Kevin Terry is a retired English-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 ...

forward and

referee A referee is an official, in a variety of sports and competition, responsible for enforcing the rules of the sport, including sportsmanship decisions such as ejection. The official tasked with this job may be known by a variety of other titl ...

who played professionally in the Major Indoor Soccer League, American Soccer League and United Soccer League. He spent ten seasons as a

Major League Soccer Major League Soccer (MLS) is a men's professional soccer league sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation, which represents the sport's highest level in the United States. The league comprises 29 teams—26 in the U.S. and 3 in Canada ...

and seven years as a

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official.

Player

Born in England, Terry moved to the United States when he was fifteen. In 1979, he signed with the Cleveland Force of the Major Indoor Soccer League. He played three seasons with the Force. He later played for the Cleveland Cobras of the American Soccer League and the

Oklahoma City Stampede The Oklahoma City Slickers was the name given to two different American soccer clubs based in Oklahoma City. The first team competed in the second American Soccer League in 1982 and 1983, and as the Oklahoma City Stampede in the United Soccer Lea ...

of the United Soccer League.

Referee

In 1986, he became a referee with the Major Indoor Soccer League. In 1996, Terry became a referee with

. Before retiring in 2005, he had officiated the

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

and

2002 MLS Cup MLS Cup 2002 was the seventh edition of the MLS Cup, the championship match of Major League Soccer (MLS), which took place on October 20, 2002. It was hosted at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, and contested by the New England Re ...

. He also served as a

referee from 1998 to 2004. In 2002, he was named the MLS Referee of the Year.MLS: Kevin Terry is Referee of the Year
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Terry, Kevin 1958 births Living people American soccer coaches American men's soccer players American soccer referees American Soccer League (1933–1983) players Cleveland Cobras players Cleveland Force (original MISL) players Major Indoor Soccer League (1978–1992) players Oklahoma City Slickers players United Soccer League (1984–85) players Men's association football forwards Major League Soccer referees