Steve Trittschuh
Stephen "Steve" If Shoe ( born April 24, 1965 in Granite City, Illinois ) is a retired American defenders. Trittschuh played 38 times for the national football team of the United States.
Career
Association
Stephen kick shoe was born in Granite City, Illinois and attended between 1983 and 1986, the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. From the St. Louis Steamers, he was selected in the second round of the Major Soccer League draft. After a season where the club was disbanded in April 1988 and kick shoe became the free-agent. During this time he just graduated its first international match and was part of the squad for the Olympic Summer Games in Seoul in 1988. In October 1988, the USSF signed with American player contracts, running shoe was the 14th player, who signed with the United States Soccer Federation. Between early 1988 and 1989 in the amateurs Busch Seniors in St. Louis, while it was not for the national team in action. On 4 May 1989, he moved to the Tampa Bay Rowdies in the American Soccer League. In the next season, he stayed with the Rowdies and played with it in the American Professional Soccer League then newly founded. In 1990, his career takes an unexpected turn. In the Football World Cup 1990, the U.S. team lost to Czechoslovakia clearly with 1:5. But the assistant coach of the Czechoslovakia was also head coach at Sparta Prague to recognize untapped talent of tread shoe and offered him a contract there to which he accepted. Since the Soviet bloc was dissolved and the states wanted all to take a step towards democracy, worked this transfer. From this point on the Eastern European states began with the talent scouting in the United States. Although he only played one season in Prague, he helped them to win the Czechoslovak championship in 1991 and was the first U.S. player who was allowed to play in the European Cup Winners' Cup at the time. But after a year he returned to the Rowdies and even played two seasons for this. In the fall of 1992 he moved to the Netherlands for FC Dordrecht are. He had, according to his own statements, against two Finns to assert his place. If shoe was a regular player of the team, but when the club at the end of the season ran out of money and could not pay the salary of the players, running shoe returned to Tampa Bay. On April 6, 1994, he moved to the Fort Lauderdale Strikers, which was then played in the American Professional Soccer League. Yet on 30 November of the same year he went to St. Louis Ambush to play there in the National Professional Soccer League. In the final, the NPSL is defeated in the year Harrisburg beat 4-0 in the series best- of-seven. In 1995 he moved to Montreal Impact in the APSL. After 1994, the Major League Soccer was founded, was kick shoe just before the change in the MLS. That's why he bought out for $ 10,000 from his contract. But the MLS, he moved in December 1995 to Tampa Bay Terror, one last time to play indoor. In 1996 he moved then to the MLS club Colorado Rapids. In 1997, he reached with his team the final of the MLS Cup, but lost 1-2 against the then defending champion DC United. After three solid seasons as a " six ", coach Glenn Myernick in the 1999 season to Marcelo Balboa as six. After the bank, he was not allowed to leave the first eight games, he moved on June 14, 1999 Tampa Bay Mutiny and the " Rapids " got as an exchange player striker Guillermo Jara. After 62 league games and seven goals he ended his football career in 2001.
National
If shoe had a long and successful national career. In 1987 he played his first international match in the jersey of the U.S. team against Egypt. He also participated in the Pan American Games in 1987. In addition, he was part of the squad at the Summer Olympics in 1988, but played a single game. In the Futsal World Cup in 1989, he finished with the U.S. in third place. At the opening match of the Football World Cup 1990 in their own country completed against Czechoslovakia, the full ninety minutes. In 1995, he completed his last international match against Saudi Arabia. He played 38 matches and scored two goals.
Coach
After end of his career as a player kick shoe worked at his old university as an assistant coach in 1989. In 2001, he hired at his former MLS club Colorado Rapids.
Achievements
- Czechoslovakian champion: 1991
- National Professional Soccer League: 1994/95