Bill Conterio
Personal information | |||
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Full name | William Amedeo Conterio | ||
Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Chicago Falcons | |||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Bill Conterio (born November 29, 1929 in Chicago, Illinois) was a U.S. soccer player who was a member of the U.S. soccer teams at the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics
Conterio graduated from Schurz High School in 1948. He was a muli-sports athlete, lettering in soccer, tennis and wrestling. As captain, he led the Schurz H.S. soccer team to two Chicago City Championships, twice being named as an All State soccer player. He was later inducted into the school's Sports Hall of Fame.[1] He was a member of the U.S. soccer team at the 1952 Summer Olympics, but did not enter the single U.S. game of the tournament. He returned to the Olympics four years later, playing in the one U.S. game.[2] At the time of the 1956 Olympics, he played for the Chicago Falcons in the National Soccer League of Chicago. He later worked for Stalford Chemical Company in Omaha, Nebraska.