Eddy Berdusco

Infobox football biography
playername=Eddy Berdusco


fullname=Edward Berdusco
nickname=
dateofbirth=birth date and age|1969|9|8
cityofbirth=Mississauga
countryofbirth=Canada
position=striker
years=1988-1992
1993
1994
1994
?
?
1996
1997
1998-2001
?
clubs=North York Rockets
Toronto Blizzard
Foshan Fosidi
Toronto Rockets
? (in Austria)
FC Wil
Montreal Impact
Milwaukee Rampage
Toronto Olympians
Toronto Supra
caps(goals)=? (54)
? (?)
? (?)
? (?)
? (?)
? (8)
? (?)
? (?)
? (?)
? (?)
nationalyears=1988
1992
1992-1997
nationalteam=Canada U-20
Canada U-23
Canada
nationalcaps(goals)=5 (2)
4 (1)
18 (4)
pcupdate=14 May 2008
ntupdate=14 May 2008

Edward Berdusco (born 8 September, 1969 in Mississauga) is a retired professional footballer from Canada.

Berdusco is famous in Canada for being the player who scored the equaliser against Brazil to secure the Canadians a 1-1 draw in a 1994 World Cup tune-up match played at Commonwealth Stadium.

The son of Italian immigrants, Berdusco played 18 times for Canadian national soccer team|Canada between 1992 and 1997, scoring 4 goals.

Berdusco was the original Canadian Soccer League's 3rd all-time highest goal scorer with 54 from 1988 through 1992 as a member of North York Rockets. In 1988 he was the league's 5th leading scorer with 11 goals, in 1990 the 6h leading scorer with 9 goals, in 1991 the league's 2nd leading scorer with 14 goals, and in the league's final season, 1992, hed led everyone with 14. He then played for the APSL's Toronto Blizzard in 1993, in China in the Jia League with now defunct Foshan Fosidi (along with fellow Canadian international Ian Carter) in 1994, then again in the APSL in the summer of the '94 with the Toronto Rockets. He was with FC Wil in Switzerland, and after that in Austria. He returned to North America to play the summer of 1996 with the Montreal Impact, and finished the A-League sixth leading scorer with 19 points (on 8 goals and 3 assists). He also played in the A-League with the Milwaukee Rampage for the 1997 season.

Berdusco ended his pro career in the semi-pro Canadian Professional Soccer League with the Toronto Olympians, where he played from 1998 to 2001, and then with the Toronto Supra.

ources

* [http://www.canadasoccer.com/eng/nationals/profile.asp?playerid=714&sub=3 Canadian Soccer Association profile] Other information gathered from an "Eddy Berdusco" yahoo search was used to write this page.

Persondata
NAME = Berdusco, Eddy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES =
SHORT DESCRIPTION = soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH = 8 September, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH = Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
DATE OF DEATH =
PLACE OF DEATH =