Brian Robinson (soccer)

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Brian Robinson (Born, Victoria, British Columbia, 1953) is a former Canadian national soccer team player.

Brian began his international career in midfield and scored a memorable goal for Canada against Mexico in the Azteca Stadium in 1972.During the years that followed he played over 40 times for his country including 22 full internationals, and made two European tours that took him to Malta, Denmark, Luxembourg, Northern Ireland, East and West Germany and Poland.

While most of his club career was spent in Victoria, where he won a Canadian Championship medal with a team sponsored by the London Boxing Club in 1975, he played the whole of the 1976 season for the Vancouver Whitecaps in the North American Soccer League.

On 2006 Robinson was inducteed into the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame.