Roy Wegerle

Roy Wegerle ( born March 19, 1964 in Pretoria, South Africa) is a former football player, who participated for the U.S. national team at the World Championships in 1994 and 1998.

Under the former national coach of the U.S. team Bora Milutinovic (1994) and Steve Sampson (1998 ), he was only in the fifth world ( after 1930, 1934, 1950 and 1990) several times erected participation of the country as a striker. As the host country, he took part in the surprising success story of the team that in 1994 was only completed in the second round with a 0-1 against Brazil. Next to him at that time were later football icons such as Eric Wynalda, who came to prominence among other things by his Bundesliga commitment to 1.FC Saarbrücken, and Tony Meola, who is revered as the best North American goalkeeper ever since then, or Alexi Lalas, Thomas Dooley and John Harkes in the team. He had the time of his greatest success a contract with the English club Coventry City (1994 /95). Overall Wegerle played 41 matches, scoring seven goals.

As a South African immigrant with Swabian- Dutch origin Wegerle would also have had the privilege to play for other national teams (England, South Africa, Germany, the Netherlands), but he opted for his new home (since 1991 a U.S. citizen ) to play, as the European coach is not asking if he wanted to play for them and since his birth country, South Africa, in contrast to the United States had no fixed eligibility and finally could not qualify.

At the time of World Cup 1994, he was 1.81 meters tall and weighed 77 kilograms. Prior to his career in late 1998, he was interim interim coach and player with the Colorado Rapids in Major League Soccer ( MLS) in his American adoptive country. His active career he finished with the Tampa Bay Mutiny. Since then, change his address to reach by way of internships in American and European football professional clubs even the targeted items of a professional or national team coach.

In addition, he has become a professional golfer and co-host for a football sports program in American television.

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