Tom Kain
American soccer player (born 1963)
Tom Kain (born July 1, 1963) is an American businessman and former soccer player. He was the director of sports marketing at Nike. A midfielder, he played collegiate soccer at the Duke University where he was named as the top collegiate player winner in the 1985 Hermann Trophy. He also earned five caps with the U.S. national team in 1986 and 1987.
Youth career
Kain grew up in Wall Township, New Jersey and graduated from Wall High School in New Jersey in 1980. While there he wore number 7, which the school has retired. Wall High School won the New Jersey Group III state championship all three years he played. He had 56 goals and had 40 assists during his junior and senior years at Wall. In 1999, he was named by The Star-Ledger as one of the top ten New Jersey high school soccer players of the 1980s. After high school, Kain played for Duke University.
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