Came to the United States in 1967 to play for the Atlanta Chiefs in the
National Professional Soccer League.
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Class of 1992 |
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Born:
January 19, 1936
- Farnham,
England |
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He stayed on to coach three NASL teams with great
distinction and make a major contribution to the game. After spending the 1967 season with Atlanta, Newman was
traded to the struggling Dallas Tornado part way through the
1968 North American Soccer League season. Upon his retirement coached the Tornado from 1969 to
1975, leading the club to the championship in 1971. During his years in Dallas he was responsible for a
tremendous growth in the number of boys who took up soccer. After spending the 1976 season coaching the Los Angeles
Skyhawks of the American Soccer League, he was back in the
NASL in 1977 as coach of the
Ft. Lauderdale Strikers and
built that club into one of the most powerful in the league. He joined his third NASL club in July 1980 when he
became coach of the San Diego Sockers and made that club a
contender for the championship until the NASL folded early in
1985. During his
time in San Diego the team also became a power in the indoor
game. Born near
the famous English naval port of Portsmouth, Newman began his
playing career with Woking and continued in the English
Football League with Portsmouth, Orient, Crystal Palace and
Gillingham. When
Major League Soccer started operating in 1996 he was appointed
to coach the Kansas City Wizards and remained with them until
early in the 1999 season.
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