Frank Yallop

Frank Walter Yallop... he was seven years old when he started playing soccer in New Westminster... earned his USSF Coaching A Licence...

honoured by the Canada Soccer Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2005... honoured by the Soccer Hall of Fame of British Columbia, the San Jose Earthquakes Hall of Fame, and the Ipswich Town FC Hall of Fame...

represented two cycles of FIFA World Cup Qualifiers... represented Canada at three Concacaf Gold Cups, including the inaugural edition in 1991... won the Three Nations Cup in 1990... career 54 international appearances across eight years from 1990 to 1997 with Canada Soccer’s Men’s National Team, including 52 international “A” appearances... represented England at one UEFA youth tournament...

club career in Canada, England and USA... with Ipswich Town FC, an English Second Division winner (1991-92 title to earn promotion to the Premier League)... with the Tampa Bay Mutiny, an MLS Supporters’ Shield winner (1996)...

served as Canada team staff at one FIFA youth tournament (U-20 at Netherlands 2005)…

featured in a Canada record crowd of 51,936 spectators at Edmonton’s Commonwealth Stadium on 5 June 1994, the largest crowd ever for a Canadian national team event played in Canada (Canada drew 1:1 with Brazil just six weeks before they won the FIFA World Cup)...

honoured by Ipswich Town FC with a testimonial match on 9 August 1992...

said Mark Watson in the North Shore News in 2013, “you’re a product of all of your environments. You may take more out of certain coaches and I will take a lot out of Frank Yallop because he was very successful”...