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Erhardt Kapp
Full name	Erhardt Kapp
Date of birth	June 16, 1959 (1959-06-16) (age 48)
Place of birth	United States
Playing position	Defender
Youth clubs
1977-1980	Blau-Weiss Gottschee Connecticut
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1981-1983 1984-1986 1986-1990	New York Cosmos Pittsburgh Spirit (indoor) Los Angeles Lazers (indoor)
National team
1983-1985	United States	5 (1)
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Erhardt Kapp (born June 16, 1959) is a retired U. S. soccer defender and current youth soccer coach. Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered In Association football (soccer a defender is a player who tries to prevent the other team from scoring He was also a member of the 1984 U. S. Olympic soccer team.

Kapp played for the New York based Kolping Soccer Club and Blau-Weiss Gottschee as a child. Kapp attended the University of Connecticut from 1977-1980 where he played on the men’s soccer team under the legendary Joe Morrone. The University of Connecticut ( Connecticut or UConn) is the State of Connecticut 's Land-grant university. He was named a first team All American in 1981. The Division I First-Team All-Americans are the best eleven U He was also a second team All American in 1980 and earned honorable mention in 1978.

The New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League (NASL) selected Kapp in the first round of the 1981 NASL College Draft. The New York Cosmos (1971–1985 known simply as the Cosmos for the 1977 and 1978 seasons was a soccer franchise based in New York City and its suburbs that operated North American Soccer League (NASL was a professional soccer League with teams in the United States of America (U He played with the Cosmos through the end of the 1983. On November 16, 1983, the Cosmos released Kapp because of his inability to break into the team’s starting lineup. ^[1] In December 1983, Kapp signed with the Pittsburgh Spirit of the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL). The Pittsburgh Spirit were an indoor Soccer team based out of Pittsburgh and were one of the original six teams that played in the Major Indoor Soccer League This article is about the 1978-1992 Major Indoor Soccer League. He moved to the Los Angeles Lazers in 1986 and remained with the team through 1990. The Los Angeles Lazers were a Soccer team based out of Los Angeles that played in the Major Indoor Soccer League from 1982 to 1989

Kapp was a member of the U.S. Olympic soccer team at the 1984 Summer Olympics where he played all three games. The United States was the host nation of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles California. The 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, were an International Multi-sport event held in Los Angeles, The U. S. went 1-1-1 and failed to make the second round.

Kapp also earned five caps with the U.S. national team between 1983 and 1985. A cap is an appearance for a select team such as a school county or international team in sports The United States men's national soccer team is the national Soccer team of the United States for men and is controlled by the United States Soccer His first cap came in the only U. S. game in 1983, a 2-0 win over Haiti. Kapp came on for Alan Merrick. Alan Ronald Merrick (born 20 June, 1950) is a retired English-American Soccer defender. He then played three games in 1984, scoring in a 4-0 blowout of the Netherland Antilles. The Netherlands Antilles national football team is the national team of the Netherlands Antilles and is controlled by the Nederlands Antilliaanse Voetbal Unie His last cap came on May 15, 1985 in a victory over Trinidad and Tobago

He currently coaches youth soccer. The Trinidad and Tobago national football team, nicknamed The Soca Warriors, is the national team of Trinidad and Tobago and is controlled by the Trinidad

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