Andrew Mittendorf is an American
football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
player played professionally in the United States and Sweden.
Youth
Mittendorf attended
Lehigh University
Lehigh University (LU) is a private research university in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. The university was established in 1865 by businessman Asa Packer and was originally affiliated with the Epis ...
, playing on the men' soccer team from 1995 to 1998. He began his collegiate career as a defender and ended it as a high scoring forward. He was the 1997
Patriot League
The Patriot League is a collegiate athletic conference comprising private institutions of higher education and two United States service academies based in the Northeastern United States. Outside the Ivy League, it is among the most selective gr ...
Player of the Year. His senior season, he led the NCAA in goals per game. In 1999, he was named to the Patriot League Men's Soccer All-Decade team.
Professional
In 1999, the
Colorado Rapids
The Colorado Rapids are an American professional soccer club based in the Denver metropolitan area. The Rapids compete in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Western Conference. Founded in 1995, as part of the Anschutz Corporation, la ...
selected Mittendorf in the first round (eighth overall) of the
1999 MLS College Draft The 1999 Major League Soccer College Draft was held on February 6 and 7, 1999 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The first round of the draft took place on February 6 with the second and third rounds on February 7. The College Draft was followed by the ...
. The
Lehigh Valley Steam also selected him in the
USL A-League
The USL Championship (USLC) is a professional men's soccer league in the United States that began its inaugural season in 2011. The USL is sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation (U.S. Soccer) as a Division II league since 2017, pl ...
draft. Mittendorf signed with the Rapids who released him on March 29, 1999, during a pre-season roster reduction. He then joined the
Hershey Wildcats
Hershey Wildcats were a professional soccer team, based in Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States, that played in the USL A-League between 1997 and 2001. The team was owned by Hershey Entertainment and Resorts Company. The team played in Hersheypar ...
of the A-League. In 2000, he played for the
Long Island Rough Riders
The Long Island Rough Riders are an American soccer team based in South Huntington, New York, United States. Founded in 1994, the team plays in USL League Two, the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid.
The team plays its home games at Hofst ...
. In 2001, he played for
Värtans IK
Värtans IK is a Swedish football club located in Stockholm. The club was formed in 1924.
Background
Since their foundation Värtans IK has participated in the upper and lower divisions of the Swedish football league system. The club currently ...
in Sweden.
2001 Vartans IK
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In 2002, Mittendorf co-founded Coastal Soccer which he sold in 2006.
References
External links
Where are they now? - Andrew Mittendorf '99
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1977 births
Living people
American men's soccer players
American expatriate men's soccer players
Hershey Wildcats players
Lehigh Mountain Hawks men's soccer players
Long Island Rough Riders players
A-League (1995–2004) players
USL Second Division players
Värtans IK players
Expatriate men's footballers in Sweden
Soccer players from New York (state)
Colorado Rapids draft picks
Men's association football forwards