Elson Seale is a Barbados-American

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forward 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 Pennsylvania Stoners 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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{{DEFAULTSORT:Seale, Elson Living people 1955 births American men's soccer players American Soccer League (1933–1983) players Barbadian emigrants to the United States Major Indoor Soccer League (1978–1992) players North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players Sportspeople from Maplewood, New Jersey Pennsylvania Stoners players Portland Timbers (1975–1982) players Philadelphia Fever (MISL) players Jefferson Rams men's soccer players Kansas City Comets (1979–1991) players Sportspeople from Bridgetown All-American college men's soccer players Men's association football forwards Soccer players from Essex County, New Jersey 20th-century American sportsmen Columbia High School (New Jersey) alumni