Steve Long (soccer)

Steve Long
Personal information
Date of birth (1957-04-23) April 23, 1957
Place of birth Babonga, Belgian Congo
Playing position Forward / Midfielder
Youth career
1975-1978 Wheaton College
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1979 Pennsylvania Stoners 28 (10)
1979-1981 Chicago Sting 48 (4)
1980-1981 Chicago Sting (indoor) 7 (2)
1981-1984 Memphis Americans (indoor) 127 (39)
1984-1985 Las Vegas Americans (indoor) 13 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Steve Long is a retired American soccer player who played in the American Soccer League, North American Soccer League and Major Indoor Soccer League.

Although born in the Belgian Congo, he was raised in Brazil. He attended Wheaton College where he played on the men's soccer team from 1975 to 1978. He scored 59 goals and added 21 assists for 139 points. This puts him in fourth place on the team's all time career points list.[1] He was inducted into the school's Athletic Hall of Fame in 1993.[2] In 1979, he played for the Pennsylvania Stoners of the American Soccer League.[3] He then moved to the Chicago Sting of the North American Soccer League. In 1981, he moved, this time to the Memphis Americans of the Major Indoor Soccer League. When the team moved west to Las Vegas in 1984, Long went with it. However, he retired at the end of the 1984-1985 season.

Since retirement he runs Steve Longs's Samba Soccer Camp

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