Peter Short (footballer)
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Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 27 October 1944 | ||
Place of birth | Liverpool, England | ||
Date of death | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist.[1] | ||
Place of death | Los Angeles, California, U.S.A | ||
Position(s) | Defender, Forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1967 | Philadelphia Spartans | 12 | (4) |
1968 | Cleveland Stokers | 24 | (0) |
1969 | Dallas Tornado | 16 | (6) |
1970–1973 | Rochester Lancers | 75 | (6) |
1974 | Dallas Tornado | 8 | (0) |
1975 | Denver Dynamos | 19 | (3) |
1975 | Vancouver Whitecaps | 1 | (0) |
1976 | Dallas Tornado (indoor) | ||
1976–1977 | Minnesota Kicks | 19 | (1) |
Total | 174 | (20) | |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Peter Short (27 October 1944 - 22 February 1984) was an English professional footballer who played as a defender and a forward. Active in the United States and Canada, Short made over 150 appearances in a career lasting 11 seasons.
Career
Born in Liverpool, Short played professionally in the United States and Canada for the Philadelphia Spartans, the Cleveland Stokers, the Dallas Tornado, the Rochester Lancers, the Denver Dynamos, the Vancouver Whitecaps and the Minnesota Kicks.[2]
Short was shot in the chest and killed during an attempted robbery at his cloth cutting business near the Coliseum in Los Angeles in 1984.[1]
Awards and honors
On December 27, 2014, the Rochester Lancers of the Major Arena Soccer League will induct Short into the Rochester Lancers Wall of Fame as one of Rochester's "soccer pioneers". Short played for the original Rochester Lancers of the North American Soccer League.[3]
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- Denver Dynamos players
- Vancouver Whitecaps (1974–84) players
- Minnesota Kicks players
- National Professional Soccer League (1967) players
- North American Soccer League (1968–84) players
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- Association football defenders
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