Bob Kehoe

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Robert "Bob" Kehoe (born June 7, 1928 in St. Louis , Missouri , † September 4, 2017 ) was an American baseball and soccer player and later soccer coach . Kahoe was the captain of the United States 'national soccer team in 1965 and coach of the United States' national soccer team during qualifying for the 1974 World Cup .

Bob Kehoe played soccer in high school but turned pro baseball after graduation. He played for various farm team of the Philadelphia Phillies , managed in the minor leagues but only up to the B-Class. From 1949 he played for St. Louis Kutis SC , with whom he reached the final of the US Soccer Cup in 1954 , but also lost. At the end of his playing days, he played in the newly formed NASL for the St. Louis Stars in 1968 , before becoming the team's coach in 1969.

In 1965, Kehoe took part in qualifying for the 1966 World Cup as captain of the US team; the four games remained his only A-internationals.

In 1972, the US association appointed Kehoe to succeed Gordon Jago as national coach for qualifying for the 1974 World Cup in Germany . The United States finished last in the group , behind Mexico and Canada . In the final game, a home game against Mexico in California , the association's incompetence and some injuries meant that Kehoe only had ten outfield players left. A player from New York who happened to be in the stadium two hours before kick-off and was waiting for the game as a spectator was signed for Team USA at short notice; Barney Djordjevic got his only international match. Two other players - Dieter Ficken and Fred Kovacs - could be flown in shortly before kick-off and also made their national team debut.

Later, Kehoe was a high school trainer in Granite City from 1973 to 1983 , then head coach of the football teams at the Anheuser-Busch Brewery, and football television and radio commentator in St. Louis until the late 1980s.

Bob Kehoe was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in 2002 and the US Soccer Hall of Fame in 1989 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bob Kehoe at familysearch.org (English), accessed December 29, 2018
  2. ^ A b David Blevins: "The Sports Hall of Fame Encyclopedia: Baseball, Basketball, Football, Hockey, Soccer, Volume 1", p. 523.
  3. ^ David Wangerin: Soccer in a Football World: The Story of America's Forgotten Game . WSC Books Limited, London 2006, ISBN 0-9540134-7-6 , pp. 161 .
  4. ↑ Donn Risolo: "Soccer Stories: Anecdotes, Oddities, Lore, and Amazing Feats", ISBN 9780803233959 , 2010, p. 221.
  5. ↑ Entry on Kehoe on the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame website (accessed July 10, 2014).
  6. ^ Entry on Kehoe ( memento of July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the US Soccer website (accessed July 10, 2014).
personal data
SURNAME Kehoe, Bob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kehoe, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American football player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Louis , Missouri
DATE OF DEATH 4th September 2017