Steve Litt is a retired English football defender

Defender (association football)

Within the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....

 who played professionally in the Football League

The Football League

The Football League, also known as the npower Football League for sponsorship reasons, is a league competition featuring professional association football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888, it is the oldest such competition in world football...

, North American Soccer League

North American Soccer League

North American Soccer League was a professional soccer league with teams in the United States and Canada that operated from 1968 to 1984.-History:...

 and Major Indoor Soccer League and coached in the Western Soccer Alliance.

Player

Litt began his career as an apprentice with Blackpool F.C.

Blackpool F.C.

Blackpool Football Club are an English football club founded in 1887 from the Lancashire seaside town of Blackpool. They are competing in the 2011–12 season of the The Championship, the second tier of professional football in England, having been relegated from the Premier League at the end of the...

  In 1972, Litt left Blackpool for Luton Town. He cracked the first team in 1973, but made only fifteen total first team appearances. In 1976, he left England for the United States where he signed with the Minnesota Kicks

Minnesota Kicks

Minnesota Kicks were a professional soccer team that played at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minnesota from 1976 to 1981. The team was a member of the now defunct North American Soccer League. The team had relocated to Minnesota after having been based in Denver, Colorado as the Denver Dynamos...

 of the North American Soccer League

North American Soccer League

North American Soccer League was a professional soccer league with teams in the United States and Canada that operated from 1968 to 1984.-History:...

. He returned to England on loan to Northampton Town F.C.

Northampton Town F.C.

Northampton Town Football Club are an English professional football club based in Northampton, Northamptonshire. They currently play in Football League Two, the lowest league division, after being relegated from League One on the last day of the 2008–09 season...

 during the 1977-1978 season. In 1982, Litt moved to the San Jose Earthquakes for three outdoor and one indoor seasons. In 1984, he returned to Minnesota, this time as a member of the Minnesota Strikers

Minnesota Strikers

The Minnesota Strikers was an American professional soccer team located in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area. The team played one season in the North American Soccer League and 4 seasons in the Major Indoor Soccer League....

 playing in the Major Indoor Soccer League. He retired from playing professionally in the spring of 1985 and turned to coaching.

Coach

In 1985, the San Jose Earthquakes hired Litt as head coach of its reserve team. In 1986, Litt served as the head coach of the Earthquakes in the Western Soccer Alliance. In August 1986, he left the team after going unpaid for over a month. In 2008, he became an assistant coach with the Dakota County Technical College

Dakota County Technical College

Located in Dakota County inside the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area, Dakota County Technical College is a public, two-year technical college with a main campus in Rosemount, Minn., plus additional sites in Eagan and Apple Valley...

 soccer team.

External links

• NASL/MISL stats