Eric Wynalda
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Eric Boswell Wynalda | ||
| Date of birth | June 9, 1969 | ||
| Place of birth | Fullerton, California, United States | ||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| College career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1987–1989 | San Diego State Aztecs | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1988–1992 | San Diego Nomads | 6 | (0) |
| 1990–1992 | → San Francisco Bay Blackhawks (loan) | 17 | (5) |
| 1992–1994 | 1. FC Saarbrücken | 61 | (21) |
| 1994–1996 | VfL Bochum | 29 | (4) |
| 1996–1999 | San Jose Clash | 57 | (21) |
| 1999 | → León (loan) | 5 | (0) |
| 1999–2000 | Miami Fusion | 12 | (3) |
| 2000–2001 | New England Revolution | 8 | (0) |
| 2001 | Chicago Fire | 21 | (10) |
| 2002 | Charleston Battery | 0 | (0) |
| 2007–2008 | Bakersfield Brigade | 4 | (0) |
| Total | 220 | (64) | |
| National team | |||
| 1990–2000 | United States | 106 | (34) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2010–2011 | San Diego Flash (assistant) | ||
| 2012 | Cal FC | ||
| 2012 | Atlanta Silverbacks (interim) | ||
| 2014 | Atlanta Silverbacks | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Eric Boswell Wynalda (born June 9, 1969) is a retired American soccer player, and sports broadcaster. He is currently a soccer analyst on Fox Sports 1.
Wynalda scored the first goal ever in Major League Soccer in 1996 and was the all-time leading goalscorer for the United States national team until 2008. Wynalda was described as a "shifty, dynamic player off the dribble with a heavy shot." He was elected to the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 2004.
Wynalda, of Dutch ancestry, grew up in Westlake Village, California. As a child his team the Westlake Wolves, with Eric's father Dave as the head coach, won the state championship in AYSO soccer. That year Wynalda scored more goals than the entire division his team played in combined (58 goals in 16 games). His skills continued to improve year after year and he attended Westlake High School and was a three time All State selection with the school's boys soccer team and a youth club team mate of fellow national team player Cobi Jones.
He attended San Diego State University from 1987 to 1989 where he played for the Aztecs men's soccer team, scoring 34 goals and assisting on 25 others during his three seasons. His freshman year, SDSU went to the NCAA Men's Soccer Championship game where it lost to the Bruce Murray led Clemson Tigers. While at SDSU, he also played two seasons with the local semi-pro San Diego Nomads of the Western Soccer Alliance. In 1988, he played a single game and in 1989, he played 5 games with the Nomads.
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