Thomas Rongen

Quick Facts

Full Name	Thomas Rongen
Occupation	Soccer Player
Date Of Birth	Oct 31, 1956(1956-10-31)
Age	68
Birthplace	Amsterdam
Country	Netherlands
Birth City	North Holland
Horoscope	Libra

Thomas Rongen Biography

Thomas Rongen is one of the most popular and richest Soccer Player who was born on October 31, 1956 in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands. Dutch football coach, and former player who is known for his playing career at various kinds in American soccer. He was the winner of the MLS Cup as coach of DC United in 1999 and was the coach of players of the US U-20 National Team to two U-20 World Cups.

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Rongen began his playing career with Amsterdamsche FC, with whom he played as defensive midfielder and defender from 1973 to 1979.

In 1979, Rongen moved to the United States, joining the Los Angeles Aztecs of the North American Soccer League. Rongen spent the entire 1979 season with the Aztecs. He then began the 1980 season in Los Angeles. On 12 July 1980, the Aztecs sold his contract to the Washington Diplomats. The team folded at the end of the season and Rongen moved to the Fort Lauderdale Strikers where he would remain for the next three seasons. In 1984, Joe Robbie, owner of the Strikers, moved the team to Minneapolis, Minnesota where it was renamed the Minnesota Strikers. Rongen moved with the team and spent the 1984 outdoor season there. The league collapsed at the end of the season.

His wife Gail Megaloudis got married in 1996. They had children together from her previous marriage.

Thomas Rongen Net Worth

Thomas Rongen is one of the richest Soccer Player from Netherlands. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Thomas Rongen 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After beginning playing professionally in the year 1973 at AFC in Amsterdam Then, he emigrated into the US and began playing with five leagues of soccer.

He was appointed the head coach in American Samoa in 2011 and helped lead American Samoa to its first victory, which was later documented in an British documentary.

Thomas Rongen (born 31 October 1956) is a Dutch-American football coach who has spent the majority of his playing and coaching career in the United States. In December 2016, he was named Chief Scout of the United States Men’s National Team. Rongen won the MLS Coach of the Year award in MLS’s inaugural season in 1996, leading the Tampa Bay Mutiny to the best regular-season record.

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Upon leaving United, Rongen was appointed head coach of the United States U-20 men’s national soccer team, which he coached from 2001 to his appointment as head coach of Chivas USA for the team’s inaugural season in 2005. However, ten games into the season, with the team’s record standing at one win, one tie, and eight losses, he was let go of his head coaching duties.

Facts & Trivia

Thomas Ranked on the list of most popular Soccer Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Netherlands. Thomas Rongen celebrates birthday on October 31 of every year.

Rongen was appointed head coach of the Under-20 United States men’s national team again in 2006 and led the team to the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup and 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup. He was fired from that position in May 2011 after a series of major gaffes, the most striking being in 2007 when Rongen lost the U.S. national team a future star defender Neven Subotić, a Serbian-American who has since won the Bundesliga and reached the Champions League final, by publicly criticizing him and subsequently leaving Subotić off the U.S. U-20 World Cup roster.