Jean Harbor
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 19 September 1965 | ||
| Place of birth | Lagos, Nigeria | ||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1983–1986 | Alabama A&M | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Nepa F.C. | |||
| Enugu Rangers | |||
| 1988–1989 | Washington Diplomats | (14) | |
| 1990–1991 | Maryland Bays | ? | (25) |
| 1991–1992 | Baltimore Blast (indoor) | 31 | (14) |
| 1992–1993 | Tampa Bay Rowdies | 29 | (18) |
| 1994 | Montreal Impact | 15 | (13) |
| 1995 | Buffalo Blizzard (indoor) | 7 | (2) |
| 1995 | → Seattle SeaDogs (loan) (indoor) | 26 | (40) |
| 1996–1997 | Colorado Rapids | 29 | (11) |
| 1997 | Seattle SeaDogs (indoor) | ||
| 1998–1999 | Florida ThunderCats (indoor) | 26 | (25) |
| 1999 | Philadelphia KiXX (indoor) | 15 | (16) |
| National team | |||
| 1992–1997 | United States | 15 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
Jean Harbor (born 19 September 1965 in Lagos, Nigeria) is a former Nigerian American soccer forward who played for numerous teams in Nigeria and the US He earned fifteen caps with the US national team after becoming a US citizen in 1992.
While born and raised in Nigeria, Harbor attended college at Alabama A&M University in Normal, Alabama the United States. He majored in chemistry and was a forward on the men's soccer team from 1983 to 1986. He was a three time second and third team All-American and held the school's career scoring record when he graduated.
Before coming to the US, Harbor had spent time with two Nigerian teams, Nepa F.C. and Enugu Rangers. However, he does not appear to have played professionally for two years after graduating from Alabama A&M. One article mentions that he worked in a Maryland laboratory for several years after leaving Alabama. He apparently even continued to work at the facility after he began his professional playing career.
In June 1988, the Washington Diplomats of the new American Soccer League (ASL) signed Harbor. Diplomats coach, Julio Pinon, spotted Harbor when Harbor was playing in the Embassy Cup Tournament in Washington, D.C. The Diplomats had been having difficulty scoring up to that point in the season, but Harbor made an immediate positive impact. The team went on to win the ASL championship.
Harbor continued his high scoring ways in the 1989 season, but was suspended by the league after striking Pedro Magallanes in the face during a game with the Fort Lauderdale Strikers. The suspension ran for a month and helped limit Harbor to seven goals that season. In 1990, Harbor moved to the Maryland Bays. By this time the ASL had merged with the Western Soccer League to form the American Professional Soccer League (APSL). Harbor would spend two seasons with the Bays. In 1990, he scored eight goals as the Bays took the league championship in a 2–1 victory over the San Francisco Bay Blackhawks. In 1991, he led the league in scoring with seventeen goals and eleven assists in twenty games as the Bays fell to the Albany Capitals in the semi-finals. Harbor took first team All APSL and league MVP honors. The team folded at the end of the season.
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