Robbie Zipp, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Robbie Zipp

American soccer player

Date of Birth: 07-Sep-1963

Place of Birth: United States of America, United States

Profession: association football referee, association football player

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Robbie Zipp

  • Robert Zipp is a retired U.S.
  • soccer player who currently serves as a youth soccer referee. Zipp attended O'Dea High School in Seattle, Washington where he was a four year varsity letterman on the boys' soccer team.
  • He was also a two year letterman on the football team.
  • Additionally, Parade Magazine selected Zipp as a high school All-American soccer player in 1980 and 1981.
  • After graduating from high school, he was drafted in the first round of the North American Soccer League (NASL) draft.
  • Records don’t show which team drafted him.
  • However in 1981, Zipp was a member of Washington Diplomats.[1] Zipp then played the 1981-1982 NASL indoor season with the Seattle Sounders; however, he never appeared in an outdoor game with the Sounders.[2] The Sounders folded at the end of the 1983 NASL season and in 1984, Zipp joined F.C.
  • Seattle for the F.C.
  • Seattle Challenge '84.
  • This four team round-robin series pitted F.C.
  • Seattle, an independent local Seattle “super club” against the New York Cosmos, Vancouver Whitecaps and Minnesota Strikers.
  • F.C.
  • Seattle was largely stocked with ex-NASL players put out of work by the disintegration of the NASL. In 1985, F.C.
  • Seattle joined with several other independent west coast clubs to form the Western Soccer Alliance (WSA).
  • Zipp continued with the team this season, becoming the team captain after former captain Jeff Durgan was released following the team’s game with the Canadian national soccer team.
  • In 1986, Zipp moved to the San Jose Earthquakes.
  • He remained with the Earthquakes through the 1988 WSA season, after which the Earthquakes folded.Since retiring from playing professionally, Zipp has remained active as a youth soccer referee.
  • He is currently an AYSA referee coordinator.[3] In 2004, O’Dea High School inducted Zipp into the school’s Athletic Wall of Honor.[4]

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