Randy Samuel

Randolph Fitzgerald " Randy " Samuel ( born December 23, 1963 in Port Fortin, Trinidad and Tobago) is a former Canadian soccer player who until September 2010 was a record player in the Canadian national soccer team with 82 missions in the period 1983 to 1997.

The 185 -centimeter and 84 -pound defender started his career in 1983 at the Edmonton Eagles in the short-lived Canadian Professional Soccer League. From 1986 to 1988 he played in the Eredivisie with PSV Eindhoven, where he in 1987 a game for the first team of North Brabant completed. From 1989 to 1990, he played for FC Volendam, for which he completed in 15 games. After he had moved to Fortuna Sittard, he came in the years 1990 to 1992 to 32 games. For the seasons 1993/94 and 1994/95 he returned to Sittard, although the club only played in the second division. In the first, he scored two goals as a defender. In 1995 he also had a short time a contract with the Port Vale FC.

Further experience in the European soccer stage Samuel gathered in the Portuguese Super Liga and in Norwegian and lower class English clubs. For example, in 1997 he played for the Norwegian first division side Harstad and 1999 in Group 8 of the Norwegian second division. The later years of his active career spent Samuel in North America, where he spent the 1998 season with the Vancouver Whitecaps and the 2000 with the Virginia Beach Mariners, both from the Canadian A-League. His professional career, he ended 2001 Montreal Impact.

The in Richmond, British Columbia, grew up Samuel had his first international match on November 11, 1983 against Honduras (1:3) and played all three games for Canada at the World Cup finals only (Mexico 1986). In 1997 he ended his international career.

2001 Samuel was awarded the Aubrey Sanford Meritorious Award from the CSA. On this occasion, the CSA President Jim Fleming said of him: " Randy was a player commitment, intelligence, talent and commitment showed. " In 2006 he was finally added to the Hall of Fame of Canadian football. Today he has his own football business in Richmond.