Rick Davis

Richard Dean Davis (born November 24, 1958) is an American former soccer midfielder, and former captain of the U.S. national team for much of the 1980s.

[5] In 1983, the St. Louis Steamers of the Major Indoor Soccer League signed Davis away from the Cosmos.

He played one more season with the Steamers before moving to the New York Express, an MISL expansion team heavily staffed by former Cosmos players.

Between September 11 and October 4, 1976, the U.S. U-20 national team played the qualifying games for the 1977 FIFA World U-20 Championship.

When he was 18 years old, he made his senior national team debut in a September 15, 1977 match against El Salvador.

However, President Carter's boycott of those games, held in Moscow, stopped the team from competing.

After his retirement from playing, Davis became the head coach and general manager of the Los Angeles Salsa of the American Professional Soccer League.

In the fall of 2018 Rick joined the coaching staff for the Salina Central Men's Soccer Team.