Kevin Crow

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Kevin Troy Crow (born 1961) is a former star indoor soccer defender. He was named MISL defender of the year a record five times and a league all-star eight times. He also played outdoors for United States men's national soccer team 19 times including on two United States Olympic soccer teams, 1984 and 1988.

A Bay Area product, Crow graduated from Amador Valley High School in 1978. He was named All-American as a sophomore at San Diego State University. Crow played his entire career with the San Diego Sockers. He played the final two Socker seasons outdoors in the NASL of 1983 and 1984. As the Sockers joined the original MISL, Crow went on to be named the indoor league's Defender of the Year in 1985, 1988, 1989, 1991, and 1992. He was on Sockers MISL championship teams of 1984, 1986, and 1987 through to the league's final year in 1992. Crow continued to play with the Sockers in the Continental Indoor Soccer League until retiring as a player in the team's final season, 1996.

Crow has been active as a business manager. He was president of a printing, mailing, and shipping company from 1994 to 2000. He was general manager of the San Diego Spirit women's professional team from 2001 to 2003, when the team folded. Crow has since worked as a business consultant.