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Paul Moore (soccer)

Canadian soccer player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 27, 2024
Entity authorityQ20641195 ↗
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Paul Moore is a Canadian former soccer player who played most notably in the USL A-League, National Professional Soccer League, and with various Canadian soccer leagues.

Club career

Early career

Moore began his professional career in the Canadian National Soccer League with St. Catharines Wolves in 1995 and had a two-year tenure with the club. During his tenure, with St. Catharines he achieved the CNSL Championship and two league cups.

Toronto Lynx

In April 1997 he signed with the expansion franchise the Toronto Lynx in the USL A-League, his signing was announced in a press conference which revealed the team roster. Moore made his debut for the club on April 12, 1997, in the Lynx's first official match against Jacksonville Cyclones; the game would eventually result in a 3-1 defeat for the fledgling side. In total, he would appear in 2 matches for Toronto.

For the remainder of the year he returned to the CNSL with Toronto Supra, and featured in the CNSL Championship final against former club St. Catharines Wolves.

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Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995, 1997—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Paul, Moore and soccer is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Paul Moore (soccer)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.