Gary Allison is a retired German-born American soccer player. This outstanding goalkeeper played professionally, for 12 years, from 1973-1984, in the NASL (North American Soccer League), ASL(American Soccer League) and MISL( Major Indoor Soccer League) after attending Westmont College (1969-1972) in Santa Barbara, Ca.Allison was born in 1951 in Munich, Germany but raised in Fuerstenfeldbruck. In 1960 he was adopted by an Americanmilitary family and became a US citizen.