Daniel O'Brien (born April 5, 1986, in Shoreview, Minnesota) is an American soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Minneapolis City SC in the NPSL.
O’Brien attended Mounds View High School in Arden Hills, Minnesota where he was a two time All State soccer player.
O’Brien began his collegiate soccer career in 2004 with Coastal Carolina University.
In the summer of 2007, he played for the Des Moines Menace of the Premier Development League.
[1] After the fall of the Minnesota Thunder side due to financial problems O'Brien in January 2010 took the chance to move to New Zealand and join Western Suburbs FC working with Dutch coach John Kila.