Soccer

Wallet-snatcher tackled by former soccer pro

Sorry, no goal.

A wallet-snatcher who robbed a breast-feeding mom in Madison Square Park on Saturday had his breakaway stopped cold — by a Douglas Elliman broker who just happens to be a former soccer pro known for his takedown moves.

“I basically just tackled him,” said Todd Crittenden, a Manhattan resident and “rising star’’ broker who once played professional soccer in Arizona.

“The guy was coming at me at an angle, running . . . and I leaned into him with my shoulders and my hip, and we both fell down,” Crittenden told The Post Sunday.

Police said the victim was nursing her baby when Harvey Brown, 47, suddenly grabbed her wallet around 5:20 p.m. inside the park at 23rd Street and Broadway.

Crittenden, who was watching a concert in the park with his wife and two children, didn’t see the theft — but he saw the thief.

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“He was running on the lawn, and [another] guy was chasing him,” Crittenden said.

“I was a [soccer] defender, so I know how how to hit people— and your strength comes from your waist,” said Crittenden, who is doing less tackling nowadays handling the entity Manhattan Fine Properties.

“I’m in my early 40s, but once you know how to do it, you know how to do it. I just knocked him over.

“I played lower-level professional in Arizona. I was back in the middle, the central defender, the last guy in front of the goal. I’m the one who has to stop everyone.”

Crittenden said he wasn’t too much worse for the encounter.

“I have a little bump on my head, that’s all. We must have hit heads,’’ he said.

An Elliman source said it was just like Crittenden to downplay his heroics — and no surprise that he jumped to someone’s aid.

Police arrested the stunned and dazed Brown of Chelsea. He was arraigned Sunday and bail was set at $5,000.