Yari Allnutt

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Yari Allnutt
Personal information
Date of birth (1970-02-17) February 17, 1970 (age 54)
Place of birth
Baltimore, Maryland
, United States
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Position(s) Midfielder
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1989–1992 Portland Pilots
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1989
San Diego Nomads
1994 Los Angeles Salsa
1994–1996 Inter de Tijuana
1996
Irapuato
1996–1997
Carolina Dynamo
48 (29)
1996Kansas City Wizards (loan) 1 (1)
1998–2000
Rochester Rhinos
75 (30)
2001 New England Revolution 9 (0)
2004
Rochester Rhinos
19 (1)
International career
1992–1993 United States 5 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Yari Allnutt (born February 17, 1970) is an American retired

caps with the United States national team, including games at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona
.

Early life and education

Allnutt was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and his family moved to Mexico when he was a year old. He is Jewish.[1]

He played street soccer in Mexico, but did not join an organized team until his family moved to San Diego, California when he was ten. Three years later, he began playing for the top youth club La Jolla Nomads, coached by Derek Armstrong. He moved up the clubs age groups, winning the McGuire Cup with the U-19 team.[2]

After graduating from

Western Soccer League.[3] That year the Nomads won the WSL championship, defeating the San Francisco Bay Blackhawks 1–0.[4]

That autumn, Allnutt entered the University of Portland where he played forward on the Clive Charles coached men's soccer team from 1989 to 1992. He was a four-year starter on the team, scoring 27 goals and assisting on 17 others. He earned second-team All-American honors his senior year, 1992.[5] On May 5, 2010, the school inducted Allnutt into its Athletic Hall of Fame.[6]

National teams

In 1991, he played for the U.S. at the

cap with the senior national team later that year when he came on for Cobi Jones in a September 3 victory over Canada. He played one more game for the national team in 1992 and three in 1993. He scored in his only start for the team, a 4–1 loss to Honduras on March 25, 1993.[7]
In 2005, at the tail end of his career, he played for the United States in the 17th World Maccabiah Games. Allnutt helped the team take silver, losing to Argentina in the finals.

Professional

In 1993, the Portland Pride of the Continental Indoor Soccer League drafted Allnutt, but he lost the entire year after having surgery in June for torn groin ligaments. In 1994, he joined the Los Angeles Salsa of the American Professional Soccer League.[8]

Using his previous years living in Mexico, with his fluency in Spanish, Allnutt then moved to Mexico, where he became a forward on

Kansas City Wiz
for one game. In that game, he was a second half sub, playing 45 minutes and scoring a goal against the Revs.

After being released by the Wizards, Allnutt joined the

1999 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup becoming the only second division club to beat an MLS team (Colorado Rapids). Allnutt scored one of the goals for Rochester in that game. In 2000, the Rhinos continued its winning ways, by running away with the A-League championship, defeating the Minnesota Thunder 3–0 with Allnutt bagging one of the goals. [1] In 2001, Allnutt again made the A-League First XI. His outstanding play led to the New England Revolution drafting him, for a second time, in the fourth round (42 overall) of the 2001 MLS SuperDraft
. Allnutt played only nine games with the Revs, not scoring a goal and assisting on only one. On April 1, 2002, the Revolution announced that it would not exercise the option on midfielder Yari Allnutt's contract for the 2002 MLS season. He rejoined the Rhinos for the 2004 season and retired at the end of it.

See also

References

  1. ^ "3 Olympic Golds Won By Jews". Hoosier State Chronicles. September 9, 1992.
  2. ^ "Allnutt Thrives as an Underdog". Los Angeles Times. June 11, 1992.
  3. ^ "WSA 1989 Season". a-leaguearchive.tripod.com.
  4. ^ "The Year in American Soccer - 1989". homepages.sover.net.
  5. ^ "1992 All Americans". NSCAA.com.
  6. ^ "UP Announces Athletics Hall of Fame Inductees". portlandpilots.com. May 26, 2010.
  7. ^ "USA - Details of International Matches 1990-1994". RSSSF.
  8. ^ "APSL 1993 Season". a-leaguearchive.tripod.com.
  9. ^ "The Year in American Soccer, 1998". homepages.sover.net.

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