Louis "Louie" Nanchoff was born on May 13,1956 and is a retired soccer player.
12 Facts About Louis Nanchoff
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Louis Nanchoff spent three seasons in the North American Soccer League and seven seasons in the Major Indoor Soccer League.
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Louis Nanchoff's family settled in Akron, Ohio, where he attended Central-Hower High School.
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Louis Nanchoff spent that season with the Caribous, then moved with the team when it relocated to Atlanta between the 1978 and 1979 seasons.
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Louis Nanchoff played in fifty-five regular-season outdoor games during his three seasons in the NASL.
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In 1980, Louis Nanchoff signed with the Philadelphia Fever of the Major Indoor Soccer League.
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Louis Nanchoff spent the next two indoor seasons with the Fever.
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Louis Nanchoff's contract required that his salary be guaranteed if the team was sold.
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Louis Nanchoff earned ten caps, scoring one goal, with the US national team between 1979 and 1980.
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In 1979, Louis Nanchoff was a critical part of the US Olympic soccer team which qualified for the 1980 Summer Olympics to be held in Moscow.
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Louis Nanchoff led the team in scoring, but his and his teammates' hopes for success at the games were crushed when President Carter boycotted the games in protest of the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan.
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Since retiring, Louis Nanchoff has joined his brother George as a coach with the Cleveland-based Internationals Soccer Club where he coaches a boys' team.