Lyndon Hooper
Bio
Lyndon Fitzgerald Hooper.... soccer family (sister Charmaine)... he was eight years old when he started playing soccer in Zambia... he was 11 years old when his family moved from Zambia to Ottawa, ON... his first club in Canada was the Nepean Hotspurs... he earned a BA in Physical Education from Wilfrid Laurier University in 1990...
honoured by the Canada Soccer Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2011... honoured by the Wilfrid Laurier University Athletics Hall of Fame and the Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame... part of the Canadian team that won a gold medal at the 1989 Jeux de la Francophonie, recognised as a Canada Soccer Team of Distinction... his sister Charmaine Hooper is an honoured member of the Canada Soccer Hall of Fame...
represented Canada in three cycles of FIFA World Cup Qualifiers, one cycle of Olympic Qualifiers and two editions of the Concacaf Gold Cup... career 78 international appearances across 12 years from 1986 to 1997 with Canada Soccer’s Men’s National Team, including 67 international "A" appearances... when he left international football in 1997, he ranked third all-time with 78 international appearances...
club career in Canada, England and USA... with Scarborough GS United, a Canada Soccer National Championships winner (Challenge Trophy in 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)... was part of Canada Soccer’s post-match Guard of Honour on 27 March 2022 to celebrate Canada’s qualification to the men’s 2022 FIFA World Cup (along with nine other former players)...
Honours
Individual Awards
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2012Canada Soccer Centennial Timeline Top 100 Men's Footballers
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2011Canada Soccer Hall of Fame Honoured Player / Joueur honoré
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1995Canada Soccer Award of Merit Recipient / Récipiendaire
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1995Wilfrid Laurier University Athletics Hall of Fame Honoured Member (Athlete - Soccer)
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