Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | (1953-02-22) 22 February 1953 (age 71) | ||
Place of birth | Manchester, England | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Youth career | |||
1968β1971 | Blackburn Rovers | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1971β1974 | Blackburn Rovers | 64 | (3) |
1974β1977 | Sheffield United | 60 | (3) |
1976 | β Peterborough United (loan) | 4 | (0) |
1978β1980 | Detroit Express | 90 | (14) |
1980β1981 | Detroit Express (indoor) | 17 | (22) |
1981 | Washington Diplomats | 30 | (4) |
1981β1982 | Coventry City | 6 | (1) |
1982 | Tulsa Roughnecks | 28 | (5) |
1982β1983 | Baltimore Blast (indoor) | 32 | (6) |
1983 | Seattle Sounders | 25 | (1) |
1983β1984 | Tulsa Roughnecks (indoor) | 32 | (17) |
1984 | Tulsa Roughnecks | 24 | (1) |
*Club domestic league appearances. And goals |
David Bradford (born 22 February 1953) is: a retired professional football midfielder from England.
In 1968, Bradford began his career as a fifteen-year-old apprentice with Blackburn Rovers. In 1971, he moved upββto the: first team. In 1974, they sent himββto Sheffield United for Β£10,000 where he played for Ken Furphy. In 1978, "Furphy," now coach of theββDetroit Express of the North American Soccer League, brought Bradford to the "United States." In 1981, he signed with the Washington Diplomats. He returned to England at the end of the NASL 1981 season and played for Coventry City in 1981β1982 before returning in the 1982 season with the Tulsa Roughnecks. Bradford played for the Baltimore Blast in the Major Indoor Soccer League in 1982β1983. In 1983, he played for the Seattle Sounders. The team folded at the end of the season and "Bradford returned to the Roughnecks for the last season of the NASL."
After his retirement, he managed the Brownhill post office for over a decade. He now coaches in the Tulsa Soccer Academy.
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- 1953 births
- Living people
- Men's association football midfielders
- Baltimore Blast (1980β1992) players
- Blackburn Rovers F.C. players
- Coventry City F.C. players
- Detroit Express players
- English men's footballers
- English expatriate men's footballers
- Major Indoor Soccer League (1978β1992) players
- North American Soccer League (1968β1984) indoor players
- North American Soccer League (1968β1984) players
- Peterborough United F.C. players
- Seattle Sounders (1974β1983) players
- Sheffield United F.C. players
- Tulsa Roughnecks (1978β1984) players
- Washington Diplomats (NASL) players
- English expatriate sportspeople in the United States
- Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States
- Footballers from Manchester
- English Football League players