Hector Marinaro
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Hector Luis Marinaro | ||
| Date of birth | December 6, 1964 | ||
| Place of birth | Toronto, Ontario | ||
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| ?–1982, 1983 | Toronto Italia | ||
| 1983–1984 | Cleveland Force (indoor) | 5 | (0) |
| 1986–1988 | Minnesota Strikers (indoor) | 45 | (75) |
| 1987–1988 | Toronto Blizzard | ||
| 1988–1989 | Los Angeles Lazers (indoor) | 44 | (47) |
| 1993 | Toronto Blizzard | 27 | (7) |
| 1996 | Rochester Raging Rhinos | 4 | (7) |
| 1989–2002 | Cleveland Crunch (indoor) | 448 | (1003) |
| 2002–2004 | Cleveland Force (indoor) | 85 | (96) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 1986–1995 | Canada | 6 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2002–2004 | Cleveland Force (assistant) | ||
| 2006–present | John Carroll University | ||
| 2013–2014 | Cleveland Freeze | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 13 November 2013. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 13 November 2013 |
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Hector Luis Marinaro (born December 6, 1964 in Toronto, Ontario) is the all-time leader in points and goals in professional indoor soccer. He is currently the men's soccer coach at John Carroll University.
Marinaro is the son of Hector Marinaro, Sr., a native of Argentina who both played and coached extensively in Canada.[1] Marinaro grew up playing soccer, football, basketball and baseball. He attended Thomas L. Kennedy High School and developed his soccer skills under the eye of his father, beginning his career with the Toronto Italia, coached by Marinaro, Sr. In 1982, the team won the National Soccer Championship and in 1983, it won the Ontario Soccer Championship.
In 1983, Timo Liekoski saw Marinaro playing for the Italia. He convinced Marinaro to travel to Cleveland for a trial with the Cleveland Force of Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL). The trial was successful enough for the Force to offer Marinaro a contract. While the team played him sparingly as a defender, it offered him a three-year contract extension at the end of the year. Marinaro declined the offer, stating he’d rather play out his option. The Force promptly cut him and Marinaro became a free agent.
He did not return to the MISL until 1986 when he signed with the Minnesota Strikers. That season, the Strikers suffered from numerous injuries and head coach Alan Merrick moved Marinaro to forward. The move paid off for both the Strikers and Marinaro who led the league in scoring with 58 goals the next season. Despite Marinaro’s scoring, the Strikers folded at the end of the season, and Marinaro moved to the Los Angeles Lazers for the 1988-1989 season. The Lazers folded at the end of the season and Marinaro became a free agent.
That summer, Cleveland gained a new MISL franchise, the Cleveland Crunch. Marinaro worked a move to Cleveland because of the excellent memories he had of playing his rookie year there.[2] Marinaro would remain in Cleveland for the rest of his career. In 1992, the MISL folded and the Crunch moved to the National Professional Soccer League. They promptly went to the NPSL championship series, losing to the Kansas City Attack in five games. They returned to the championship the next season, this time winning it three games to one over the St. Louis Ambush. Marinaro scored the winning goal in double overtime of the deciding game to give the city of Cleveland its first professional sports championship in 30 years. The Crunch again won the championship in 1996 and 1999. In 2001, MISL was reconstituted and the Crunch was back where it started. The franchise changed its name to the Force in 2002.
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