Dan Canter
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| Dan Canter | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Dan Canter | |
| Date of birth | ||
| Place of birth | , United States | |
| Playing position | Defender | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Retired | |
| Youth clubs | ||
| 1978-1981 | Penn State | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1982 1983 1984-1985 1985-1987 |
Fort Lauderdale Strikers Team America New York Cosmos Minnesota Strikers |
29 (2) |
| National team | ||
| 1983-1985 | United States | 9 (0) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Dan Canter is a retired U.S. soccer defender.
Canter attended Penn State where he played as a sweeper on the men’s soccer team from 1978 to 1981. In 1981 he earned first team All American honors. The Fort Lauderdale Strikers of the North American Soccer League drafted Canter in the 1982 NASL College Draft. He quickly won a starting job on the Strikers first team, playing twenty-nine games and scoring twice. In 1983, the U.S. Soccer Federation, in coordination with the NASL, entered the U.S. national team, known as Team America, into the NASL as a league franchise. The team drew on U.S. citizens playing in the NASL, Major Indoor Soccer League and American Soccer League. Canter left the Strikers and signed with Team America. When Team America finished the 1983 season with a 10-20 record, the worst in the NASL, USSF withdrew the team from the league. Canter returned to the Strikers in time for the 1983-1984 NASL indoor season. The Strikers which were in the process of relocating from Fort Lauderdale to Minnesota, did not play in that season. Therefore, the Strikers loaned Canter to the New York Cosmos. In February 1984, the Cosmos acquired Canter from the Strikers and he played the 1984 outdoor season in New York.[1] That year Canter was an NASL All Star honorable mention (third team). The NASL collapsed after the 1984 outdoor season and several of the league’s teams moved to MISL for the 1984-1985 season. The Cosmos were one of those, but experienced severe financial difficulty and did not finish the season. Canter then returned to the Strikers for the remainder of that season as well as the next two MISL seasons.
Canter earned his first cap in the national team’s only 1983 game, a 2-0 win over Haiti. Canter played the first national team game in 1984, a 0-0 tie with Italy and was an integral part of the team as it prepared for the upcoming 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Unfortunately for him, he injured himself just prior to the games and was replaced by Kazbek Tambi on the roster.[2] Canter returned for the next two full initernationals in September and October, but did not play again until May 1985. At that point, he again became a regular starter as the U.S. moved through the 1986 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds. He was part of the debacle in Torrance, California where the U.S. needed only a tie with Costa Rica to make the finals, but lost 1-0. He earned his last cap three weeks later when England crushed the U.S. 5-0 in Los Angeles.
