Tom O'Dea (footballer)

Tom O'Dea
Personal information
Date of birth 20 November 1948 (1948-11-20)
Place of birth Dublin, Ireland
Date of death October 2025 (aged 76)
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Position Centre-back
Youth career
Home Farm
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1970–1974 Shamrock Rovers
1973 New Jersey Schaefer Brewers
1975 Hartford Bicentennials 12 (0)
1975 Home Farm 2+
1976 Utah Golden Spikers 11 (0)
1977–1979 New Jersey Americans 40+ (0)
Total 65+ (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Tom O'Dea (20 November 1948 – October 2025) was an Irish professional footballer who played as a centre-back for Shamrock Rovers, Home Farm, New Jersey Schaefer Brewers (and for the later named New Jersey Americans), Hartford Bicentennials (later Connecticut Bicentennials) and Utah Golden Spikers (later Utah Pioneers) in the League of Ireland, North American Soccer League (NASL) and American Soccer League (ASL) respectively. He also coached after retiring from playing in 1979 for New Jersey Americans for the remainder of the year before the club relocated.

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