Jim Zylker (born January 11, 1951 in

San Francisco, California San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

) is a retired American soccer player who spent two seasons in the

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. He was also a member of the United States soccer team at the

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Youth

Zylker grew up in

. He graduated from

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and first attended

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where he was a two-time community college All-American. He transferred to

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where he played three seasons (1971-1973) on the men’s soccer team. He was a 1972 second team All American and holds the school’s single season assists record. He was inducted into the SJSU Athletic Hall of Fame in 2004. In 1971, he joined the United States Olympic soccer team as it prepared for the 1972 Olympics. He played the final United States group game, a 7-0 loss to West Germany. In 1975, he returned to the Olympic team as it failed to qualify for the

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. He played seven games in total with the United States Olympic team. Zykler played for the San Francisco Vikings, a club founded by his grandfather. In 1975, he signed with the San Jose Earthquakes of the

. He played fifteen games that season. He began the 1976 season in San Jose before being traded to the

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midway through the season. He has coached the

women’s soccer team.

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NASL Stats
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