John Pisani is a retired 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 ...

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

who played professionally in the

North American Soccer League The North American Soccer League may refer to: *North American Soccer League (1968–1984), a former Division I league *North American Soccer League (2011–2017) The North American Soccer League (NASL) was a professional men's soccer league b ...

. Pisani graduated from Christian Brothers College High School. Between 1963 and 1966, he scored 138 goals in 122 games. He then attended

St. Louis University Saint Louis University (SLU) is a private Jesuit research university with campuses in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, and Madrid, Spain. Founded in 1818 by Louis William Valentine DuBourg, it is the oldest university west of the Mississip ...

where he played on the men's soccer team from 1967 to 1969. He was a member of the 1967 and 1969 NCAA championship teams and is a member of the Billikens Soccer Hall of Fame. In 1999, he was inducted into the St. Louis Soccer Hall of Fame. In 1970, he signed with the St. Louis Stars of the

. He played for them until 1972 and again from 1974 to 1975.

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1947 births Living people American men's soccer players North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players St. Louis Stars (soccer) players Saint Louis University alumni Saint Louis Billikens men's soccer players Men's association football midfielders Soccer players from St. Louis {{US-footy-midfielder-stub