Zen Luzniak

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Zen Luzniak
Personal information
Full name	Zenon Luzniak
Date of birth
Place of birth
Playing position	Defender
Youth clubs
1987-1988	Wake Forest
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1991-1993 1996, 1999	Fort Lauderdale Strikers Carolina Dynamo	34 (1) 18 (0)
National team
1988	United States	01 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Zenon “Zen” Luzniak is a U.S. soccer defender who spent three seasons in the American Professional Soccer League and two in the USISL. He also earned one cap with the U.S. national team.

Contents 1 High school and college 2 Professional 3 National team 4 References

[edit] High school and college

Luzniak grew up in Cooper City, Florida where he attended Cooper City High School from 1984 to 1984. During his four seasons on the Cooper City soccer team, he led the team in scoring. He then attended Wake Forest University where he played on the men’s soccer team. In his two seasons, 1987-1988, with the Demon Deacons, Luzniak scored four goals in thirty-seven games^[1]. He was injured and left Wake to rehab with a Netherlands team.^[2]

[edit] Professional

When Luzniak returned to the United States in 1991, he signed with the Fort Lauderdale Strikers of the American Professional Soccer League and played three seasons with them. He was drafted by the Tampa Bay Mutiny in the thirteen round (127th overall) in the 1996 MLS Draft. However, he never played for the Mutiny, but joined the Carolina Dynamo of the USISL for the 1996 season^[3]. He signed with the Dynamo in 1999, but on May 8, 1999, he tore his anterior-cruciate ligament in a game against the Myrtle Beach Seadawgs.

[edit] National team

Luzniak earned one cap with the U.S. national team in a 1-0 win over Costa Rica on June 14, 1988 when he came on for Donald Cogsville^[4].

[edit] References