Bruce Miller (soccer)

Bruce Miller is a former Canadian international, NASL, and indoor soccer player. A former professional indoor soccer coach, he now is a youth soccer coach in Northern Ohio.

A striker, Miller played professionally for 9 years and was forced to retire in 1986 due to complications from knee injury. Miller was a 1983 NASL All-Star Honorable Mention playing for the Fort Lauderdale Strikers. He began playing in the league in 1975 with the Vancouver Whitecaps and went on to play 1978, '79, and '80 with the Seattle Sounders, '82 and '83 with Fort Lauderdale, and 1984 with the Strikers in Minnesota Strikers.

Miller played 8 times for Canada. He made his 1975 debut against Cuba at 17 years, 6 months of age which until as recently as the late 1990s was (and still may be) the youngest 'A' international debut of a Canadian. Miller went on to play 6 more times in 1980, and a final time in 1984 against Haiti.

Miller played indoors for the Strikers in 1984 through 1986. Playing only 3 games in '86, Miller was team assistant coach in '86-'87 and '87-'88.

Miller played collegiately for Simon Fraser University in 1975 and '76, as SFU reached the NAIA finals in '75 and won the championship '76.

Miller was head coach of the Cleveland Crunch professional indoor soccer team for 5 and a half seasons, leading them to two league championships, in 1996 and 1999.

Miller is currently an Under-11 and U-13 coach with the Northern Alliance Soccer League.

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