Henry Meyerdierks

Football player infobox
playername = Henry Meyerdierks
fullname = Henry Meyerdierks
dateofbirth =
cityofbirth = New York City
countryofbirth = United States
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position = Wing Half
youthyears =
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years = 1921-1924
1924-1927
clubs = New York Field Club
New York Giants
caps(goals) = 54 (3)
45 (0)
nationalyears = 1925
nationalteam = United States
nationalcaps(goals) = 01 (0)
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Henry Meyerdierks (born New York City, New York) was a U.S. soccer wing half who played six seasons in the first American Soccer League and earned one cap with the U.S. national team

Professional career

In 1921, Meyerdierks signed with the New York Field Club of the American Soccer League. He played three seasons with them before transferring to the New York Giants in 1924. He saw time in thirty-three games during the 1924-1925 season, but only three and nine games in the next two seasons. He left the Giants at the end of the 1926-1927 season.cite book | last = Jose | first = Colin | title = American Soccer League, 1921-1931 | format = Hardback | publisher = The Scarecrow Press | year = 1998 | id = (ISBN 0-8108-3429-4) ]

National team

Meyerdierks earned his lone cap in a 1-0 loss to Canada on June 27, 1925. [ [http://www.rsssf.com/tablesu/usa-intres-det69.html RSSSF] ]

pelling of last name

While this article uses the National Soccer Hall of Fame spelling of Meyerdierks last name, other sources have differenct versions. A June 13, 1925 newspaper article lists it as Meyerdeicks, [ [http://www.geocities.com/bethlehem_soccer/gl061325.html June 13, 1925 The Globe article] ] and Colin Jose, in his book on the American Soccer League, spells it as Meyerdirks.

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