Bob Gansler
Robert " Bob" Gansler ( born July 1, 1941 in Mucsi, Hungary ) is a former Hungarian- American soccer player and current coach.
Career
Bob Gansler was born on 1 July 1941 in Mucsi / Hungary. After his father returned in 1946 from the Soviet prisoners of war, they took as " German people " after Rückingen at Hanau. 1952 the family emigrated from Milwaukee / Wisconsin. In his youth, Bob Gansler mainly played football and baseball. The Baseball Club Milwaukee Brewers wanted him even record in one of their farm teams, but he decided finally for football. At Marquette University, he completed his degree in German, which he still speaks fluent today. 1957 Bob Gansler received U.S. citizenship.
Gansler was from 1963 to 1969 in the squad of the U.S. soccer team and had 25 missions. 1964, 1967 and 1968 he was captain of the U.S. Olympic soccer teams and the Pan- America teams. In 1967, he played for the Chicago Spurs in the National Professional Soccer League and a year later for the Chicago Mustangs in the North American Soccer League.
Subsequently, he was 14 years to the cadres of the Milwaukee Bavarians - first as a player and later as a coach - and was from 1984 to 1986 head coach of the football team of the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee.
From 1979 to 1982 he coached the U-19 national team and led them to the World Cup in Australia. After he had taken over the short term professional team. From 1987 to 1989 he was the coach of the U.S. U- 20 before he was eventually to succeed Lothar Osiander coach of the U.S. national team. USA qualified for the first time in 40 years for a World Cup. He became coach of Milwaukee Rampage, with whom he won the 1997 A-League championship in 1996. On 28 April 1999 he moved to the Kansas City Wizards in the top flight of the USA ( Major League Soccer), with whom he was champion in 2000 and 2004, the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup won. On 19 July 2006 he resigned from his position as coach at Kansas City back. The end of 2006 he took up the position of assistant coach at the new club Toronto FC, where he worked as an assistant coach until 2007.