Carl Bussey is a retired American

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who played professionally in

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and the

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. He played three games for the U.S. at the

1995 FIFA U-17 World Championship The FIFA U-17 World Championship 1995, the sixth edition of the tournament, was held in the cities of Guayaquil, Portoviejo, Quito, Ibarra, Ecuador, Ibarra, Cuenca, Ecuador, Cuenca, and Riobamba in Ecuador between 3 and 20 August 1995. Players bo ...

. Bussey graduated from

Plano East Senior High School Plano East Senior High School (commonly known as East, Plano East, or PESH) is a public secondary school in Plano, Texas (USA) serving high school juniors and seniors, as well as freshmen and sophomores as a part of the IB World School (beginni ...

. He attended

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where he was a 1999 and 2000 First Team All American soccer player. On February 10, 2002, the

Dallas Burn Dallas () is the third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people. It is the largest city in and seat of Dallas County wi ...

selected Bussey in the first round (ninth overall) of the 2002 MLS SuperDraft. He played nine games for Dallas in 2002, but saw no first team game time in 2003 before being released in June. He signed with the

Virginia Beach Mariners The Virginia Beach Mariners were an American football (soccer), soccer club, who formerly played in the USL First Division of the United Soccer Leagues, the second division in the US Soccer hierarchy behind Major League Soccer. On March 30, 2007 t ...

of the

for the remainder of the season. In 2005, he played for the amateur Dallas Roma F.C. He also played in the South Korea First Division. Bussey played three games for the

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at the

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* * Living people 1978 births American soccer players FC Dallas players Major League Soccer players SMU Mustangs men's soccer players A-League (1995–2004) players Virginia Beach Mariners players United States men's youth international soccer players FC Dallas draft picks All-American men's college soccer players Association football midfielders {{US-footy-midfielder-stub