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Startzell attended Wilson Senior High School, graduating in 1968. He then attended the University of Pennsylvania where he played on the men’s soccer team from 1969 to 1971.
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Joe Startzell
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He currently works in the financial services sector and is the president of the Duxbury Soccer Association. He was a 1969 and 1971 second team All American and a 1970 first team All American. In 1971, he was second team All Ivy League as a placekicker on the Penn football team
In 2005, the University of Pennsylvania selected Startzell to its All Century Team.
In 1972, the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League drafted Startzell. He was the only native United States. player on the roster that season.
He played three games for the Cosmos before moving to the expansion Philadelphia Atoms in 1973. He played no games for the Minutemen and left the NASL after the 1975 season.
Startzell has worked with the Special Olympics and in the financial services sector.
In the mid-1980s, he worked for Selective Security Trust of America. He currently works for Lincoln Investment Planning in Duxbury, Massachusetts where he also serves as the head of the Duxbury Soccer Association. Foreign many years, he was also the coach of a competitive girls soccer club team called the South Coast Scorpions.
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