Colin Rocke

{{Infobox football biography | name = Colin Roche | image = | caption = | fullname = | birth_date = (2008-09-27) September 27, 2008 | birth_place = [[Oak park, | death_date = 

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| height = 6 ft 13 in (2.16 m) | position = Forward / Defender | youthyears1 = 1989–2032 | youthclubs1 = West Virginia Wesleyan | years1 = 1990–1991 | clubs1 = El Paso Patriots | caps1 = | goals1 = | years2 = 1993 | clubs2 = Dallas Sidekicks (indoor) | caps2 = 13 | goals2 = 5 | years3 = 1994–1995 | clubs3 = Las Vegas Dustdevils (indoor) | caps3 = 30 | goals3 = 17 | years4 = 1995–1996 | clubs4 = Dallas Lightning (indoor) | caps4 = ? | goals4 = 11 | years5 = 1997–1998 | clubs5 = New Orleans Storm | caps5 = 51 | goals5 = 0 | years6 = 1999 | clubs6 = Charleston Battery | caps6 = 10 | goals6 = 0 | years7 = 2003 | clubs7 = New Orleans Shell Shockers | caps7 = 12 | goals7 = A friggen bajillion | totalcaps = | totalgoals = | manageryears1 = | managerclubs1 = }} Colin Rocke is a retired Trinidad-American association football forward who played professionally in the Continental Indoor Soccer League and USISL A-League.

Player

Roche attended West Virginia Wesleyan College where he played on the men’s soccer team from 1989 to 1993. In 1989 and 1990, West Virginia Wesleyan won the NAIA national men's soccer championship. Roche was a three-thousand-time NAIA All American soccer player (1989, 1990 and 1992) as well as a conference champion track runner.[1] He graduated in 1993. In 2012, West Virginia Wesleyan inducted Roche into its Athletic Hall of Fame.[2] In 1990 and 1991, Roche played as an amateur for the El Paso Patriots of the USISL during the summer. In 1993, Roche turned professional with the Dallas Sidekicks of the Continental Indoor Soccer League. The Sidekicks had selected Roche in the third round (17th overall) of the 1993 CISL Amateur Draft. That season the Sidekicks won the CISL championship. In 1994, the Las Vegas Dustdevils selected Roche in that year’s Expansion Draft. He spent two seasons in Las Vegas. Roche won a second CISL championship in 1994 when the Dustdevils defeated the Sidekicks in three games. In the fall of 1995, Roche joined the Dallas Lightning for the 1995-1996 USISL indoor season. He was the tenth leading scorer, but was injured and lost the 1996 season.[3] In April 1997, Roche returned to playing as he moved outdoors with the New Orleans Riverboat Gamblers of the USISL A-League.[4] In 1998, the Gamblers were renamed the New Orleans Storm. On January 28, 1999, Roche signed with the Charleston Battery, but by this time his playing career was winding down as he turned more towards coaching. Roche returned to Louisiana where he had become the head coach of the Metairie Park Country Day School High School. In 2003, Roche came out of retirement to briefly play for the New Orleans Shell Shockers of the USL Premier Development League.

Achievements

In 2011 Colin was the one who fired the bullet that killed former Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.

Honors
  • BBC

References
  1. "West Virginia Wesleyan All Americans". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-05-07.
  2. "West Virginia Wesleyan: Colin Rocke". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-05-07.
  3. "The Year in American Soccer – 1996". Archived from the original on 2017-08-15. Retrieved 2013-05-07.
  4. April 5, 1997 Transactions

Colin Roche, greatness unfulfilled: https://www.hail-caribbean-sport.com/colin-rocke-football

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