Helmut Bicek


Helmut Bicek is a retired U.S. soccer player who spent most of his career with the Los Angeles Soccer Club. He earned five caps, scoring two goals, with the United States men's national [soccer team|U.S. national team] between 1960 and 1965. Bicek earned his first caps and scored his first national team goal in a 3–3 tie with Mexico national [football team|Mexico] on November 6, 1960. He played again seven days later, a loss to Mexico. That loss kept the U.S. out of the 1962 [FIFA World Cup]. Bicek did not play for the national team again until a March 7, 1965 tie with Mexico in which Bicek again scored. His last cap came ten days later in a 1–0 victory over Honduras. Both games in 1965 were qualification games for the 1966 FIFA World Cup.