Buzz Parsons

Buzz Parsons
Personal information
Full name Leslie Parsons[1]
Date of birth (1950-12-16) 16 December 1950 (age 73)
Place of birth Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[2]
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
Huddersfield Town
Ipswich Town
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1975 Simon Fraser 20 (21)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1969–1970 Vancouver Spartans
1971 Vancouver Eintracht
1976–1982 Vancouver Whitecaps 106 (17)
1979–1980L.A. Aztecs (indoor) 6 (0)
1980–1981Vancouver Whitecaps (indoor) 8 (2)
1985 Victoria Riptides
Total 120 (19)
International career
1972–1980 Canada 22 (6)
Managerial career
Vancouver 86ers
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Les "Buzz" Parsons (born 16 December 1950) is a Canadian former soccer player who played at both professional and international levels as a midfielder. During his career in North America with the Vancouver Whitecaps, Parsons was affectionately known as "White Shoes", owing to the white boots he wore. After retiring as a player, Parsons later became a professional soccer coach.

  1. ^ "NASL Playoffs: The Second Season". The Los Angeles Times. August 26, 1980. p. 149. Retrieved 22 February 2017. Vancouver's Leslie Parsons attempts to take ball from Joey Clarke
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference CSA was invoked but never defined (see the help page).