Joey Leonetti
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Joe Leonetti | ||
| Date of birth | May 25, 1970 | ||
| Place of birth | Portland, Oregon, United States | ||
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||
| Playing position | Forward / Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1988–1991 | Portland Pilots | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1988 | Portland Timbers | ||
| 1992 | San Francisco Bay Blackhawks | 8 | (2) |
| 1993–1995 | Portland Pride (indoor) | ||
| 1996 | Seattle Sounders | 16 | (3) |
| 1997 | Portland Pride (indoor) | ||
| 1998 | Portland Pythons (indoor) | ||
| 1999 | Willamette Valley Firebirds | ||
| National team | |||
| 1992–1996 | United States | 2 | (0) |
| 1992 | U.S. U-23 | 4 | (2) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1997–2006 | West Linn High School | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Joe "Joey" Leonetti (born May 25, 1970 in Portland, Oregon) is a former U.S. soccer player. He played for numerous soccer teams over a career which began in 1988 with F.C. Portland and ended in 1999 with the Willamette Valley Firebirds. He also earned two caps with the U.S. national team in 1992 and 1996.
Leonetti attended Gladstone High School where he was the 1987 Oregon State High School player of the Year as a senior. He scored a total of 123 goals during his prep career. After high school, he attended the University of Portland where he played from 1988-1991 under coach Clive Charles. In 1988, his freshman year, he was part of the Portland team which went to the NCAA Final Four only to lose to champion Indiana. During his four seasons with the Pilots, Leonetti scored thirty-seven goals, and is fourth on the school’s all time scoring list. He tops the school’s season and career assists records with 14 and 36, respectively. He was a third team All-American in 1989. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in biology.[1] He was inducted into the University of Portland Athletic Hall of Fame in 2001.[2]
In 1988, while still in college, Leonetti spent the 1988 Western Soccer Alliance season with F.C. Portland, a local semi-pro team. Following his graduation from the University of Portland in 1992, Leonetti signed with the San Francisco Bay Blackhawks of the American Professional Soccer League (APSL) which had been formed by the merger of the WSA and American Soccer League in 1990. [3] While he played in only eight games, scoring two goals, during league play, he added another three goals in CONCACAF Champions' Cup play as the Blackhawks went to the semifinals, only to fall to eventual champions Club América. He also scored a goal for the Blackhawks in the first round of the Professional Cup. He played with the national team in September 1992, but then tore his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) which kept him from playing for nearly a year.
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