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Brent Goulet is a retired U.S. soccer player and a current coach of the German Third Division club SV Elversberg.

Goulet was born in North Dakota, but grew up in Tacoma, Washington. After graduating from Henry Foss High School in 1983, Goulet attended Warner Pacific College in Portland, Oregon. Warner Pacific, which played in the NAIA, was coached by Bernie Fagan who had extensive professional experience at Sunderland and the Portland Timbers. Under Fagan’s direction, Goulet became the dominant offensive player on the team, scoring 108 goals over four seasons. In 1984, Warner Pacific took third in the NAIA championship tournament.

In the 1986 offseason, Goulet played for F.C. Portland of the Western Soccer Alliance (WSA). Despite playing as an amateur in a professional league, Goulet led the league in scoring with 9 goals and 2 assists. He played one more season with F.C. Portland in 1987, and was honored as the league MVP. The WSA season ran to the end of May. At the end of the season, Goulet joined Portland's rival F.C. Seattle for a five game tour of Britain. That tour, which ran from July 27th to August 6th, included a game with English Second Division club A.F.C. Bournemouth. Goulet's excellent play on the tour, included scoring two goals, led to Bournemouth offering Goulet a contract.

Goulet’s prolific scoring ability also brought him to the attention of the United States men's national soccer team and in 1986, he earned his first cap in a February 5, 1986 0-0 tie with Canada. He played again two days later in a 1-1 tie with Uruguay. These were the only two national team games that year.

In 1987, the U.S. began qualification for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Goulet became a regular with the U.S. Olympic team, scoring 6 goals in 6 games. While the full national team played these matches, since they are part of Olympic soccer, FIFA does not recognize them as full internationals and they do not count as Goulet’s national team statistics. Despite that, Goulet was recoginzed by USSF as its 1987 U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year.

In 1988, he continued his excellent play with the Olympic team, scoring a goal in the U.S. team’s 4-2 loss to the Soviet Union at the Summer Olympics. However, in full internationals he had difficulty both finding a place on the team, as well as scoring. In 1988, despite playing for the national team at the Olympics, he only played one international match, a May 14 loss to Colombia. Goulet began 1989 by playing three consecutive national team games, but then didn’t play again until February 1990, when he played his last two games with the team. Throughout his 8 games with the full team, he never found the net.

However, by then he had begun his struggle to make a living playing professional soccer. He played six games with A.F.C. Bournemouth during the 1987-1988 season, but a scoring drought led to the team loaning him to Crewe Alexandra for which he scored three goals in three games.

From England, he bounced back to the United States, playing with the Seattle Storm of the WSA in 1989 and 1990. In 1989, he began with a bang, scoring two hat tricks before suffering an ankle injury on June 9. He returned at the end of the season and finished that year with six goals in six games. In October 1990, he signed with the Tacoma Stars of the Major Indoor Soccer League. He played a single season with the Stars before moving permanently to Europe.

Rather than trying England again, Goulet elected to move to Germany. He began with Bonner SC, an Oberliga club, playing two season, scoring 31 goals in 1991-1992. HIs prolific scoring led to a move to TeBe Berlin. In his first season with the team, he scored 21 goals, helping the club win promotion; however, in his second season, he failed to find the net and was sent back to Bonner SC with whom he played through the 1994-1995 season.

His itinerant existence continued the next few years as he left Bonner SC to play with Rot-Weiss Oberhausen during the 1995-1996 season, then Wuppertaler for two seasons, 1996-1998.

In 1998, he made his last move as a player when he arrived at SV Elversberg. He would play with the team until 2001 when he broke his leg during a game. At this point, Goulet decided to retire from playing and enter the coaching career. He became an assistant coach at Elversberg and in 2004 was promoted to head coach.

Goulet also earned 12 caps between 1987 and 1989 as part of the U.S. Futsal team. He scored 4 goals.