Thomas Dooley

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Tom Dooley
Personnel
Surname Thomas Dooley
birthday May 12, 1961
place of birth Bechhofen ,  Germany
size 185 cm
position Striker , midfield , defense
Juniors
Years station
0000-1979 TuS Eintracht Bechhofen
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
TuS Eintracht Bechhofen
1979-1981 TuS Landstuhl
1981-1983 FK Pirmasens
1983-1988 FC 08 Homburg 154 (36)
1988-1993 1. FC Kaiserslautern 107 (13)
1994-1995 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 16 0(2)
1995-1997 FC Schalke 04 28 0(3)
1997-1999 Columbus crew 63 0(5)
2000 NY / NJ MetroStars 20 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1992-1999 United States 81 0(7)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2002-2003 1. FC Saarbrücken
2011-2014 USA (assistant coach)
2014-2018 Philippines
1 Only league games are given.

Thomas "Tom" Dooley (born May 12, 1961 in Bechhofen , Rhineland-Palatinate ) is a former German - American football player and today's trainer and non-fiction author .

Career

In his youth, Dooley played for TuS Eintracht 1912 Bechhofen and was also used there for senior citizens in the district league. This was followed by positions at the Oberliga clubs TuS Landstuhl and FK Pirmasens . In the Bundesliga, Dooley played for FC 08 Homburg (31 games in the Oberliga - 16 goals, 75 games in the 2nd Bundesliga - 18 goals, 48 ​​Bundesliga games - 2 goals), 1. FC Kaiserslautern , Bayer 04 Leverkusen and FC Schalke 04 199 games and scored 20 goals. He also played in Major League Soccer at Columbus Crew and together with Lothar Matthäus at NY / NJ MetroStars .

With Kaiserslautern he won the German Cup in 1990 and German Champion in 1991 . After the soccer World Cup in 1994 he joined Bayer Leverkusen and won the 1997 UEFA Cup with FC Schalke, to which he moved a year later .

Dooley is the son of a US soldier and a German mother. In the run-up to the World Cup in 1994 in the USA, the American Football Association offered him to play for the USA national team. Dooley then also took American citizenship, but was able to keep his German citizenship .

In 1993 he played in the US Cup for the United States and scored two goals in the 3-4 loss to Germany.

For the USA he took part in the World Championships in 1994 and 1998 . In total, Dooley made 81 appearances for the United States, scoring seven goals. At the soccer world championship in 1998 he was captain of the team. For the first time he had exercised this function within the team at the international match against Ecuador in August 1997.

In 2002 and 2003 Dooley worked for a short time at 1. FC Saarbrücken as a trainer and sports director.

Together with Christian Titz and his brother Steven Dooley, he founded the Dooley Soccer University in 2002 . Since 2005 he has owned the Orange County Kings football club in Laguna Niguel , California .

In May 2006 he hosted an international soccer tennis tournament in Los Angeles , which the Brazilians won. Teams from eight countries, composed mainly of well-known footballers, took part in this tournament. The tournament was supposed to serve as the prelude to the soccer tennis offensive in the USA.

In August 2011, Dooley was appointed to the interim assistant coaching team at Jürgen Klinsmann's premiere as national coach of the United States' national soccer team. From February 2014 to March 2018, Dooley was the head coach of the Philippines national team .

Books

Together with Christian Titz, Dooley is the author of several books, some of which have also been published in English:

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Dooley , accessed February 3, 2014
  2. ↑ Thomas Dooley ; FC-08-Homburg-Archiv, accessed on June 20, 2013
  3. ^ Jacq Roos: Global United FC secures Thomas Dooley ( Memento of April 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ); Article on the homepage of Dutch Lions FC, March 30, 2010
  4. ↑ US coach Klinsmann appoints Tom Dooley to his coaching team . dpa article in the Palatinate Merkur of August 6, 2011; Retrieved February 3, 2014.
  5. ↑ Dooley new Philippines coach . Report on Sport1 from February 3, 2014 (accessed on February 3, 2014).
  6. ↑ Ex-England captain Butcher new national coach of the Philippines . ( transfermarkt.de [accessed June 15, 2018]).
predecessor Office successor
Marcelo Balboa United States Footballer of the Year
1993 		Marcelo Balboa
personal data
SURNAME Dooley, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dooley, Tom
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Bechhofen (Pfalz) , Germany