Marco Rizi

Marco Rizi
Personal information
Full name Marco Michele Graciano Rizi
Date of birth (1968-09-15) September 15, 1968
Place of birth Montreal, Quebec
Height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Playing position Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1988–1990 Montreal Supra
1990–1992 Cleveland Crunch (indoor) 45 (11)
1992 Montreal Supra
1993 Detroit Rockers (indoor) 24 (3)
1993–1994 Montreal Impact 37 (3)
1993–1994 Canton Invaders (indoor) 9 (4)
1994 Chicago Power (indoor) 12 (3)
1994–1995 Canton Invaders (indoor) 9 (1)
1995 Seattle Sounders
1995–1998 Buffalo Blizzard (indoor) 70 (26)
1996 Rochester Rhinos 10 (0)
1997 MetroStars 1 (0)
2000 Houston Hotshots (indoor)
2001–2002 Cleveland Crunch (indoor) 18 (0)
National team‡
1986–1987 Canada U-20 11 (0)
1992–1995 Canada 12 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of May 7, 2008.

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of May 7, 2008

Marco Rizi (born September 15, 1968 in Montreal, Quebec) is a former Canadian professional soccer player. Rizi played in the American Professional Soccer League, professional indoor soccer, and briefly in Major League Soccer.

Club career

Rizi grew up in Montreal, graduating from Laurier Macdonald High School in 1985. He began his professional career in 1988 with Montreal Supra in the Canadian Soccer League. In 1990, after having spent most of September and the first half of October on trial with the Cleveland Crunch of the Major Indoor Soccer League, Rizi signed with the team on October 13, 1990.[1] He was a regular with the Crunch during the 1990-1991 season and on July 31, 1991, the San Diego Sockers made him a contract offer. The Crunch met the offer a week later and Rizi remained in Cleveland for the 1991-1992 season. He lost eight games at the start of the season with a groin injury, then underwent arthroscopic surgery in February 1992 for torn cartilage in his left knee.[2] He lost several weeks before returning to play only to break a bone in his left foot at the start of the play offs. He returned to the Supra for the 1992 CSL season, but the team and the league collapsed at the end of the season.

In February 1993, Rizi signed with the Detroit Rockers of the National Professional Soccer League.[3] On April 3, 1993, he joined the Montreal Impact of the American Professional Soccer League. He would play both the 1993 and 1994 APSL seasons in Montreal, scoring once in 24 games in 1993 and twice in 1994.[4] In 1994, the Impact won the APSL championship.[5] In the fall of 1993, he signed with the Canton Invaders. On February 27, 1994, the Chicago Power acquired Rizi from the Invaders in exchange for "future considerations".[6][7] Rizi returned to the Invaders for the start of the 1994-1995 NPSL season.

On February 16, 1995, he moved to the Buffalo Blizzard.[8] In May 1995, he signed with the Seattle Sounders of the A-League.[9] Rizi and his team mates would win the league championship.[10] He returned to the Blizzard for the 1995-1996 NPSL season, but broke his leg in the season opener and lost the remainder of the season.[11][12] In 1996, he played for the Rochester Rhinos in the A-League.[13] On May 3, 1997, he signed with the New York / New Jersey MetroStars, coming on to play 33 minutes as a substitute in one game.[14][15] Rizi retired in 1998. On October 25, 2000, Rizi signed with the Houston Hotshots of the World Indoor Soccer League.[16] In October 2001, he signed with the Cleveland Crunch.[17][18]

International career

He had played for the National Youth side under Tony Taylor in the 1980s and Rizi played two games at the 1987 Pan American Games. At the time, he was a member of the Canada U-20 men's national soccer team with which he earned 11 caps, including two at the 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship.[19]

He made his senior debut for Canada in a September 1992 friendly match against the USA and went on to earn a total of 12 caps, scoring no goals. He has represented Canada in 2 FIFA World Cup qualification matches. His final international was an August 1995 Caribana Cup match against Jamaica.

Rizi is currently a soccer coach with Ohio Premier

References

  1. ↑ DEALS THE SEATTLE TIMES - Saturday, October 13, 1990
  2. ↑ CRUNCH'S RIZI TO UNDERGO SURGERY Plain Dealer, The (Cleveland, OH) - Thursday, February 27, 1992
  3. ↑ NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL SOCCER LEAGUE FINAL OFFICIAL STATISTICS -- 1992-1993
  4. ↑ 1993 Montreal Impact
  5. ↑ The Year in American Soccer - 1994
  6. ↑ TRANSACTIONS The Orange County Register - Sunday, February 27, 1994
  7. ↑ NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL SOCCER LEAGUE FINAL OFFICIAL REPORT -- 1993-1994
  8. ↑ NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL SOCCER LEAGUE FINAL OFFICIAL STATISTICS -- 1994-1995
  9. ↑ SOUNDERS SET TO KICK OFF THE SEATTLE TIMES - Friday, May 5, 1995
  10. ↑ The Year in American Soccer - 1995
  11. ↑ OLD STALLION PISANO SURFACES IN KEY ROLE The Buffalo News - Friday, November 3, 1995
  12. ↑ NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL SOCCER LEAGUE FINAL OFFICIAL STATISTICS -- 1995-1996
  13. ↑
  14. ↑ MetroStars Sign Rizi
  15. ↑ 1997 MLS Stats
  16. ↑ Hotshots add players for playoff push Houston Chronicle - Thursday, October 26, 2000
  17. ↑ Young, old come together as Crunch enters new era Plain Dealer, The (Cleveland, OH) - Saturday, October 20, 2001
  18. ↑ Major Indoor Soccer League Final Official Statistics -- 2001-2002
  19. ↑ FIFA player profile
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