Personal information | |||
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Full name | Steven Leonard Snow | ||
Date of birth | March 2, 1971 | ||
Place of birth | United States | ||
Playing position | Forward | ||
Youth career | |||
1989 | Indiana Hoosiers | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1990–1992 | Standard Liège | 0 | (0) |
1992–1993 | FC Boom | 7 | (3) |
1993–1995 | Chicago Power (indoor) | 43 | (30) |
National team | |||
1987 | United States U16 | 3 | (1) |
1988–1989 | United States U20 | 11 | (7) |
1988–1989 | United States | 2 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
Stephen Leonard Snow (born March 2, 1971) is a retired American soccer forward who was a dominant goal scorer at the high school, college and junior national level. He played professionally in Belgium and in the United States. He also earned two caps with the U.S. national team.
Snow was born and grew up in Illinois, and attended Hoffman Estates High School from 1985 to 1989 where he played soccer. While playing for Hoffman, Snow scored in 49 consecutive games, ranking him first on the Illinois High School Association's list of consecutive matches scored in. He finished his high school career with 92 goals.
After graduating from high school, Snow attended Indiana University where he played NCAA soccer. As a freshman in 1989, he was the NCAA post-season tournament leading goal scorer with 4 goals and 1 assist. That year the Indiana Hoosiers lost to Santa Clara 1-0 in the semifinals.
Snow left Indiana after his freshman year to pursue a professional career in Belgium where he signed with Standard Liège. He had no first team appearances for Standard and moved to Boom following the 1992 Summer Olympics. After scoring 3 goals in his first 7 games, he suffered a major knee injury and returned to the U.S. where he had at least two surgeries to repair his anterior cruciate ligament. He never returned to play with Boom and instead signed with the Chicago Power of the National Professional Soccer League on December 10, 1993. He played thirty games, scoring twenty-seven goals, in 1994-1995, but saw time in only nine games, scoring four goals, in the 1995-1996 season before knee problems cut his playing career short. Snow retired from soccer and opened a pizza parlor on the north side of Indianapolis.