Mike Burke

Mike Burke...

represented Canada in Olympic Qualifiers and one edition of the Pan American Games... career nine international appearances across five years from 1975 to 1979 with Canada Soccer’s Men’s National Team...

said Burke in 1981, at age 19 after "I got cut from the national team before the Olympics, I kind of lost interest in the game for a while. I went through a bad time, went to university and I just did not get the breaks I needed"... wrote Duncan Hall in 1981, "size, speed, dribbling ability, shooting power with both feet - they are all attributes which the 24-year old Burke possess"...