Mike Powers (soccer)

Mike Powers

Personal information
Full name	Michael G. Powers
Date of birth	December 22, 1957 (1957-12-22) (age 53)
Place of birth	St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Playing position	Midfielder / Defender
Youth career
1976-1980	Rockhurst University
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1980-1983	Wichita Wings (indoor)	37	(5)
1981-1983	Detroit Express
1984-1985	Dallas Americans
1986-2002	Dallas Sidekicks (indoor)	459	(61)
Teams managed
2002-2004	Dallas Sidekicks (assistant)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Mike Powers is a retired American soccer midfielder who played sixteen years with the Dallas Sidekicks. He also played in the second American Soccer League and the United Soccer League.

Powers attended Rockhurst University, playing for the men’s soccer team from 1975 to 1980. He is a member of the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame.^[1]

In 1979, the Wichita Wings selected Powers in the Territorial Round (10th overall) of the Major Indoor Soccer League Draft. He played from 1980 to 1983 with the Wings. In addition to playing indoors with the Wings, Powers also played three seasons, from 1981 to 1983 with the Detroit Express of the American Soccer League. The Express won the 1982 ASL championship.^[2] Both the Express and the ASL collapsed at the end of the 1983 season and Powers moved to the Dallas Americans of the United Soccer League for two seasons. The Americans and the USL collapsed in 1985. In 1986, Powers attended an open trial with the Dallas Sidekicks. He performed well enough that the team signed him as a free agent on October 30, 1986. In 1994, the Las Vegas Dustdevils picked Powers in the CISL Expansion Draft, but Powers refused to join the team. Therefore, in July 1994, the Dustdevils traded his rights back to the Sidekicks in exchange for Gary Young. He remained with the Sidekicks until his retirement in February 2002. During his sixteen years in Dallas, the team moved from the original MISL to the Continental Indoor Soccer League (1993-1997) to the Premier Soccer Alliance (1998) to the World Indoor Soccer League (1999-2001) to the second Major Indoor Soccer League (2002). After his retirement, Powers spent two years as an assistant coach with the Sidekicks.

References

1. ^ Rockhurst University Hall of Fame
2. ^ The Year in American Soccer – 1982

External links

• Stats
• Dallas Sidekicks: Mike Powers
• Sidekicks stats

Persondata
Name	Powers, Mike
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Date of birth	December 22, 1957
Place of birth	St. Louis, Missouri
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