Dale Baxter

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Dale Baxter
Personnel
birthday September 22, 1961
place of birth Luton ,  England
size 183 cm
position goalkeeper
Juniors
Years station
University of British Columbia
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1980-1981 Toronto Blizzard (Indoor)
1981 Detroit Express
1981 Washington diplomats 1 (0)
1983 Mississauga Croatia
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1979 Canada U18
1980 Canada U-19 / U-20 at least 6 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Dale Baxter (born September 22, 1961 in Luton , England , United Kingdom ) is a retired Canadian football player in the position of goalkeeper . In 1981, the former Canadian talent made his debut for the Washington Diplomats in the North American Soccer League (NASL) and was never used again in top division football.

Career

Dale Baxter was born on September 22, 1961 in the English city of Luton and immigrated to Canada with his family when he was six years old. The family settled in Toronto , where Baxter grew up and appeared, among other things, at the school level as a football player. While studying at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver , Baxter joined the men's soccer team at UBC Thunderbirds , the university's own sports division. During this same time, the native Englishman also made regular appearances in the junior national teams of Canada. Under the coach Barrie Clarke (* 1932), who also emigrated from England , he took part in a training camp for Canadian U-18s in Victoria in September 1979 . The versatile in Canadian association football, Clarke then brought him into the Canadian U-19 and U-20 squad the following year .

With the Canadians he completed the preparation for an international tournament that took place a few days later in June 1980 and subsequently also took part in this very part. The following July he toured with Canada through Europe and completed towards the end of the month to prepare for the subsequent CONCACAF Under-20 Championship . At the finals , Baxter appeared as a regular goalkeeper, played all four group matches in Dallas and was then also in the 3-0 victory over Cuba in the quarter-finals and the narrow elimination on penalties in the semi-finals against the later CONCACAF U-20 champions Mexico in use for the full duration of the game.

At club level, Baxter joined the NASL franchise Toronto Blizzard after graduating , but did not appear in the top North American football league. Instead, he was part of the team at its indoor championship in the 1980/81 season. The Toronto franchise ended this season in second place in the American Conference in the East Division in indoor soccer and with five wins and 13 losses in fourth and thus last place in regular time in the Northern Division , one of five parallel running Relays, in outdoor soccer. However , Baxter hardly had a chance to prevail against the much more experienced goalkeepers within the team ( Tony Chursky , Blagoje Tamindžić or Tom Reynolds ). In 1981, Baxter switched to the NASL Detroit Express franchise , which, after the original Washington Diplomats had ceased their gaming operations after the end of the 1980 game year , also completed the 1981 game year under the name Washington Diplomats , before this franchise finally ceased operations.

On May 9, 1981, the then 19-year-old made his debut in the 3-0 away win over the Tampa Bay Rowdies , when he guarded the goal of his team for the full game. It should be his only appearance in the highest football league in North America. In addition to Jim Messemer , who also played his first and subsequently only NASL game that year, Baxter was only part of the support of the goalkeeper Jim Brown . Not much is known today about his further career; at least in 1983 he was still a member of the Mississauga Croatia club, founded in 1977, which played in the semi-professional Canadian Professional Soccer League (CPSL). After the league had ceased operations after just one year of play, Baxter's trail got lost.

Private

Today Baxter lives with his wife Lee-Anna in Surrey in the province of British Columbia . With her he has two daughters Laura and Jenna-Lee and their son Jordan. His youngest daughter Jenna-Lee (* 1997) was a successful young Canadian soccer player who played in various Canadian national teams. After studying for a year at Oregon State University and serving on the women's soccer team at Oregon State Beavers , the university's own sports department, she studied at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby until 2019 and played for the Simon Fraser Clan 's women's soccer team from 2016 to 2018 . Before her studies, Jenna-Lee Baxter was a member of various youth football teams, including the Guildford Athletic Club , Surrey United SC and Vancouver Whitecaps, and was a player in various provincial teams. After her football career at college, she has been working alongside Annie Hamel as assistant coach of the women's team at Simon Fraser University since around 2019 , after having worked as a youth coach in North Vancouver and Burnaby for several years.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistics of the Washington Diplomats in the game year 1981 (English), accessed on October 25, 2018
  2. ^ Elliot Huntley: The Matador: The Life and Career of Tony Currie . Pitch Publishing, Worthing 2015, ISBN 978-1-78531-048-5 .
  3. ^ Baxter first NCAA statistical champion in women's soccer , accessed October 25, 2018
  4. ↑ Jenna-Lee Baxter on the official Oregon State Beavers website , accessed October 25, 2018
  5. ↑ Jenna-Lee Baxter on the official website of the Simon Fraser Clan , accessed on October 25, 2018
  6. ↑ Jenna-Lee Baxter on the official Vancouver Whitecaps website , accessed on October 25, 2018
  7. ↑ Soccer standout Jenna-lee Baxter of Surrey to continue on coaching path at SFU , accessed July 5, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Baxter, Dale
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Luton , England , UK