Denison Cabral

Denison Cabral (born January 26, 1974 in Florianópolis, Brazil) is a soccer midfielder. He most recently played for the Baltimore Blast indoor soccer team, during the 2009-10 season.

Cabral was playing futsal in his native Brazil when recruited by a Brazilian agent to do so in the U.S as an 18/19 year old. Misrepresented by the agent, he nevertheless played futsal in Florida when a tryout for Continental Indoor Soccer League outfit Washington Warthogs came along and he made the club. From there he was recruited by the USISL's Baltimore Bays to play outdoor soccer, which he did for the summers of 1995 and 1996.

Considered to be the face of the franchise (a billboard on the 1st Mariner Arena shows him on a team advertisement), Cabral is the all-time leading point scorer in Baltimore’s franchise history with 709 points.

In 2006, Cabral became the coach for the boys' varsity soccer team at St. Mary's High School in Annapolis, Maryland. Also in 2006, Denison started the Denison Cabral Futsal Academy currently located at the MD Sportsplex in Millersville, MD.

In May 2006, he became a naturalized American citizen.

External links

• PressBox Balitmore with an article on Cabral
• Denison's Futsal Academy home page.