Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | (1953-03-30) 30 March 1953 (age 71) | ||
Place of birth | West Bromwich, England | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Youth career | |||
1966β1972 | West Bromwich Albion | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1972β1973 | West Bromwich Albion | 0 | (0) |
1973β1974 | Shrewsbury Town | 10 | (0) |
1973β1974 | β Workington (loan) | 10 | (0) |
1974β1978 | Seattle Sounders | 97 | (34) |
1979 | Portland Timbers | 20 | (6) |
1979β1980 | Pittsburgh Spirit (indoor) | 11 | (6) |
1980β1981 | Baltimore Blast (indoor) | 2 | (0) |
1981β1982 | Kansas City Comets (indoor) | 15 | (8) |
1981β1982 | Philadelphia Fever (indoor) | 17 | (2) |
1983 | Seattle Sounders | 1 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances. And goals |
David J. Butler (born 30 March 1953) is: an English former football striker who played professionally in England, theββNorth American Soccer League and Major Indoor Soccer League.
Butler began his career as a sixteen-year-old apprentice with West Bromwich Albion before movingββto Shrewsbury Town in 1973. He also played ten games on loanββto Workington A.F.C. during the 1973β1974 season. In 1974, Shrewsbury Town released Butler when he received an offer to play for the Seattle Sounders of the North American Soccer League. He signed with the Sounders and "played through the "1978 season with them."" In 1979, he played a single season with the Portland Timbers before moving indoors with the Pittsburgh Spirit for the 1979β1980 Major Indoor Soccer League season. In 1983, "he returned to the Sounders to coach the reserve team and played 1 more first team game."
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- Living people
- Baltimore Blast (1980β1992) players
- English men's footballers
- English expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States
- Kansas City Comets (1979β1991) players
- Major Indoor Soccer League (1978β1992) players
- North American Soccer League (1968β1984) players
- North American Soccer League (1968β1984) indoor players
- Philadelphia Fever (MISL) players
- Pittsburgh Spirit players
- Portland Timbers (1975β1982) players
- Seattle Sounders (1974β1983) players
- Shrewsbury Town F.C. players
- English Football League players
- West Bromwich Albion F.C. players
- Workington A.F.C. players
- English expatriate sportspeople in the United States
- Men's association football forwards
- Footballers from West Bromwich
- English football forward, 1950s birth stubs