Nico Berg
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Nicolas Berg | ||
| Date of birth | September 11, 1973 | ||
| Place of birth | North Vancouver, Canada | ||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Lynn Valley Falcons | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1992 | London Lasers | 5 | (1) |
| 1992 | Vancouver 86ers | 1 | (0) |
| 1993 | Winnipeg Fury | ||
| 1994–2002 | Vancouver 86ers/Whitecaps | 112 | |
| 2004 | Surrey Pegasus FC | ||
| International career | |||
| 1988–1989 | Canada U16 | 4 | (0) |
| 1991–1992 | Canada U20 | 8 | (0) |
| 1994–1996 | Canada U23 | 5 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Nicolas "Nico" Berg (born September 11, 1973) is a Canadian retired soccer player who played as a midfielder.
Player
[edit]Club
[edit]Played youth soccer with the Lynn Valley Falcons and was a member of the UBC Thunderbirds men's varsity soccer team.[1] Berg played in the Canadian Soccer League in 1992 with the London Lasers.[2] In 1993, he played in the Canadian National Soccer League with Winnipeg Fury.[3] In 1994, Berg joined the Vancouver 86ers in the American Professional Soccer League.[4] Berg did not play in 2000, but returned to the team in 2001. That season, the 86ers were renamed the Whitecamps. Berg retired after the 2002 season. In 2004, he played for the amateur Surrey Pegasus FC when it won the 2004 Canadian National Challenge Cup.
International
[edit]Berg played one game at the 1989 FIFA U-16 World Championship. He went on to appear for Canada at the U-20 and U-23 levels.
Physiotherapist
[edit]In 1997, Berg earned a bachelor's degree in physical therapy from the University of British Columbia. He later gained a masters in physiotherapy from the University of Queensland. He works as a sports physiotherapist.[5]
Career stats
[edit]| Club | Season | League | League | Playoffs | National Cup | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
| Vancouver 86ers | 1994 | APSL | ||||||||
| 1995 | A-League | 8 | 0 | |||||||
| 1996 | ||||||||||
| 1997 | 24 | 0 | ||||||||
| 1998 | 3 | 0 | ||||||||
| 1999 | 26 | 0 | ||||||||
| Vancouver Whitecaps | 2001 | 9 | 0 | |||||||
| 2002 | 11 | 0 | ||||||||
| Career total | ||||||||||
References
[edit]- ^ "Nico Berg - Men's Soccer". University of British Columbia Athletics. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
- ^ "Whitecaps sign Kevan Cameron and Nico Berg". OurSports Central. 2002-04-11. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
- ^ McDonald, Marvin (1993-05-14). "Heavy debts nag Fury". NewspaperArchive.com. Winnipeg Free Press. p. 33. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
- ^ "Nico Berg | SoccerStats.us". soccerstats.us. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
- ^ "Nico Berg B.Sc. (PT)". Archived from the original on 2016-01-03. Retrieved 2013-03-29.
External links
[edit]- Nick Berg – FIFA competition record (archived)
- Nicolas Berg at the Canadian Soccer Association
- 1973 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from North Vancouver
- Soccer people from British Columbia
- American Professional Soccer League players
- Canadian men's soccer players
- London Lasers players
- Winnipeg Fury players
- Vancouver Whitecaps (1986–2010) players
- UBC Thunderbirds men's soccer players
- University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine alumni
- Canadian Soccer League (1987–1992) players
- Canadian National Soccer League players
- A-League (1995–2004) players
- Canada men's youth international soccer players
- Canada men's under-23 international soccer players
- Men's association football midfielders
- Association football physiotherapists