Republic of the Congo.svg  Congo 2–02–0Great Wall Championship
*30 June 1984Tianjin Garden Stadium, Tianjin, ChinaFlag of Poland.svg  Poland U-211–02–5Great Wall Championship
*2–1
*26 March 1988 Lima, PeruFlag of Peru (state).svg  Peru U-19 & Seniors3–13–1 Friendly match
*8 July 1988Windsor Stadium, Windsor, ON, CANFlag of Italy.svg  Italy Amateurs1–01–0 Friendly match
*6 May 1990Swangard Stadium, Burnaby, CanadaFlag of the United States.svg  United States "B"1–01–0 North American Soccer Championship

Personal life

Catliff recently worked as global Vice President of Sales with Helly Hansen outdoor apparel company but now works with Firstar Sports. [13] He lives with his wife Sarah and his three soccer loving sons, Brendan (born 1994), and Jamie (born 1998), and Andrew Catliff (born 1996) John was the team Coach of the Vancouver Football Club Under 14 boys, where his son Jamie played. [14] Catliff is an Honoured member of The Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame. [15]

Honours

1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991
1988, 1990

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  3. ↑ "Association announces All Time Canada Men's XI Canadasoccer.com". Archived from the original on 26 June 2014. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
  4. ↑ Hall of Fame Class of 2003 Archived 25 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine – Varsity Club Harvard
  5. ↑ "Catliff Named All-America". thecrimson.com.
  6. ↑ "Canada Soccer". canadasoccer.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  7. ↑ "The Year in American Soccer – 1988". Archived from the original on 10 April 2009. Retrieved 25 June 2009.
  8. ↑ "The Year in American Soccer, 1990". Archived from the original on 8 January 2009. Retrieved 25 June 2009.
  9. ↑ "John Catliff soccer statistics on StatsCrew.com".
  10. ↑ Record at FIFA Tournaments – FIFA
  11. ↑ "John T. Catliff '86". harvardvarsityclub.org. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
  12. ↑ "Canada v Honduras, 25 August 1985". 11v11.com. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
  13. ↑ Business no sweat for ex-soccer pro Catliff – Business Edge
  14. ↑ Vancouver FC – Club Contacts
  15. ↑ This Week in Canadian Soccer
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