Elson Seale is a Barbados-American

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who played in the

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, American Soccer League and Major Indoor Soccer League. He is currently an independent businessman in the

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area. Seale attended

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, graduating in 1971. In 1999, he was named by ''

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'' as one of the top ten New Jersey high school soccer players of the 1970s. He then attended

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, where he played on the men's soccer team from 1974 to 1977. He was a 1973 Honorable Mention (third team), 1974 Second Team and 1975 First-Team All-American. He graduated in 1976. He was inducted into the school's Athletic Hall of Fame in 2005. He began his professional career in 1978 with the

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of the

. In 1979, he moved indoors with the Philadelphia Fever of the Major Indoor Soccer League. In 1981, he returned to outdoor soccer with the

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of the American Soccer League. He then finished his career with the Kansas City Comets of MISL. He may have also spent time in the German

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. In 1989, he founded Packaging Solutions in

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. In 1997, he founded Bajan Industries, also in Kansas City, while remaining CEO and president of Packaging Solutions.''BUSH PUSHES TAX-CUT PLAN AT CARD PLANT'' Belleville News-Democrat, The (IL) - Tuesday, March 27, 2001

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