Career
He also earned eleven caps, scoring two goals, with the United States. national team between 1968 and 1973. He now holds the name of an award given to exceptional high-school and college students. The award is called the Sigi Stritzl award.
Many people commonly mis-spell his name as "Siggy" or "Siggi".
His name is and always will be Siegfried Stritzl or Sigi Stritzl. In 1969, the Baltimore Bays of the North American Soccer League (NASL) signed Stritzl.
With the collapse of the Bays, Stritzl returned the Blau Weiss-Gottschee for the 1970 GASL season. However, in 1971, the New York Cosmos of NASL signed Stritzl.
He was named as a First Team NASL All Star that season as the Cosmos lost to the Atlanta Chiefs in the playoff semifinals.
In 1973, Stritzl played his last season in the NASL. Stritzl played forty-seven NASL regular-season and four post-season games. In 1971, he scored three goals in twenty-one games. Stritzl earned eleven caps with the United States. national team
His first game with the national team came in a 4-0 loss to Israel on September 25, 1968.
A month later, his second cap came in a world cup qualifying loss to Canada. Stritzl scored his first of two goals with the national team in the 4-2 loss.
Stritzl continued to play for each United States. national team games in 1968 and 1969. His second goal came in a 5-2 loss to Haiti on October 21, 1968.
After the United States. failed to qualify for the 1970 Fédération internationale de football association World Cup, Stritzl was not called into the national team again until a March 20, 1973 loss to Poland when he came on for Manfred Seissler.
That was his last game with the national team
