Keith Tozer

Keith Tozer
Personal information
Date of birth	April 4, 1957 (age 67)
Place of birth	Grosse Pointe, Michigan, United States
Position(s)	Defender
College career
Years	Team
1975–1978	Oneonta State Red Dragons
Senior career*
Years	Team
1978–1979	Cincinnati Kids (indoor)
1979	Pennsylvania Stoners
1979–1981	Hartford Hellions (indoor)
1981–1984	Pittsburgh Spirit (indoor)
1984–1987	Louisville Thunder (indoor)
1989–1990	Atlanta Attack (indoor)
Managerial career
1984–1987	Louisville Thunder
1987–1989	Los Angeles Lazers
1989–1992	Atlanta/Kansas City Attack
1992–2014	Milwaukee Wave
1996–1998	United States futsal (interim/assistant)
1998–?	United States futsal
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Keith Tozer is a retired American

American Indoor Soccer Association. He is currently the commissioner of the Major Arena Soccer League

.

Player

College

Tozer grew up in upstate New York. After graduating from high school, he attended

forward

on the men's soccer team. He finished his four seasons at Oneonta with the school's all-time points record of 117 points off 50 goals and 17 assists. In 2002, Oneonta State inducted Tozer into the school's Athletic Hall of Fame.

American Indoor Soccer Association (AISA). The AISA was formed in March 1984 as a rival to MISL. Tozer played nearly 100 games with the Thunder over three seasons, but more significantly, he was the team's head coach. In his first two seasons with the Thunder, Tozer saw his team fall in the championship series to the Canton Invaders. In his third season with the team, Tozer and the Thunder finally mastered the Invaders, winning their first AISA championship. Tozer left the Thunder in 1987 to become the head coach of the Los Angeles Lazers

(MISL), having coached the Thunder to a 70–37 record, three championship series and one AISA title.

Coach

Professional

In 1987, Tozer became the head coach of the Lazers. Over the next two seasons, Tozer coached the team to a 62–70 record. In 1989 the Lazers folded and Tozer moved back to the AISA where he became a player/coach for the

National Professional Soccer League (NPSL) Kansas City Attack

. When Tozer left the team at the end of the 1991–1992 season, he had led the team to a 74–46 record.

Tozer joined the Milwaukee Wave in 1992. In 1997–1998 he took the Wave to their first NPSL championship, and since then Tozer and the Wave won the NPSL title two more times, in 1999–2000 and 2000–2001. In 2001, the NPSL became the second incarnation of Major Indoor Soccer League. Tozer and the Wave continued their winning way, taking the MISL championship in 2004–2005.

Tozer guided the Wave again to a 15–5 record during the 2010–11 season tied with the Baltimore Blast for first place. The Wave beat the Missouri Comets in two games in the semi-finals and then beat the Baltimore Blast 16–7 in Baltimore for the Wave's fifth MISL Championship.

On January 29, 2012, Tozer recorded his 700th win as a coach in a 25–10 victory over the

Syracuse Silver Knights. Tozer is currently the winningest professional indoor coach in North American indoor soccer history. On March 28, 2014, he parted ways on good terms as coach of the Milwaukee Wave.^[1]

Futsal

Tozer's success as a professional indoor coach has led to his selection as the interim U.S.

1996 CONCACAF Futsal championship that year. Despite that success, he remained and interim/assistant coach until 1998 when he was hired as the team's head coach. That year he took the U.S. to third, its best finish ever, at the 1998 Futsal World Cup. In 2000, the U.S. took third at the CONCACAF championship before winning the tournament in 2004.^[2]

Since 1984 Tozer has become one of the most successful coaches in U.S. soccer history, and the all-time winningest coach in North America indoor soccer with over 700 wins, six league championships and eight coach of the year awards. He also owns a motivational company, Teamwork Concepts.

Executive

On June 3, 2021, Tozer was named commissioner of the Major Arena Soccer League. Shep Messing and JP Dellacamera also joined the league in other leadership roles.^[3]

References

^ "Keith Tozer says Sue Black did not fire him". bizjournals.com. 2014-04-01. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-03-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ Stanley, Ken. "TRIO OF INDOOR SOCCER LEGENDS TO LEAD MASL". MASLSoccer.com. Retrieved 4 June 2021.

External links

[1] "Keith Tozer says Sue Black did not fire him". bizjournals.com. 2014-04-01. Retrieved 2023-06-09.

[2] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-03-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[3] Stanley, Ken. "TRIO OF INDOOR SOCCER LEGENDS TO LEAD MASL". MASLSoccer.com. Retrieved 4 June 2021.

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