Professional
Askew joined the Washington Dips of the North American Soccer League for the 1977 season. He played for the Dips two more season, 1979 and 1980 before moving to the Montreal Manic for the 1981 season. In 1981, he signed with the expansion Baltimore Blast of Major Indoor Soccer League, playing only one season of indoor soccer. In 1982, he moved to the Georgia Generals of the second American Soccer League, but was back in the NASL for the short lived Team America in 1983. In 1984, the last year of the NASL's existence, he played for the Tampa Bay Rowdies. With the collapse of the NASL following the 1984 season, Askew moved to the amateur Spartans of the Northern Virginia Soccer League. In July 1987, Askew signed with F.C. Washingt as the team prepared for the first season of the newly established American Soccer League in 1988. By the beginning of the new league in the spring of 1988, the team had been renamed the Washington Stars. Askew spent two seasons with the Stars. He was a 1988 ASL All Star.
Read more about this topic: Sonny Askew
Famous quotes containing the word professional:
“In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American—on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I’ve seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.”
—Anthony Storr (b. 1920)
“... all professional ideologies are high-minded. Hunters, for instance, would not dream of calling themselves the butchers of the woods.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)