Peter Vermes

Peter Vermes
Peter Vermes (2011)
Personnel
Surname	Peter Joseph Vermes
birthday	November 21, 1966
place of birth	Willingboro , NJ ,  United States
size	185 cm
position	Defense / storm
Juniors
Years	station
1984	Loyola Greyhounds
1985-1987	Rutgers Scarlet Knights
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1987	Philadelphia United German-Hungarians	(?)
1988	New Jersey Eagles	(2)
1989	Rába ETO	9 0(0)
1990	FC Volendam	28 0(5)
1991	Tampa Bay rowdies	3 0(1)
1991-1995	UE Figueres
1995	→ New York Fever (loan)	25 (16)
1996	MetroStars	33 0(1)
1997-1999	Colorado Rapids	98 0(8)
2000-2002	Kansas City Wizards	78 0(2)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1988-1997	United States	67 (11)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2009–	Sporting Kansas City
1 Only league games are given.

Peter Vermes (born November 21, 1966 in Willingboro , New Jersey ) is a retired American football player. During his playing days he played both in the position of forward and as a defender.

youth

Vermes played soccer at Delran High School in Delran, New Jersey. By the time he graduated in 1984, he had scored 109 goals. In 1999 he was named one of the ten best high school players of the 1980s by The Star-Ledger newspaper.

In his freshman year of college played for the Loyola Greyhounds at Loyola College, Maryland . A year later he moved to Rutgers University . There he spent the next three years. In 1987 he also played for the Philadelphia United German-Hungarians .

Club career

After graduating from college, Vermes went to Europe and played for Rába ETO in Hungary and FC Volendam in the Netherlands . He was the first American to ever play in the first division of Hungary and the Netherlands.

In May 1991 Vermes returned to the United States and played for the Tampa Bay Rowdies in the American Professional Soccer League . In the same year he moved to the second Spanish division for UE Figueres. There he played from 1991 to 1995, where he was loaned to New York Fever in his senior year.

When Major League Soccer was introduced in 1996 , he played for the MetroStars and was their team captain in the first MLS season. On February 3, 1997, Vermes was exchanged for Kerry Zavagnin from the Colorado Rapids . There he played until 1999. His last three active years he spent with the Kansas City Wizards .

In the 2000 season, Vermes was named the best defender in the MLS. He also won the MLS Cup with the team that season.

National team

Vermes played his first international game on May 14, 1988 against Colombia. In total, he played 67 times for the United States national soccer team . With the national team he took part in the 1988 Summer Olympics , the 1990 World Cup and the 1991 CONCACAF Gold Cup .

For the 1998 World Cup he was in the extended squad, but was not nominated for the final selection.

With the US futsal team , he finished third in the first Futsal World Cup in 1989 .

Coaching career

On November 15, 2006, Vermes became the new Technical Director at the Kansas City Wizards. Previously, he worked as a broadcaster for the San Jose Earthquakes, was a technical trainer at the Blue Valley Soccer Club in Overland Park, Kansas, and was the assistant coach of the US U-20 national team.

On August 4, 2009, he became an interim coach with the Wizards after the previous coach Curt Onalfo was dismissed. Under Vermes, the team celebrated some positive successes, but still only managed 6th place in the Eastern Conference.

Since November 9, 2009, Vermes has been the head coach of the team that has been called Sporting Kansas City since the end of 2010.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ed Farnsworth: Great Philly teams: United German Hungarians . In: phillysoccerpage.net, July 29, 2010.
2. ↑ Kansas City to name Vermes head coach published on www.soccerbyives.net on November 10, 2009

predecessor	Office	successor
Brent Goulet	USA Footballer of the Year 1988	Mike Windischmann