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Jeff Agoos
Personal information
Full name	Jeffrey Alan Agoos
Date of birth	May 2, 1968 (age 38)
Place of birth	Geneva, Switzerland
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Nickname	Goose, Agoof
Playing position	Defender
Youth clubs
1986, 1988-1990	University of Virginia
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1991 1991-1992 1994-1995 1996-2000 2000 2001-2004 2005	Maryland Bays Dallas Sidekicks SV Wehen DC United → West Bromwich Albion (loan) San Jose Earthquakes MetroStars	005 (0) 158 (7) 098 (6) 027 (0)
National team2
1988–2003	United States	134 (4)
Teams managed
1995	University of Virginia (assistant)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 31 May 2006. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 22 June 2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Jeffrey ("Jeff") Alan Agoos (born May 2, 1968 in Geneva, Switzerland) is a former American soccer defender, and one of the all-time appearance leaders for the United States national team.

Agoos (nicknamed Goose), was born in Switzerland, when his father, who was a U.S. diplomat, was posted there. However, he was raised in Texas, and has won a record five MLS championships as a player: three with DC United (for whom he played from 1996 to 2000) and two with the San Jose Earthquakes (2001-2004).

Contents 1 High School 2 Collegiate career 3 Initial Professional Career 4 Move to Germany 5 Major League Soccer 6 National Team 7 Post-Playing Career

Agoos attended J.J. Pearce High School in Richardson, Texas. He was named a two-time Parade Magazine High School All-American as well as a Dallas All-Sports Athlete-of-the-Year. He led his team to the 1983 Texas State Championship

From 1986 to 1990, Agoos played soccer for Bruce Arena at the University of Virginia. During his four seasons with the Caveliers, earned First-Team All-American honors twice, in 1988 and 1990. He finished second in Hermann Award voting his senior season.

In 1989, His junior year, Virginia went to the NCAA championship game where it fought the University of Santa Clara to a 1-1 draw after 4 overtimes. While the teams wanted to continue to play, NCAA officials ended the game and declared the two teams co-champions. At the time there were no penalty kicks to end a tie.

Upon graduating from college, Agoos played for the Maryland Bays of the A-League in 1991. He then moved to the Dallas Sidekicks of the indoor Major Soccer League for the 1991-1992 season.

After that he moved to Germany, where he played for SV Wehen during the 1994-95 season.

After returning from Germany in 1995, he served as an assistant coach to Bruce Arena at the University of Virginia.

In 1996, Agoos returned to the United States to join Major League Soccer MLS. In order to create a league, MLS allocated various recognized players to each team. As part of this process, the league allocated Agoos to DC United where he joined Bruce Arena, the team's first coach. That year, Agoos won the first MLS Championship as well as the U.S. Open Cup. He followed it up the next year with his second MLS Championship. In 1998, DC United achieved its greatest accomplishment when it defeated Vasco de Gama] to take the Interamerican Cup.

Agoos was named MLS Defender of the Year in 2001 and earned a place in the MLS Best XI three times (1997, 1999, and 2001).

He was traded to the MetroStars after the 2004 season for a fourth round draft pick. In ten years in MLS, Agoos scored 11 regular season goals and added 25 assists in 244 matches. In 2005, he was named to the MLS All-Time Best XI, before retiring December 8, 2005.

Agoos made his debut with the United States national team on January 13, 1988 against Guatemala. Jeff was the last member to be cut from the US squad for the 1994 FIFA World Cup and he burned his uniform upon hearing the news. He made the squad for the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France but did not play a single minute, in favor of David Regis. In the World Cup in South Korea/Japan at the age of 34, Jeff started the first three games (he scored an own goal to finish the scoring in the surprising win against Portugal) until he suffered a calf injury against Poland. He later missed the rest of the tournament. He was capped a total of 134 times for the U.S.

Agoos earned his last cap against Wales on May 26, 2003.

Agoos was also a member of the 1992 Team USA Futsal team which won a silver medal at Hong Kong. He earned 10 caps and scored 2 goals with the futsal team.

As of September, 2006, Agoos appears certain to be named the technical director of the New York Red Bulls, serving under head coach Bruce Arena.[1]

	United States squad - 1998 FIFA World Cup
1 Friedel | 2 Hejduk | 3 Pope | 4 Burns | 5 Dooley | 6 Regis | 7 Wegerle | 8 Stewart | 9 Moore | 10 Ramos | 11 Wynalda | 12 Agoos | 13 Jones | 14 Preki | 15 Deering | 16 Sommer | 17 Balboa | 18 Keller | 19 Maisonneuve | 20 McBride | 21 Reyna | 22 Lalas | Coach: Sampson

	United States squad - 2002 FIFA World Cup Quarter-finalists
1 Friedel | 2 Hejduk | 3 Berhalter | 4 Mastroeni | 5 O'Brien | 6 Regis | 7 Lewis | 8 Stewart | 9 Moore | 10 Reyna | 11 Mathis | 12 Agoos | 13 Jones | 14 Cherundolo | 15 Wolff | 16 Llamosa | 17 Beasley | 18 Keller | 19 Meola | 20 McBride | 21 Donovan | 22 Sanneh | 23 Pope | Coach: Arena

Major League Soccer | MLS All-Time Best XI
Tony Meola | Jeff Agoos | Marcelo Balboa | Eddie Pope | Landon Donovan | Marco Etcheverry Piotr Nowak | Preki | Carlos Valderrama | Brian McBride | Jaime Moreno