Bruce Bates

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Bruce Bates
Personal information
Date of birth (1960-06-13) June 13, 1960 (age 65)
Place of birth British Columbia, Canada
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position Defender
Youth career
1980 Richmond Olympic
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1981 Calgary Boomers 10 (0)
1982 Tampa Bay Rowdies 9 (0)
1983 Tampa Bay Rowdies (indoor) 4 (1)
1983 Calgary Mustangs
1985 New Westminster Q.P.R. (PRSL)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Bruce Bates (born June 13, 1960) is a Canadian soccer player.

Career

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A native of the Vancouver area, Bates played amateur soccer locally for Richmond Olympic and briefly spent time as a reserve player for the Vancouver Whitecaps.[1][2] At age 20, he joined the Calgary Boomers, on the NASL side.[3] He appeared in ten matches that year, but the Boomers folded after one season. In 1982, he joined Calgary teammates Jürgen Stars and Tom Boric on the Tampa Bay Rowdies roster.[4] He also played for the Rowdies during their run to the 1983 Indoor Grand Prix title.[5]

Before the 1983 outdoor season began, he and Peter Gruber were dealt to Calgary Mustangs of the Canadian Professional Soccer League, where he was later named team captain.[6][7] The CPSL folded after only one season.

In 1985, he played in the semi-pro Pacific Rim Soccer League[8] for the New Westminster Queens Park Rangers along with other NASL alumni, Garry Ayre, Peter Stanley, and Carl Shearer.[9] He and the Rangers won the season title with a 16-4-4 record,[10] but fell, 3–0, to Vancouver Columbus in the PSRL President's Cup finals.[11]

Honours

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References

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