David Pfeil is a retired American

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who played professionally in the

USISL The United States Interregional Soccer League (USISL) was a semi-professional men's outdoor soccer league that played six seasons from 1989 to 1994. It was the first outdoor league to be operated by the organization known today as the United ...

, Major Indoor Soccer League and

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. He was a member of the

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at the

1987 FIFA World Youth Championship The 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship took place in Chile from 10 to 25 October 1987. The 1987 championship was the 6th edition of the FIFA World Youth Championship and won for the first time by Yugoslavia. Remarkably, in the course of the tourn ...

. Pfeil graduated from Kimball High School where he was a four-year varsity soccer player. Pfeil attended

Southern Methodist University Southern Methodist University (SMU) is a Private university, private research university in Dallas, Texas, United States, with a satellite campus in Taos County, New Mexico. SMU was founded on April 17, 1911, by the Methodist Episcopal Church, ...

, playing on the men's soccer team from 1986 to 1990. In 1991, Pfeil joined the

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of the

. He played for them through 1994. In the fall of 1991, he signed with the Dallas Sidekicks of the Major Indoor Soccer League. The MISL collapsed at the end of the season and the Sidekicks moved to the

. Pfeil continued to play for the Sidekicks in 1993 and 1994. Pfeil played for the

at the

.United States roster at the 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pfeil, David Living people 1967 births American soccer coaches American men's soccer players Continental Indoor Soccer League players Dallas Rockets players Dallas Sidekicks (original MISL) players Dallas Sidekicks (CISL) players Major Indoor Soccer League (1978–1992) players SMU Mustangs men's soccer players USISL players Men's association football midfielders 20th-century American sportsmen