Garry Ayre

Garry Ayre ( born October 12, 1953 in Vancouver ) is a retired Canadian soccer player. 2005, the 15 - times capped player and Olympian was recorded in 1976 in the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame.

Club career

Ayre, who spent some time in 1970 when the English club Hull City and Oxford United, played in Canada first for the New Westminster blues. In 1977, he signed with the Vancouver Whitecaps a professional contract in the North American Soccer League ( NASL ). After 38 appearances for Vancouver he made ​​in 1978 at New York Cosmos, where he won alongside stars such as Carlos Alberto, Franz Beckenbauer and Giorgio Chinaglia the Soccer Bowl in 1978 and after the season took part in the tours to Europe and South America. From 1979 to 1980, the Ayre often used as Sonderbewacher the opposing playmaker was still playing for the Portland Timbers in the NASL, but started simultaneously with indoor soccer in the Major Indoor Soccer League ( MISL ) in the Wichita Wings. In 1981, he had to end his career due to a knee injury as a player of the Baltimore Blast MISL teams.

National

Ayre made ​​his debut in October 1973 in a friendly against Luxembourg in the Canadian national team. In addition to seven other friendlies (and some unofficial games) the defender also graduated seven games in the World Cup qualifiers in 1978.

In 1975, Ayre with the Canadian Olympic team at the Pan American Games in Mexico in part, by a sending-off in the second group match against Argentina, he was no longer used in the second round. A year later he was part of the Canadian squad for the Olympic football tournament in 1976 and came at Vorrundenaus in two games against the Soviet Union and North Korea to use.