Cliff Brown (soccer)

Cliff Brown

Personal information
Date of birth	May 23, 1956 (1956-05-23) (age 55)
Place of birth	Valdosta, Georgia, United States
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Youth career
1974-1977	Washington Huskies
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1978-1979	Seattle Sounders	6	(0)
1979-1981	Cleveland Force (indoor)	61	(0)
1981-1983	Wichita Wings (indoor)	12	(0)
1983	Tacoma Stars (indoor)	4	(0)
1983-1984	Kansas City Comets (indoor)
1987	Toledo Pride (indoor)
1989-1992	Wichita Blue
1991	Wichita Wings (indoor)	4	(0)
1992-1993	Tulsa Ambush (indoor)
1993	Oklahoma City Slickers
1994	Wichita Blue
2001-2003	Wichita Warriors (indoor)
Teams managed
1978-1979	Washington Huskies (assistant)
1986	Fort Wayne Flames
1987	Toledo Pride
1988-	Newman University
1998	Shreveport/Bossier Lions
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Cliff Brown (born May 23, 1956 in Valdosta, Georgia) was an American soccer goalkeeper who is currently the head coach of the Newman University soccer team. Brown played in the North American Soccer League, Major Indoor Soccer League, National Professional Soccer League, Lone Star Soccer Alliance and USISL. He also coached professionally as well as collegiately.

Player

While born in Georgia, Brown grew up in Tacoma, Washington. He attended the University of Washington where he played on the men’s soccer team from 1974 to 1977.

In 1978, the Seattle Sounders of the North American Soccer League selected Brown in the third round of the College Draft. He spent most of his two seasons in Seattle with the reserve team, but saw time in six games. In 1979, he signed with the Cleveland Force in the Major Indoor Soccer League. He played 28 games during the 1979-1980 season and another 33 games during the 1980-1981 season.^[1][2] In 1981, he moved to the Wichita Wings. In 1983, he returned to the Pacific Northwest to play for the Tacoma Stars. He was then traded to the Kansas City Comets during the season. In 1986, he signed as a player-coach with the expansion Toledo Pride in the American Indoor Soccer Association after being fired by the Fort Wayne Fever in December 1986. The Pride lasted only until the end of the season before folding. In 1988, was hired as the head coach of Newman University, a position he still holds. Consequently, over the next six years, he tended to play intermittently during the collegiate offseason. In 1989, Brown moved to the Wichita Blue which played in the amateur Heartland Soccer League. In 1990, the team moved to the Lone Star Soccer Alliance and remained in that league until it collapsed following the 1992 season. In February 1991, Brown signed a 15 day contract with Wichita Wings after all of the team's goalkeepers were injured.^[3] He played four games for a 2-2 record. In February 1992, he signed a one game contract with the Tulsa Ambush of the National Professional Soccer League.^[4] In April 1993, he played for the Oklahoma City Slickers in the USISL then returned to the Wichita Blues for the 1994 USISL season. He retired from professional soccer at the end of the season, but continued to play on an amateur basis. In 2001, he joined the Wichita Warriors a semi-pro indoor team.

Coach

Brown gained his first coaching experience while still a player at the University of Washington. In 1978 and 1979, he was an assistant with the team. In 1986, Brown was hired by the Fort Wayne Flames of the American Indoor Soccer Association. The team fired him in December 1986 after he compiled a 2-3 record to start the season.^[5] He was then hired as a player-coach by the Toledo Pride where he finished the 1986-1987 season. In 1998, he coached the Shreveport/Bossier Lions in the USISL. He entered his current coaching position in 1988 when he became the fourth head coach for the Newman University men's soccer team. In 1989, he established the school's women's soccer team.

Brown earned his bachelor of science degree in business from Newman in 1991

References

1. ^ 1979-1980 MISL
2. ^ 1980-1981 MISL
3. ^ BROWN WILL BE IN GOAL AGAIN TODAY The Wichita Eagle (KS) - Sunday, February 24, 1991
4. ^ Salgado-Led Ambush To Greet Harrisburg Tulsa World - Sunday, February 9, 1992
5. ^ HOMER AWARD: FOR DEEDS MOST FOUL Chicago Tribune - Tuesday, December 9, 1986

External links

• NASL/MISL Statistics
• Sounders Player Profile
• Newman University Coaches Profile

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Name	Brown, Cliff
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Date of birth	May 23, 1956
Place of birth	Valdosta, Georgia, United States
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