Peter Short (27 October 1944 – 22 February 1984) was an English professional footballer who played as a defender and a forward.
Born in Liverpool, Short played professionally in the United States and Canada for the Philadelphia Spartans, the Cleveland Stokers, the Dallas Tornado, the Rochester Lancers, the Denver Dynamos, the Vancouver Whitecaps and the Minnesota Kicks.
[4] Short scored the first goal in the first game of the National Professional Soccer League, held on 16 April 1967.
[5] Short was shot in the chest and killed during an attempted robbery at his cloth cutting business near the Coliseum in Los Angeles in 1984.
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