Ricci Greenwood is a retired U.S.

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player who played in

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, USISL and the National Professional Soccer League. Greenwood grew up in Washington state. He attended Federal Way High School where he was an All State soccer and All Conference basketball player. Following high school, he took classes, but did not play soccer, at Highline Community College. However, he continued to play club soccer with FC Heat which won the Washington State U-19 championship. In 1992, he entered Seattle Pacific University. He was a 1995 first team All American. In March 1996, the Columbus Crew selected Greenwood in the second round (20th overall) in the

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. For 14 years he held the team record for least amount of time on field with seven minutes before being released. However, this record was broken in June 2010 by Sergio Herrera who played just 1 minute in his time with the Crew. He may have spent some of the season on loan to the

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of the USISL during the season.June 7, 1996 Deals
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of the National Professional Soccer League for the 1996–97 season. In February 1997, the

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took him in the second round (17th overall) of the

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, but never signed him. He then spent the 1997 season with the

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. In 1998, he played for the Hampton Roads Mariners of the USISL. From 1999–2001 he played for

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in Germany. Greenwood is now a soccer agent wit
3 Star Sports & Entertainment Management
Greenwood formerly held the distinction of having the least time on-field in Crew history at a mere 7 minutes. Sergio Herrera now holds the franchise mark with a single minute played, coming in 2010.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Greenwood, Ricci 1972 births Living people American men's soccer players Columbus Crew players Columbus Invaders players El Paso Patriots players Virginia Beach Mariners players National Professional Soccer League (1984–2001) players Ohio Xoggz players Seattle Pacific Falcons men's soccer players A-League (1995–2004) players Major League Soccer players Soccer players from Seattle Columbus Crew draft picks Sporting Kansas City draft picks 1. FC Nürnberg players Men's association football forwards Men's association football midfielders