Lloyd Monsen obit

RIP, LLOYD: Hall of Famer Monsen, two-time Olympian, passes away

Lloyd Monsen, a force in New York soccer and a two-time Olympian, has passed away. 

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Lloyd Monsen, a force in New York soccer and a two-time Olympian and a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame, has passed away.

He was 94.

Monsen played and coached and in the Long Island Soccer Football League.

Kimberly Johnson Monsen, his daughter in law, announced his death on her Facebook page late Wednesday night.

“It’s with a sad heart we announce the passing of my father-in-law Lloyd Monsen,” Monsen wrote. “To say he lived a full life is an understatement — Olympian, Hall of Famer, husband, father, grandfather, and great grandfather. Just shy of 95, he’s seen it all. He passed peacefully. We’ll miss you Pop!”

He was inducted into the NSHOF in 1994 and the Long Island Soccer Player Hall of Fame in 2025.

Monsen was barely out of Fort Hamilton High School in Brooklyn, N.Y., having begun to make a reputation first with S.C. Gjoa and then with the New York Americans of the German-American Soccer League (now Cosmopolitan Soccer League).

He represented the U.S. at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics. In 1992, he told this writer that he was one of 10 players who represented the U.S. in the Olympic soccer tournament.

After returning from the 1956 Melbourne Games, Monsen continued to play for the Americans, who had merged with N.Y. Hakoah. In 1956-57, Monsen led the American Soccer League in scoring and finished second in the goal race the next two seasons before securing the crown again in 1959-60. Hakoah won league titles in 1956-57, 1957-58 and 1958-59.

His contract was sold to the German Hungarians (they eventually became the G.H. Metros), for $1,000.

A year later, an injury put an end to his playing career.

Monsen moved to Florida, where he officiated soccer games from 1965-1980. He returned to Long Island and coached the Sachem youth teams, played with an LISFL Over-30 team (and eventually with an O-40 side) before taking over the coaching reins at Patchogue. He joined Huntington, an LISFL First Division club, in 1992.

Funeral arrangements are pending.