1. Bob Lenarduzzi is currently club liaison for Vancouver Whitecaps FC.
20 Facts About Bob Lenarduzzi
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Bob Lenarduzzi is a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame.
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Bob Lenarduzzi began his professional playing career as a midfielder and defender at age 15 with Reading in the English Football League and went on to play 67 first-team games and score two goals with the club.
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Bob Lenarduzzi then joined the NASL Vancouver Whitecaps in 1974 in the team's first season.
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Bob Lenarduzzi played 11 seasons for Vancouver until the Whitecaps' last season in 1984, when the league folded.
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Bob Lenarduzzi holds the record for most games played in the league, with 312.
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Bob Lenarduzzi played all eleven positions during his tenure with the team, including 45 minutes as goalkeeper.
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Bob Lenarduzzi was voted NASL North American player of the year in 1978.
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In 1984, Bob Lenarduzzi joined the Tacoma Stars of Major Indoor Soccer League.
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Bob Lenarduzzi spent two seasons with them before in 1986 becoming executive director of the Vancouver 86ers of the Canadian Soccer League.
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Vancouver did participate in three subsequent indoor seasons, and Bob Lenarduzzi featured in all three for the Whitecaps.
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Bob Lenarduzzi played all the country's matches both as the squad progressed to the quarterfinals of the 1984 Summer Olympics and as it participated in the first round of the 1986 World Cup finals.
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Bob Lenarduzzi led the franchise to four consecutive CSL titles from 1988 to 1991.
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Bob Lenarduzzi's team set a record for professional North American sports teams by going 46 games unbeaten between June 6,1988, and August 8,1989.
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Bob Lenarduzzi was the head coach for the Canadian men's national team briefly in 1989 and for a longer term that started in 1992.
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Bob Lenarduzzi served as 86ers general manager from 1988 to 1993.
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Bob Lenarduzzi resumed the post in 1998 and was named the A-League's executive of the year for 2000.
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Bob Lenarduzzi was the president of Vancouver Whitecaps FC from the time it entered Major League Soccer until August 15,2019, when the role was eliminated in favour of the role of sporting director.
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In 2001, Bob Lenarduzzi was inducted as a player into the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame.
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Bob Lenarduzzi was voted one of the Top 30 Players of the Century in the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football region.