Louie Smotherman is a retired American soccer player who played professionally in the USISL A-League. Smotherman’s father, an American Army civilian was working in Vietnam when he married a local Vietnamese woman. Smotherman was born in Vietnam, but his family moved to Arizona when he was a baby. He graduated from Greenway High School where he was an All State soccer player. Smotherman attended Lander University, playing on the men’s soccer team from 1988 to 1991. He was a 1991 NAIA All American and graduated with a bachelor's degree in exercise science. Smotherman began his career with the South Carolina Shamrocks of the . In 1997, he moved to the New Orleans Riverboat Gamblers of the USISL A-League. In 1998, he became a player/assistant coach with the Gamblers who were renamed the New Or