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Full name
  
Andrew John Straden

Name
  
Andy Straden

Role
  
Soccer player

Date of death
  
June 1967

Playing position
  
Forward

Years
  
Team


Date of birth
  
(1897-11-24)November 24, 1897

Place of death
  
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Died
  
June 1967, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Place of birth
  
Bothwell, Scotland

Andy Straden (also spelled Stradan) (November 27, 1897 – June 1967) was a United States soccer forward who was a member of the 1924 U.S. Olympic Team and played professionally in the first American Soccer League.

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American Soccer League

Straden, was an amateur player in the early 1920s with Fleisher Yarn when the team won the 1924 National Amateur Cup. That summer, he was selected to play with the United States at the Summer Olympics. When he returned to the United States, Straden rejoined Fleisher Yarn for the 1924-1925 American Soccer League season. This was Yarn’s first season as a professional club and its first season in the ASL. Straden scored twenty goals in thirty-four games that season before moving to the Shawsheen Indians for the start of the 1925-1926 season. However, the Indians folded two months into the season and he ended the season with the New York Giants. He played only two games with the Giants during the 1926-1927 season and retired.

National and Olympic teams

At the 1924 Summer Olympics, the U.S. fielded an entirely amateur side, including Straden. In the four games that year, two at the games and two during a European exhibition tour following the United States’s elimination. In the first United States game of the Olympics, the United States defeated Estonia off a tenth minute Straden penalty kick. Uruguay, the dominant national team of the era, easily eliminated the United States in the next round. Following their elimination, the United States defeated Poland in Warsaw, 3-2. Two of the United States goals came from Straden. Then the United States fell to Ireland in Dublin. Aside from those four games that year, Straden never again suited up for the United States

References

Andy Straden Wikipedia