Steve Myers
American soccer player
Stephen Martin Myers (born July 6, 1963) is an American retired soccer goalkeeper who played professionally in the North American Soccer League. In November 2009 he was sentenced to 24 years in prison for kidnapping and sexual assault of a child.
Biography
In 1984, Myers signed with the Tulsa Roughnecks of the North American Soccer League. He played his only game with the Roughnecks in a 1–0 loss to the Toronto Blizzard on May 12, 1984, In 1985, a second Roughnecks briefly played an independent exhibition schedule with Myers in goal. In 1986, Myers joined the semi-professional Oklahoma City Warriors of the Southwest Indoor Soccer League. He was the 1986–87 Southwest Indoor Soccer League Goalkeeper of the Year. Myers continued to play for the Warriors through 1992.
He later coached girls youth soccer for the Littleton Soccer Club in Littleton, Colorado. In October 2008 he was arrested, for statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl who was one of his students. He pleaded guilty in August 2009.
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