Eric Wynalda
| Eric Wynalda | ||
 Wynalda as coach of the Atlanta Silverbacks (2012)
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Eric Boswell Wynalda | |
| birthday | June 9, 1969 | |
| place of birth | Fullerton , USA | |
| size | 185 cm | |
| position | striker | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1987-1989 | San Diego State | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1988-1989 | San Diego Nomads | 6 (0) |
| 1990-1992 | → San Francisco Bay Blackhawks (loan) | 17 (5) |
| 1992-1994 | 1. FC Saarbrücken | 61 (21) |
| 1994-1996 | VfL Bochum | 29 (2) |
| 1996-1999 | San Jose Clash | 57 (21) |
| 1999 | → Club León (loan) | 5 (3) |
| 1999-2000 | Miami Fusion | 12 (3) |
| 1999 | → 1. FC Saarbrücken (loan) | 4 (2) |
| 2000-2001 | New England Revolution | 8 (0) |
| 2001 | Chicago Fire | 21 (10) |
| 2007-2008 | Bakersfield Brigade | 4 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1990-2000 | United States | 106 (34) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 2012 | Cal FC | |
| 2012 | Atlanta Silverbacks (interim) | |
| 2014– | Atlanta Silverbacks | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Eric Wynalda (born June 9, 1969 in Fullerton , California ) is a retired American football player . He is a studio analyst for the US sports broadcaster Fox Soccer Channel and technical director and coach of the NASL team Atlanta Silverbacks .
Athletic career
Youth and college
Eric Wynalda, who is of Dutch descent, grew up in Westlake Village , California. In his childhood he played for the Westlake Wolves . His father coached the team with which he won the AYSO State Championship. He scored 56 goals in 16 games. He later attended Westlake High School and was nominated three times for the All State selection. In the high school team he played with the future national player Cobi Jones .
From 1987 to 1989 he attended San Diego State University , where he played for the San Diego State Aztecs soccer team . In the three seasons he scored a total of 34 goals and prepared 25 more. In its freshman year, the team reached the NCAA Men's Soccer Championship Finals. There the Aztecs lost to the Clemson Tigers . While at SDSU, he also played for the San Diego Nomads in the Western Soccer Alliance for two seasons.
Professional football
In the same year he signed a contract with the United States Soccer Federation to take part in the 1990 World Cup . After the tournament he was awarded by the USSF to the San Francisco Bay Blackhawks. In three seasons, the striker scored five goals in the American Professional Soccer League. He only played in seventeen games as he was with the national team most of the time.
In August 1992 he was loaned to 1. FC Saarbrücken for 45,000 US dollars . He was the first football player born in the USA to switch to a German professional club. With the then Bundesliga club he played in all 17 games of the first half of the 1992/93 season and scored eight goals. Whereupon it was bought by Saarbrücken for 405,000 US dollars. In the second half of the season there were two more goals in 15 games and 1. FC Saarbrücken was the last to be relegated. In the following season of the 2nd Bundesliga 1993/1994 he scored 14 goals and prepared 25 more. Saarbrücken was 14th among the 20 second division clubs.
At the end of the season, Wynalda moved to VfL Bochum, who had just been promoted to the Bundesliga 2 for $ 850,000 . In his 22 Bundesliga games he remained without a goal, Bochum was relegated in 16th. Due to an inguinal hernia that he contracted on August 30th, he did not make seven appearances in the 2nd Bundesliga until the middle of the season - none of them over a full game - in which he scored two goals. Bochum came first and rose again.
In 1996 he went back to the USA and signed a contract with the then newly formed Major League Soccer . In the course of the creation of the new professional league in the USA, all known football players were divided between the various teams. The MLS transferred Wynalda to the San Jose Clash . On April 6, 1996, he scored the first goal in Major League Soccer history. Clash beat DC United 1-0 . At the end of the season he was named Footballer of the Year in the USA by the USSF . He also received the Honda Player of the Year award in the same year. For San José Clash, Wynalda played 57 times between 1996 and 1998, scoring 21 goals.
In 1999 he was loaned to the Mexican football club Club León. After five games for Mexicans, Wynalda seriously injured his knee. He fell through the remaining loan time and also missed the start of the season of the MLS season 1999. Clash transferred him to Miami Fusion , with whom he completed two games in the playoff round after six appearances in the regular league games. For November and December 1999, the US-American put on the jersey of 1. FC Saarbrücken again - for four games (two goals) in the then third-rate Regionalliga West / Südwest of the 1999/2000 season . Back at Miami Fusion, he was used six times (one goal) in the MLS season before he was handed over to New England Revolution on July 8, 2000 in exchange for Ivan McKinley. On May 3, 2001, he changed the team again within the MLS. The Revs sent him to Chicago Fire in exchange for John Wolyniec.
In 2002 Wynalda announced that he would like to end his career at Los Angeles Galaxy . This change did not take place. He then moved to Charleston Battery in the USL First Division . In a preparation game for the coming season, Wynalda injured his knee again, announced the end of his career and became a television commentator.
Selection bets
Wynalda completed his first international match for the USA on February 2, 1990 against Costa Rica . On March 14, 1990, he signed a contract with the United States Soccer Federation, making him a full-time national player. In the same year Wynalda was part of the squad for the World Cup in Italy .
At the 1994 World Cup in his own country, he scored the equalizer in the game against Switzerland with a free kick from 26 meters. At the Copa America 1995 he was appointed to the top team of the Copa at the end of the tournament. He scored 3 goals in the tournament, two against Chile and one against Argentina.
In 1998 he took part in his third World Cup finals in France . Only Tab Ramos and Marcelo Balboa were also in the US squad at three World Cups in the 1990s.
In 2000 he said goodbye to the national team. He was able to score 34 goals in 106 games. Until January 19, 2008 he was the most successful goalscorer in the USA. Landon Donovan scored one goal in a game against Sweden that day, overtaking him.
Wynalda was voted one of the best players of the 1990s by CONCACAF. In 2004 he was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame. He has also been in the Ventura County Sports Hall of Fame since 2006.
Further professional career
Official and final games
In 2005 Wynalda was hired by the Bakersfield Brigade football club as technical director. At the end of the 2007 season he was again on a soccer field for the last games. He played a total of four games in the USL Premier Development League .
He also played for Hollywood United FC, a senior amateur club from Los Angeles. There he stood with the former US internationals Alexi Lalas and John Harkes , Frank Leboeuf , Vinnie Jones and the actor Anthony LaPaglia on the pitch. United plays in the Los Angeles Olympic Soccer League.
Television career
After the end of his career as a football player, he first worked as a commentator at ESPN . Together with Alexi Lalas, he commented on the games at the 2006 World Cup . During the 2007 MLS season, he became a major commentator on ESPN and ABC .
In 2008 he worked as a columnist for Major League Soccer Magazine in Los Angeles. In August 2009, Fox Soccer Channel announced that Wynalda would take over Fox Football Fone-in. He also worked as a TV commentator for Major League Soccer and for the UEFA Champions League games . During the Soccer World Cup 2010 he worked for the online portal Yahoo! Sports hired as a video blog analyst.
Private
He has been married to Amanda Fletcher since 2014. Wynalda has three children. In November 2018 his mansion burned in Malibu by wildfires in California from.
Web links
- Eric Wynalda in the database of weltfussball.de
- Eric Wynalda in the database of fussballdaten.de
- Eric Wynalda in the database of transfermarkt.de
- Eric Wynalda in the database of the German Football Association
- Eric Wynalda in the database of kicker.de
- Eric Wynalda in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ The A-League Archives . A-leaguearchive.tripod.com. January 20, 2009. Retrieved June 18, 2010.
- ^ Matthias Arnhold: Eric Boswell Wynalda - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . RSSSF.com . February 19, 2020. Accessed February 21, 2020.
- ↑ SPORTS PEOPLE - SOCCER - SPORTS PEOPLE - SOCCER - US Federation Signs 2 - NYTimes.com , New York Times. March 15, 1990. Retrieved June 18, 2010.
- ^ Roberto Mamrud: Eric Wynalda - Century of International Appearances . RSSSF.com . February 19, 2020. Accessed February 21, 2020.
- ↑ Archive link ( January 6, 2011 memento in the Internet Archive ) Ventura County Sports Hall of Fame
- ↑ Demosphere International, Inc .: United Soccer Leagues (USL) . Uslsoccer.com. December 18, 2005. Archived from the original on August 26, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 18, 2010.
- ↑ Demosphere International, Inc .: United Soccer Leagues (USL) . Uslsoccer.com. July 3, 2007. Archived from the original on August 26, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 18, 2010.
- ↑ Desert Sun: Ex-soccer star Eric Wynalda loses home to massive California fire; other athletes affected , November 12, 2018
See also
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Alexi Lalas |
US Footballer of the Year 1996 |
Kasey Keller |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wynalda, Eric |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fullerton , California |