Cobi Jones

Jones (left) with Ruud Gullit, 2007

Cobi N'Gai Jones ( born June 16, 1970 in Detroit ) is a former American football player.

Career

Player

Jones began his career in the team from the University of California, Los Angeles. In October and November 1992, he coached a trial basis at the 1 FC Cologne, where he received but no contract. In 1994, he signed a one year contract at Coventry City in the English Premier League, and made his debut there on 16 September in the match against Leeds United. In this game, he prepared a goal and was awarded a penalty kick, which Coventry won the game 2-1. His first goal as a professional shot Cobi Jones in November 1994 against Norwich. In one year he made ​​it after all in 28 games 9 goals in England to shoot.

In 1995, Jones to Vasco da Gama in the first Brazilian league, but returned after half a year back to the U.S., where just the Major League Soccer was founded. He signed a contract with Los Angeles Galaxy, where he played until his retirement in late 2007.

Coach

On November 9, 2007, he was assistant coach at Los Angeles Galaxy under Ruud Gullit. When he had to go on 11 August 2008, Jones took over the management of the team as interim coach. On August 18, he took his place as assistant coach, next to the new head coach Bruce Arena, again.

In January 2011, he left Galaxy and has been associate director of soccer at New York Cosmos.

Achievements

The midfielder is with 164 inserts capped player in the USA. With the United States, he participated in three World Cups: 1994 in the United States, in France in 1998 and 2002 in Japan and South Korea, as well as in the Olympic Games in 1992.

He also has recorded the majority of assignments for Los Angeles Galaxy: He played from 1996 to 2007 305 games for the club. Cobi Jones was the last player in Major League Soccer, which was continuously active at the same club since the founding of the League in 1996.

1996 and 2002, he was champion Galaxy of Major League Soccer with Los Angeles.

Private

• On September 12, 2009, he married his longtime girlfriend Kim Reese. The couple married at the Park Hyatt Aviara Resort in Carlsbad, California.