Larry McPhail

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Larry McPhail
Personnel
Surname Larry Lee McPhail Junior
birthday August 27, 1968
place of birth Englewood , Colorado ,  USA
size 188 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1983-1986 Lloyd V. Berkner High School
1986-1989 Southern Methodist University
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1989-1990 Richardson Rockets (indoor)
1990 Colorado Foxes
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
~ 1985 ~ USA U-17
1 Only league games are given.

Larry Lee McPhail junior (born August 27, 1968 in Englewood , Colorado ) is an American former football player in the position of a striker .

Towards the end of his studies he appeared briefly as a professional football player before he retired from active competitive sports in order to concentrate on his professional career.

Career

Larry McPhail was born on August 27, 1968 in the town of Englewood, a south-western suburb of Denver . He received most of his schooling in Texas , where he attended the Lloyd V. Berkner High School in Richardson , founded in 1969, from 1983 to 1986 . Even here he was considered a football talent and was therefore sent to the People's Republic of China in 1985 as an American U-17 national player for the 1985 U-16 World Cup . Subsequently, at the end of July and beginning of August 1985, he was used in all three games in his home country and was eliminated with the team in the group phase as third in Group A from the current tournament. In the 2-1 win over their colleagues from Bolivia in the second game, the only victory for the Americans, McPhail scored the 1-1 equalizer in the 51st minute of the game. In addition to various successes and awards at high school, he was recognized as one of 45 players nationwide as one of 45 players in his senior year there as a Parade Magazine High School All-American . In his final year at high school, he no longer appeared for the local soccer team, but played for a local youth training club. As one of 16 Parade Magazine All-Americans , he was called up this year in the US Junior National Team (19 years and under) trained by Jay Miller .

After graduating from high school, his career path brought him to Southern Methodist University in University Park , Texas. In addition to his business studies there, he was also a member of the men's soccer team of the University Sports Department Southern Methodist Mustangs . From 1986 to 1989, McPhail was Letterman four times in a row . During his active time, the SMU regularly made it into the eighth and in some seasons even into the quarter-finals of the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship . With ten goals, McPhail led the team's internal goalscorer list in the 1987 game year. He did the same the following year alongside Dwayne Pfeil and Scott Blankenship, when the three came up with five hits each. Also in 1989, McPhail was his team's top scorer with eleven goals scored. In that year he also led the internal goal assists list with eleven assists and with 33 scorer points was the SMU player with the most scorer points in 1989. A year earlier he had already topped this ranking with 15 points (five goals, five assists). Because of his achievements, he was elected to the NSCAA All-American Third Team in 1987 and 1989 and was also a member of the NSCAA All-Midwest Region First Team in his last year, 1989 . Towards the end of his college career, which he completed with a bachelor's degree in 1990 or 1991 , McPhail was briefly active as a player in two US professional leagues.

He appeared in the years 1989 to 1990 during the game-free time at the university for the Richardson Rockets , an indoor soccer franchise with game operations in the Southwest Indoor Soccer League . The team played their games just a few miles away from the SMU in Richardson, where McPhail had also attended high school. Today, however, nothing more is known about the exact deployment dates of McPhail. In 1990 he also played "outdoor soccer" with the Colorado Foxes of Commerce City , Colorado, about a half-hour drive from his birthplace Englewood. The Foxes had their game operations in the recently launched American Professional Soccer League (APSL). McPhail's teammates this year included Robin Fraser , Chad Ashton and Mark Dodd . With the Colorado Foxes he finished second in the final classification of WSL North of regular time and was eliminated in the subsequent championship-winning play-offs in the division finals against the eventual champions San Francisco Bay Blackhawks . McPhail had scored the only goal of his team in the 1: 2 defeat after an Ashton template; The other team's double scorer was Troy Dayak (based on assists by Dominic Kinnear and Eric Wynalda ).

Shortly thereafter, McPhail retired from active competitive sports in order to concentrate on his professional career. He started working for insurance companies in the 1990s . Before he moved to HUB International in 1998 , he was an underwriter at Risc, Inc., founded in Houston , Texas in 1992 . At HUB, he now holds the position of Vice President .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mustangs In The Pros , accessed January 23, 2020
  2. ↑ a b Parade Magazin, February 16, 1986, p. 16 (English), accessed on January 23, 2020
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i SMU Factbook Men's Soccer 2020 (English), accessed on January 23, 2020
  4. ↑ Scorecard - Pro Soccer - APSL Highlights , The Star-News, 28./29. August 1990, p. 14 (C-2), accessed on January 23, 2020
  5. ^ Scoreboard , San Francisco Examiner , August 26, 1990, p. 42 (C-12), accessed January 23, 2020
  6. ↑ Dayak lifts Hakws , San Francisco Examiner , August 26, 1990, p. 44 (C-14), accessed January 23, 2020
personal data
SURNAME McPhail, Larry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McPhail junior, Larry Lee (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Englewood , Colorado , United States