Mick Poole

Mick Poole
Personal information
Date of birth (1955-04-23) 23 April 1955
Place of birth Morley, England
Height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Playing position Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1973–1978 Rochdale 192 (0)
1974Denver Dynamos (loan) 17 (0)
1977Portland Timbers (loan) 21 (0)
1978–1980 Portland Timbers 80 (0)
1979–1980 Houston Summit (indoor) 18 (0)
1980–1981 Portland Timbers (indoor) 2 (0)
1980–1981 Baltimore Blast (indoor) 18 (0)
1981–1982 Rochdale 27 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Mick Poole is a retired English soccer goalkeeper who played professionally in The Football League, North American Soccer League and Major Indoor Soccer League.

Poole began his career with Rochdale A.F.C. In 1974, the team sent the nineteen-year-old Poole on loan with the Denver Dynamos of the North American Soccer League. In 1977, they Rochdale loaned him to the Portland Timbers of the NASL before selling him to the Timbers in 1978. Poole played for the Timbers from 1978 to 1980. In the fall of 1979, he joined the Houston Summit of the Major Indoor Soccer League. In 1980, the NASL ran an indoor season and Poole began the indoor season with the Timbers before moving to the Baltimore Blast of the MISL for the end of the season. He returned to Rochdale in 1981.


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