Paul Caligiuri

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Paul Caligiuri
Personnel
Surname Paul David Caligiuri
birthday March 9, 1964
place of birth Westminster ,  USA
size 181 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
1990-1994 UCLA
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1986 San Diego Nomads 10 (2)
1987 Hamburger SV 0 (0)
1987-1990 SV Meppen 45 (1)
1990-1991 Hansa Rostock 22 (0)
1991-1992 Sc freiburg 18 (0)
1995 Hansa Rostock
1995-1996 →  FC St. Pauli  (loan) 15 (0)
1996 Columbus crew 25 (3)
1997-2001 Los Angeles Galaxy 136 (8)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1984-1997 United States 110 (5)
1987 USA futsal 4 (1)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2002-2008 Cal Poly Pomona
2017– Orange County FC
1 Only league games are given.

Paul Caligiuri (born March 9, 1964 in Westminster , California ) is a former American soccer player and current coach. He played in defense and defensive midfield and completed 110 senior internationals in his career and wore the number 20 shirt in most games of the US national team . In 1986, he was named Footballer of the Year in the United States .

Since the 2017 season he has coached Orange County FC, which plays in the National Premier Soccer League .

Career

society

At club level, Caligiuri played for Hamburger SV (1986/87), SV Meppen (1987–1989), Hansa Rostock (1990/91), SC Freiburg (1991/92), FC St. Pauli (1995 / 96), Columbus Crew (1996) and Los Angeles Galaxy (1997-2001).

For the 1990/91 season Caligiuri moved to Hansa Rostock. He was the first foreign professional in the club. In this last season in East German football, he won the NOFV championship with Rostock . As a result, the club had achieved a starting place for the 1st Bundesliga . This season he was also the last FDGB Cup winner. Caligiuri completed 22 games for FC Hansa; he did not succeed in a goal. After the season he was unable to agree on a Bundesliga contract with the club. He then left Rostock and went to SC Freiburg .

Caligiuri completed 15 appearances in the 1st Bundesliga for FC St. Pauli . In the 2nd Bundesliga he played 45 times (1 goal) for SV Meppen and 18 times for SC Freiburg. Originally, in 1986, the then manager of Hamburger SV, Felix Magath , after Caligiuri had become “Footballer of the Year” in the USA, directed him from the USA to Hamburg. But Caligiuri had no real chance at Hamburger SV under coach Ernst Happel and did not make a single game for him in the 1st Bundesliga.

National team

Caligiuri took part in two world championships. At the 1990 World Cup in Italy , he made all three games for the USA. However, the USA were eliminated in Italy after three defeats in the preliminary round. In the 1: 5 defeat against Czechoslovakia , Caligiuri marked one of the two goals scored by the USA at this tournament with the consolation goal .

At the 1994 World Cup in his own country, he was called back to the US squad by the Serbian coach of the USA, Bora Milutinović . After surviving the preliminary round, the USA were unlucky enough to be eliminated in the round of 16 against eventual world champions Brazil after a goal by Bebeto . Caligiuri was used in all four games of this World Cup.

Coaching career

Before the start of the fall 2001 season, Caligiuri took over the coaching of the men's and women's soccer team at California State Polytechnic University . He stayed there until the end of the 2008 season. In 2017 he took over Orange County FC, which plays in the fourth-rate National Premier Soccer League .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ fc-hansa.de: 40 years of FC Hansa: The cog as a trademark. December 28, 2005, accessed November 17, 2018 .
  2. ^ Markus Hesselmann, Michael Rosentritt: Hansa Rostock. The east is alive. Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 1999, p. 276
  3. ^ Paul Kennedy: Caligiuri quits as Cal Poly Pomona coach . In: Sports Illustrated , Soccer America, November 5, 2008. Retrieved April 10, 2017. 
predecessor Office successor
Perry van der Beck United States Footballer of the Year
1986 		Brent Goulet
personal data
SURNAME Caligiuri, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Westminster , California