Brian Pederson (born May 6, 1981 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota) is an American

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 who played for

Rochester Thunder Rochester Thunder was an American soccer team based in Rochester, Minnesota, United States. Founded in 2008, the team played in the USL Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, in the Heartland Division o ...

in the

USL Premier Development League USL League Two (USL2), formerly the Premier Development League (PDL), is a semi-professional developmental soccer league sponsored by United Soccer Leagues in the United States and Canada, forming part of the United States soccer league syste ...

Career

College and Amateur

Pederson attended Roosevelt High School and played collegiate soccer at

Salem International University Salem University is a private for-profit university in Salem, West Virginia. It has about 250 students on campus and about 600 online students that are enrolled in undergraduate as well as graduate programs. The university was founded by the Sev ...

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where he was a three-year captain and was selected to the All-Conference and All-Region teams. He also spent the 2003 and 2004 seasons with the

Sioux Falls Spitfire Sioux Falls Spitfire was an American soccer team, founded in 2001. The team was a member of the United Soccer Leagues Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, until 2007, when the team left the league a ...

of the

Professional

Pederson signed with the Minnesota Thunder of the

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in 2007, and spent the next two seasons playing with the team, but only made one first team appearance, clocking just 18 minutes of field time. In 2009 Pederson signed with Minnesota's development team,

, in their inaugural campaign in the

. Pederson scored the first goal in Rochester's franchise history on May 9, 2009, in a game against Des Moines Menace.

Personal

Pederson also was the assistant coach at Andover High School in

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. He is also owner and operator of his own sports soccer company, A-game Soccer, LLC.

External links

Minnesota Thunder Player Profile

References

1981 births American soccer players USL First Division players USL League Two players Living people Minnesota Thunder players Rochester Thunder players Sioux Falls Spitfire players Men's association football defenders {{US-footy-defender-stub