Louie Smothermon

Louie Smotherman
Personal information
Place of birth Vietnam
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Youth career
1988-1991 Lander University
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
-1996 South Carolina Shamrocks
1997-1999 New Orleans Storm 35 (2)
Teams managed
1998-1999 New Orleans Storm (assistant)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Louie Smotherman is a retired American soccer player who played professionally in the USISL A-League.

Smotherman’s father, an American Army civilian was working in Vietnam when he married a local Vietnamese woman and married her. Smotherman was born in Vietnam, but his family moved to Arizona when he was a baby. He graduated from Greenway High School where he was an All State soccer player. Smotherman attended Lander University, playing on the men’s soccer team from 1988 to 1991. He was a 1991 NAIA All American and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in exercise science.[1] Smotherman began his career with the South Carolina Shamrocks of the . In 1997, he moved to the New Orleans Riverboat Gamblers of the USISL A-League. In 1998, he became a player/assistant coach with the Gamblers who were renamed the New Orleans Storm in 1999 before disbanding in 2000.

In 2005, Smotherman became the head coach of the Brother Martin High School boys’ soccer team. In April 2013, Smotherman became the soccer director at Brother Martin.[2]

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