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Victor Moreland

Vic Moreland
Personal information
Full name Victor "the legend" Moreland
Date of birth (1957-06-15) 15 June 1957 (age 59)
Place of birth Belfast, Northern Ireland
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Playing position Midfielder / Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1973–1978 Glentoran 159 (27)
1978 Tulsa Roughnecks (loan) 28 (0)
1978–1980 Derby County 42 (1)
1980–1984 Tulsa Roughnecks 136 (14)
1980–1981 Tulsa Roughnecks (indoor) 18 (7)
1984–1985 Chicago Sting (indoor) 38 (11)
1985–1988 Dallas Sidekicks (indoor) 144 (27)
1988–1991 Wichita Wings (indoor) 125 (20)
1989–1991 Fort Lauderdale Strikers
1991–1992 Tulsa Ambush (indoor)
1994–1996 Tulsa Roughnecks
National team
1978 Northern Ireland U-21 1 (0)
1978–1979 Northern Ireland 6 (1)
Teams managed
1990–1991 Fort Lauderdale Strikers (assistant)
1991–1992 Tulas Ambush
1995–1996 Tulsa Roughnecks
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Victor "Vic" Moreland (born 15 June 1957 in Belfast) is a retired professional footballer from Northern Ireland who began his career in Northern Ireland, spent two seasons in the Football League before moving to the United States. He then played six seasons in the North American Soccer League, seven in the Major Indoor Soccer League as well as several seasons in several lower division indoor and outdoor leagues.

Moreland began his career as a midfielder with Glentoran in 1973. In 1978, Glentoran sent him on loan to the Tulsa Roughnecks of the North American Soccer League. He returned to Ireland and began the 1978–1979 season with them before Glentoran sold him and Billy Caskey to Derby County for £90,000 in September 1978. He played two seasons with Derby before the team sold his contract, along with Caskey's to the Tulsa Roughnecks for $100,000 in 1980.

The NASL ran an indoor season during the 1980–1981 winter. Up to this time, Moreland had played as a defensive midfielder, but beginning with the 1981 NASL outdoor season, he moved permanently to the backline. In 1984, he was named to the All League Second Team. In the fall of 1984, he moved to the Chicago Sting of the Major Indoor Soccer League. On 18 September 1985, the Sting sold his contract to the Dallas Sidekicks. On 15 June 1988, the Sidekicks released him to reduce the team's player salaries. He signed with the Wichita Wings on 1 July 1988.

In June 1989, he returned to outdoor soccer with the Fort Lauderdale Strikers of the American Soccer League. That year, the Strikers won the league title, then defeated the San Diego Nomads of the Western Soccer League for the first national outdoor championship since the demise of the NASL in 1984. On 18 June 1989, the Cleveland Crunch selected Moreland in the MISL expansion draft. However, he refused to sign with Cleveland and the Crunch allowed him to sign with the Wings in September 1989 in return for an undisclosed amount of cash and the Wing's first round selection in the 1990 MISL Draft. He remained with the Wings until the spring of 1991. In the summer of 1990 and 1991, he played for the Strikers, this time also adding duties as an assistant coach.


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