Jean-Herbert Austin (born 23 February 1950) is a retired football player.
Herbert Austin was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Despite his parent's misgivings for the game, he started playing football as a young boy in his backyard with a ball made from whatever he could find. By the time his family moved to New York in the late 1960s, he was committed to the game. He immediately joined a local Haitian club, the New York City Cacos. College scouts took notice of his play, and he received an Athletic Scholarship to NYU, where he went on to become a three-time All-American men's soccer midfielder, and a four-time member of the New York State All-Star Team. He would eventually be inducted to the NYU Sports Hall of Fame.
When he returned from Haiti, he joined the NJ Americans, a professional team in the American Soccer League. He played on that team for three years, with various players including Eusebio, the famous Portuguese striker.
It was not long after that illustrious college career that he got the attention of the Haitian national team, who invited him to be a member of the Haitian 1974 World Cup Squad.[1]
Mr. Austin currently resides in Dallas, Texas with his wife of over thirty years. He is District Director for the U. S. Small Business Administration, Dallas/Fort Worth office, covering 72 counties of north, central, and east Texas. As director, Mr. Austin is responsible for the management and delivery of SBA programs and services which includes oversight of SBA resources – Small Business Development Centers and SCORE Chapters. The district office works with 314 participating lenders to provide access to capital to the small business community. The district covers 22 percent of the land area of Texas, contains 36.3 percent of the population, and has 649,232 small businesses.
Mr. Austin has a daughter, who graduated from Columbia College and Wharton Business School, and a son, who graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School.
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