Barry Sadler... he was three months old when his family moved from Calgary to Vancouver in 1942; his family moved then moved from Vancouver to Victoria after the War in 1946... earned Masters of Social Work from the University of British Columbia...
career XX international appearances across 4 years from 1968 to 1971, including XX international "A" appearances with Canada Soccer's Men's National Team…
a three-time Pacific Coast League winner (1966-67, 1967-68, 1971-72) and two-time Pacific Coast International Championship winner for the J.F. Kennedy Trophy (1966, 1967)... a three-time Victoria all-star selection against touring teams... he was the second goalkeeper to surpass 50 career clean sheets in the Pacific Coast League (after Ken Pears)... he led the Pacific Coast League in clean sheets three times (1961-62, 1965-66, 1968-69), notably setting the single-season record in 1961-62 (13 clean sheets) and then again in 1968-69 (14 clean sheets)... he retired as the Pacific Coast League’s all-time clean sheets leader (he posted 85 clean sheets from 1961 to 1972)...
said Ken Howarth in 1962, Sadler “has all the equipment to blossom into one of our all-time great goalkeepers”... as noted in the headlines of the Vancouver Sun in 1969, “Sadler establishes himself as the best”... wrote Roy Jukich in 1972, “Barry Sadler was known as the shutout king of soccer in the early 1960s. He recorded 13 shutouts in 21 games in his rookie season and in the Pacific Coast League went on to become one of the province’s top netminders”...
said Barry Sadler in 2017 of the Kennedy Trophy winning season, “it just clicked for us that year. It was a true team effort”...
said Peter Greco in 2018, “Barry Sadler was a very good positional goalkeeper and he seemed to be in the right place at the right time for headers or crosses or corner kicks”... said Gary Thompson in 2018, “Barry Sadler was an excellent goalkeeper. He was always battling Ken Pears for the league lead in shutouts. When he played in goal for us, I would have trouble scoring on him in practice. Even on goals that went into the bottom corner, he would get a finger or two on it”...
he was initially selected to play for Canada for FIFA World Cup Qualifiers in 1968...
