Roy Desmond "Buster" Cairns (born February 15, 1925) was a member of the Canadian national soccer team

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 in the 1950s. He was born in Clayburn

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, British Columbia

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.

Cairns played left back

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 alongside Westminster Royals teammate Dave Stothard

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 in 3 of 4 qualifying matches Canada played for the 1958 FIFA World Cup

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. Mexico

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 qualified from the region, having defeated the Canadians twice soundly, 3-0 and 2-0.

Cairns played 9 seasons with the Royals in the Pacific Coast Soccer League

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 - 1951 through 1960. He was their captain in '53 when they won the North American Club Championship, defeating the Chicago Falcons

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. He was discovered by Vancouver St. Andrews playing in the Central Fraser Valley

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 near Abbotsford

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 and played with them for the 1947 season when they won the Dominion Championship. Cairns played '48 with Westminster, '49 with Vancouver City, and '50 with St. Andrews.

Cairns was a perennial member of the British Columbia All-Stars and was their captain when they defeated the touring Irish Football Association

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 3-2 in 1953.

In later years Cairns worked as a volunteer in the Crime Prevention Office of the New Westminster Police Office. He was inducted into the Ontario Soccer Association

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's Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame

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as a Player in 2001.

Source

• Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame