Ray Hudson Retires

     Former Ft. Lauderdale Strikers midfielder Ray Hudson announced his retirement from broadcasting on Tuesday. He made his retirement announcement on his morning program The Football Show at SiriusXM FC on SiriusXM Radio. Hudson began on that show in 2012. 

     Hudson will also stop his work at CBS Sports as a game analyst and studio analyst. His last broadcast as a game analyst was the UEFA Champions League during the spring. 

     He played for the Fort Lauderdale Strikers in the North American Soccer League from 1977 to 1983. Hudson rejoined the Strikers in 1988 when they were in the American Soccer League and captured the ASL Championship. He was with them in the American Professional Soccer League in 1989 and 1991. 

     He left the television broadcast booth in May 2000 to become the head coach of the Miami Fusion in Major League Soccer. The franchise folded in January 2002 after winning the MLS Supporters' Shield for the best regular season in 2001.

     Hudson would immediate join D.C. United as their head coach one day after the Miami Fusion dissolved. He was at that post until 2004. 

     He became a full-time television soccer game analyst. Hudson worked over the next 20 years with GOLtv, beIN Sport, CBS Sports and Inter Miami CF.