Curt Onalfo
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Curt Onalfo | ||
| Date of birth | November 19, 1969 | ||
| Place of birth | São Paulo, Brazil | ||
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1987–1990 | Virginia Cavaliers | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1991–1992 | La Ciotat | ||
| 1994–1995 | Connecticut Wolves | ||
| 1995–1996 | Los Angeles Galaxy | 13 | (0) |
| 1995 | → Tampico Madero (loan) | ||
| 1997 | San Jose Clash | 6 | (0) |
| 1998–1999 | D.C. United | 4 | (0) |
| 1998 | → MLS Pro 40 (loan) | 2 | (0) |
| 1999 | → Maryland Mania (loan) | 1 | (0) |
| 1999 | → MLS Pro 40 (loan) | 2 | (0) |
| 1999 | → Hampton Roads Mariners (loan) | 2 | (0) |
| National team | |||
| 1988 | United States | 1 | (0) |
| 1989 | United States U-20 | ||
| 1992 | United States U-23 | ||
| Teams managed | |||
| 2000–2002 | D.C. United (assistant) | ||
| 2001 | D.C. United (interim) | ||
| 2002 | United States U-23 (assistant) | ||
| 2003–2007 | United States (assistant) | ||
| 2007–2009 | Kansas City Wizards | ||
| 2010 | D.C. United | ||
| 2011–2014 | LA Galaxy (assistant) | ||
| 2014–2016 | LA Galaxy II | ||
| 2017– | LA Galaxy | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Curt Onalfo (born November 19, 1969) is an American former soccer player and currently head coach of LA Galaxy in Major League Soccer.
As a player, he played two seasons in France, two in the USISL, one in Mexico and four in Major League Soccer, achieving his most success with Los Angeles Galaxy and D.C. United. He also earned one cap with the United States national team. He has an extensive coaching résumé, mostly as an assistant at the professional and national team levels, and spent two years as the head coach of the Kansas City Wizards. In January 2014, he was named Head Coach of the newly formed LA Galaxy II, a reserve team that plays in the USL Pro.
Though born in São Paulo, Onalfo grew up in Ridgefield, Connecticut, and played high school soccer at Ridgefield High School, before going on to play four years of college soccer at the University of Virginia under Bruce Arena - an association that would serve him well in his later coaching career.
His first professional experience came at La Ciotat, in the French fifth division, but a six-month battle with Hodgkin's Disease in 1993 disrupted his career and almost ended his life. After extensive chemotherapy, the cancer went into remission and Onalfo recovered, going on to play for the Connecticut Wolves of the USISL in 1994 and 1995. In 1995, he signed with Major League Soccer which was planning to begin its first season that year. When the league was forced to delay its first season until 1996, the league sent Onalfo on loan with Tampico Madero of the Mexican second division. He met and married his wife in Tampico and his family still maintain a home there; Onalfo also speaks fluent Spanish. In February 1996, the Los Angeles Galaxy selected Onalfo in the eight round (seventy-fourth overall) in the inaugural draft. He would feature in almost half of the Galaxy's games that year, as well as the first MLS Cup. He went on to play for the San Jose Clash (later the Earthquakes) in the next season, and then for D.C. United in 1998 and 1999, winning the MLS Cup with United in his last year. In 1999, United sent Onalfo on loan to MLS Pro 40, Virginia Beach Mariners and Maryland Mania.
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