Steve Sampson
Steve Sampson ( born January 19, 1957 in Salt Lake City ) is an American football coach.
Playing career
As a 18 -year-old he began in 1975 with the college soccer at Foothill Community College in Los Altos Hills. Due to his strong performances he was appointed to the All-America team of the State of California in 1976, in that only the best amateur players come. The following two years he played more for the soccer team from San Jose State University where he acquired also his academic degree. He then went on to Stanford University and received his master's degree in education.
Coaching career
College Football
During his master studies he already took over 21 years as coach at the college team of Awalt High School in Mountain View. After graduating, he went back to Foothill Community College and served as an assistant coach of the team, in that he had five years earlier still played itself. In 1982 he was hired by the University of California, Los Angeles, remained there for three years as an assistant coach and was able to celebrate with the rest of the coaching team in 1985 winning the National Collegiate Athletic Association championship. After this success made him the Santa Clara University as a coach. There Sampson reached in 1989 by then his greatest success as a coach of a high school team and won with his team four years ago as an assistant coach of the UCLA National Collegiate Athletic Association championship. In the finals they defeated the University of Virginia, whose former coach Bruce Arena was. In the same season, Steve Sampson was elected to the NCAA Coach of the Year. Until 1993 he remained coach at Santa Clara, but without further success countable.
National of the United States
With 36 years he was then as assistant coach of the national football team of the United States the chance to make national and international attention, because the former head coach was none other than Bora Milutinovic. Along with it, he oversaw the national team at the FIFA World Cup 1994 in their own country. In addition to his duties as assistant coach Sampson was also happen to be Vice President of the then organizing committee of the World Cup. After the departure of Milutinovic he was first appointed in April 1995 as interim coach of the national team. But he loosened his duties well and managed in the same year a surprisingly good fourth place at the Copa America, so he was promoted to head coach in August 1995. Shortly before the 1998 World Cup the team won in February during the CONCACAF Gold Cup against Brazil and lit so high expectations for the World Cup 1998. Yet against all odds, the team lost all three group games and thus different from. On 29 June 1998 Sampson joined the consequence from his office.
Costa Rican national football team
After four years of absence, he returned in 2002 back to the trainer chair and took over the Costa Rican national soccer team. He was trained for the first U.S. football coach of a foreign national. Under his reign, the team climbed in the FIFA world rankings to number 17, which to this day is the record. Despite his successes, he was dismissed in 2004 and returned to his homeland.
Returning to the United States
As the new coach of Los Angeles Galaxy him promptly the Double succeeded in 2005 by winning the league and cup. The following season, however, the success could not be continued and Sampson was released on 6 June 2006. Since then he has trained again the Unimannschaft the University of California, Los Angeles.
Title
- Coach of the year the National Collegiate Athletic Association: 1989
- National Collegiate Athletic Association Championship: 1989
- American Masters: 2005
- American Cup Winners: 2005