Cobi Jones
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Jones leaving Wellington International Airport in 2007
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| Full name | Cobi N'Gai Jones | |||||||||||
| Date of birth | June 16, 1970 | |||||||||||
| Place of birth | Detroit, Michigan, U.S. | |||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Midfielder | |||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||
| 1985–1988 | Westlake Warriors | |||||||||||
| College career | ||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
| 1988–1991 | UCLA Bruins | |||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
| 1994–1995 | Coventry City | 24 | (2) | |||||||||
| 1995–1996 | Vasco da Gama | 4 | (1) | |||||||||
| 1996–2007 | Los Angeles Galaxy | 306 | (70) | |||||||||
| Total | 334 | (73) | ||||||||||
| National team | ||||||||||||
| 1992–2004 | United States | 164 | (15) | |||||||||
| Teams managed | ||||||||||||
| 2008 | Los Angeles Galaxy (interim) | |||||||||||
| 2008–2010 | Los Angeles Galaxy (assistant) | |||||||||||
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Cobi N'Gai Jones (born June 16, 1970) is an American former soccer player and is the analyst for the Los Angeles Galaxy on Time Warner Cable SportsNet. He can also be seen on Fox Sports, BeIN Sports, and the Pac-12 Network.
As a player, he was a midfielder from 1994 until 2007, starting his career in England with Premier League club Coventry City, before playing for Brazilian side Vasco da Gama. He is one of a significant group of American national team stars who returned from overseas to aid the then new Major League Soccer in 1996, beginning an 11-year spell with the Los Angeles Galaxy. Jones is the all-time leader in caps for the United States national team and a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame.
Following retirement, he served as an assistant coach with the former club Galaxy for two seasons.
Jones grew up in Southern California. He played soccer with AYSO starting at age 5 in Westlake Village, California. After graduating from Westlake High School, Jones emerged as a talented player in college, making the UCLA soccer team as a non-scholarship player, ultimately becoming one of its most successful soccer-playing graduates. While attending UCLA, Jones was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha, an international fraternity.
After playing in the 1994 World Cup held in the United States, Jones signed with English team Coventry City of the Premier League, where he spent one season. Jones trained with German club FC Köln of the Bundesliga before joining Brazilian club Vasco da Gama after impressive performances with the U.S. national team in the 1995 Copa America. After only a few months in Brazil, Jones signed with the new Los Angeles Galaxy franchise for Major League Soccer's inaugural season.
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