Jim Tietjens, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetJim Tietjens
American soccer player
Date of Birth: 25-Feb-1960
Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Profession: association football player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Jim Tietjens
- Jim Tietjens is a retired American soccer goalkeeper who played professionally in the North American Soccer League, Major Indoor Soccer League and United Soccer League. Tietjens graduated from Oakville High School.
- He then attended St.
- Louis University where he played on the men's soccer team from 1978 and 1979.
- He was inducted into the Billikens Hall of Fame in 1995.
- In 1980, he turned professional with the Fort Lauderdale Strikers of the North American Soccer League.
- He spent three season with the Strikers as a backup to Jan van Beveren except for two games during his rookie season when injuries put him in the nets.
- He suffered a knee injury requiring surgery during a February 1983 indoor tournament and remained a backup for the 1983 season.
- In November 1983, he signed with the Kansas City Comets of the Major Indoor Soccer League.
- However, he lost much of the early season with a dislocated shoulder then served as a backup for the rest of the season.
- In May 1984, he signed with the Fort Lauderdale Sun of the United Soccer League.
- He led the league with the lowest goals against average.
- He continued to play for the Sun, now known as the South Florida Sun in 1985.
- He had the second lowest goals against average.
- When the team and the league collapsed after six games, Tietjens moved back to St.
- Louis where he worked for Rawling Sports.
- In October 1991, Tietjens was diagnosed with a heart problem.
- In July 1992, Tietjens was given a life saving heart transplant.Jim is currently the Director of Trade Marketing Planning at Anheuser Busch in St.
- Louis, MO.
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