Bob Gansler
Robert "Bob" Gansler (born July 1, 1941 in Mucsi , Hungary ) is a former Hungarian-American football player and current coach .
Career
Bob Gansler was born on July 1, 1941 in Mucsi / Hungary. After his father returned from Soviet captivity in 1946, they moved to Rückingen near Hanau as “ ethnic Germans ” . In 1952 the family emigrated to Milwaukee , Wisconsin . In his youth, Bob Gansler mainly played soccer and baseball. The Milwaukee Brewers baseball club even wanted him to join one of their farm teams, but he finally decided to play football. He graduated from Marquette University in German, which he still speaks fluently today. In 1957, Bob Gansler received US citizenship.
Gansler was from 1963 to 1969 in the squad of the US national soccer team and had 25 missions. In 1964, 1967 and 1968 he was captain of the US Olympic football teams and the Pan-America team. 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 .
He was then a member of the Milwaukee Bavarians for 14 years - first as a player, later as a coach - and from 1984 to 1986 he was the head coach of the football team at 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. Then he took over the professional national team at short notice. From 1987 to 1989 he was the coach of the US U-20s, before he finally became national coach of the US national team as the successor to Lothar Osiander . The United States qualified for a World Cup for the first time in 40 years. In 1996 he became the coach of Milwaukee Rampage, with whom he won the 1997 A-League championship. On April 28, 1999, he moved to the Kansas City Wizards in the top division of the United States ( Major League Soccer ), with which he was 2000 champions and 2004 won the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup . On July 19, 2006, he resigned from his position as a coach with Kansas City. At the end of 2006 he took up the position of assistant coach at the new club Toronto FC and worked there as an assistant coach until 2007.
Stations as a trainer
- 1979–1982 US U-19 national team
- 1982 US national team
- 1984-1988 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- 1987–1989 US U-20 national team
- 1989–1991 US national team
- 1996-1998 Milwaukee Rampage
- 1999-2006 Kansas City Wizards
- 2006–2007 assistant coach at Toronto FC
Record with the national team
| year | Games | S. | U | N |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 12 | 6th | 3 | 3 |
| 1990 | 22nd | 8th | 3 | 11 |
| 1991 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| total | 37 | 15th | 6th | 16 |
Awards
- 1989: NCAA Champion
- 1997: A League champion
- 2000, January: Walt Chyzowych Award
- 2000: MLS champion
- 2000: MLS Coach of the Year Award
- 2000: MLS Supporters' Shield
- 2002, August: Induction into the Milwaukee Rampage Hall of Fame
- 2002, October: Induction into the United Soccer League Hall of Fame
- 2004: US Open Cup winner
Individual evidence
- ↑ Clive Gammon: It's A Real Kick - The US soccer team has its best chance since 1950 of making the World Cup finals. In: Sports Illustrated April 17, 1989.
Thomas Cahill | George Burford | Nat Agar | George Burford | Robert Millar | David Gould | Bill Lloyd | Andrew Brown | Walter Giesler | William Jeffrey | John Wood | Ernő Black | George Meyer | Jim Reed | John Herberger | Phil Woosnam | Gordon Iago | Bob Kehoe | Max Wosniak | Gene Chyzowych | Gordon Bradley | Dettmar Cramer | Al Miller | Manfred Schellscheidt | Walter Chyzowych | Bob Gansler | Alketas Panagoulias | Lothar Osiander | John Kowalski | Bora Milutinović | Steve Sampson | Bruce Arena | Bob Bradley | Jürgen Klinsmann | Bruce Arena | Dave Sarachan | Gregg Berhalter
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gansler, Bob |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gansler, Robert (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian-American soccer player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 1, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mucsi , Hungary |