Barry Wallace (footballer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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English footballer
Date of Birth: 17-Apr-1959
Place of Birth: London
Date of Death: 17-Oct-2006
Profession: association football player
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Barry Wallace (footballer)
- Barry Wallace (17 April 1959 – 17 October 2006) was an English football defender who played professionally in the Football League, North American Soccer League and Major Indoor Soccer League.
- After his retirement from playing, Wallace spent the rest of his life coaching youth soccer teams. In 1975, Wallace signed with Queens Park Rangers at the age of sixteen.
- He spent two seasons in the QPR youth system before graduating to the first team in 1977.
- He played twenty-five first team games over three seasons.
- In 1980, he moved to the United States to sign with the Tulsa Roughnecks of the North American Soccer League.
- He remained with the Roughnecks until traded to the Minnesota Strikers during the 1984 season.
- Wallace was named to four all-NASL teams, including the 1983 Best XI.
- In Soccer Bowl '83 he assisted on the game-winning goal by Njego Pesa.
- He finished the 1984 outdoor season with the Strikers, then began the 1984–1985 indoor season in Minnesota before being sent to the Wichita Wings in January 1985.
- On 20 October 1987, Wallace signed as a free agent with the Kansas City Comets.
- In June 1988, Wallace returned to outdoor soccer with the Fort Lauderdale Strikers of the American Soccer League.
- He rejoined the Comets as a free agent in January 1989.
- In June 1989, he moved to the Tulsa Renegades of the Southwest Outdoor Soccer League.
- At the time, Wallace lived in Tulsa.
- In July 1989, Wallace signed as a free agent with the Tacoma Stars of MISL.
- He joined the team at the end of the SOSL playoffs in August.
- On 23 December 1989, the Stars traded Wallace to the Kansas City Comets in exchange for Kia and Gerry Gray.
- The Comets released Wallace at the end of the season.
- In January 1991, he signed with the Tulsa Renegades which were in the midst of the 1990–91 Sunbelt Independent Soccer League season.
- In December 1991, he moved to the Tulsa Ambush of the National Professional Soccer League.
- In 1993, he played for the Tulsa Roughnecks in the USISL.
- In December 1994, the Wichita Wings signed Wallace to a short term contract after the team was decimated by injuries.
- In 1995, he returned to the Tulsa Roughnecks.
- He finished his professional career with the Roughnecks during the 1996 USISL outdoor season. Wallace died from cancer in Kansas in 2006.
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