Roy Wegerle

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Roy Wegerle
Personnel
Surname Roy Common Alder
birthday March 19, 1964
place of birth Pretoria ,  South Africa
size 181 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1981 Arcadia Shepherds
1982-1983 South Florida Bulls
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1984 Tampa Bay rowdies 21 0(9)
1984-1986 Tacoma Stars 59 (36)
1986-1988 Chelsea FC 23 0(3)
1988 Swindon Town 7 0(1)
1988-1989 Luton Town 45 (12)
1989-1992 Queens Park Rangers 75 (29)
1992-1993 Blackburn Rovers 34 0(6)
1993-1995 Coventry City 53 0(9)
1996-1997 Colorado Rapids 36 0(4)
1997-1998 DC United 22 0(5)
1998 Tampa Bay Mutiny 12 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1992-1998 United States 41 (7)
1 Only league games are given.

Roy Common Wegerle (born March 19, 1964 in Pretoria , South Africa ) is a former football player .

With the national team of the USA he took part in the World Championships in 1994 and 1998 . Under the former national coaches of the US team Bora Milutinović (1994) and Steve Sampson (1998), he was positioned several times as a striker . Wegerle played a total of 41 international matches and scored seven goals. As a South African immigrant of Swabian-Dutch origin, Wegerle would have had the right to play for other national teams ( England , South Africa, Germany , the Netherlands ), but he decided to play for the United States' football association.

Before retiring in 1998, he was an interim coach and player for the Colorado Rapids in Major League Soccer (MLS) in the USA. He ended his active career with the Tampa Bay Mutiny .

Wegerle is now a professional golfer and co-host of a soccer sport program on American television.

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personal data
SURNAME Wegerle, Roy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wegerle, Roy Common (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Pretoria