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Bruce Rudroff

b. 1955

American soccer player

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Born 1955. Bruce Rudroff is an American association football player.

Bruce Rudroff (born May 11, 1955, in Jefferson City, Missouri) was a U.S. soccer defender. Rudroff played three seasons in the North American Soccer League and four in the Major Indoor Soccer League. He also earned two caps with the U.S. national team.

College Rudroff attended St. Louis University where he played on the men's soccer team from 1973 to 1976. The Billikens won the 1973 NCAA Men's Soccer Championship and Rudroff was a third team All American in 1974. He was inducted into the Billikens Athletic Hall of Fame in 1995.

Professional The Seattle Sounders of the North American Soccer League (NASL) drafted Rudroff in the first round of the 1977 College Draft. While he spent most of 1977 with the Sounders reserve team, he did see time in nine first team games after Mel Machin was injured. His time with the Sounders peaked in 1978 with twenty-three games, but he played only four in 1979. Following the season, the Sounders traded him and Tommy Ord to the Tulsa Roughnecks in exchange for Jack Brand, Roger Davies and David Nish. Rudroff did not sign with the Roughnecks, but with the Hartford Hellions of the Major Indoor Soccer League. When the Hellions moved to Memphis in 1981, Rudroff went with the team, which was renamed the Memphis Americans.

National team Rudroff earned two caps with the U.S. national team. Both came in losses to the USSR. The first was a 3–1 loss on February 3, 1979. The second was a 4–1 loss on February 11, 1979.

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Who is Bruce Rudroff?

American soccer player

When was Bruce Rudroff born?

Bruce Rudroff was born on 11 May 1955 in Jefferson City.

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Bruce Rudroff is an association football player.

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Bruce Rudroff is American.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Bruce Rudroff

· Wikidata: Q4978231

· DBpedia: Bruce Rudroff

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