Facts:   - clubs: brooklyn giants brooklyn wanderers newark americans wanderers → boston -lrb- loan -rrb- new york    - caps: 110 1 24 42 0    - position: inside forward    - years: 1925 -- 1929 1927 1929 1930 -- 1931 1931      - name: leslie lyell    - birth place: southall , england    - goals: 37 0 7 12 0   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of leslie lyell .
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leslie lyell was an english association football player who spent his entire professional career in the american soccer league .born in england , lyell began his career in canada where he played for brantford cockshutts , a team sponsored by the cockshutt plow company .in 1925 , lyell signed with the brooklyn wanderers of the american soccer league .in may 1926 , lyell broke his shin bone in an exhibition match with hakoah vienna .he lost the rest of the season and the did not regain a spot in the starting eleven until well into the 1926 -- 27 season .he played one game on loan to the boston soccer club .his best season , statistically came in 1928 -- 1929 when he scored seventeen goals , putting him eleventh on the scoring list .in september 1929 , lyell moved to the new york giants .when the giants left the asl and entered the eastern professional soccer league as part of the soccer war , lyell went with the giants , but returned to the wanderers later in the season .in the fall of 1931 , lyell signed with the newark americans , but played only three league cup games , scoring two goals .he never entered a first-team league game with newark .