Mike Sorber
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| Full name | Michael Steven Sorber | |||||||||||
| Date of birth | May 14, 1971 | |||||||||||
| Place of birth | St. Louis, Missouri, United States | |||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Midfielder | |||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||
| 1989–1992 | Saint Louis University | |||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
| 1994–1996 | UNAM | 51 | (1) | |||||||||
| 1996 | Kansas City Wizards | 22 | (4) | |||||||||
| 1997–1999 | MetroStars | 74 | (4) | |||||||||
| 2000 | Chicago Fire | 19 | (1) | |||||||||
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| 1992–1998 | United States | 67 | (2) | |||||||||
| Teams managed | ||||||||||||
| 2001–2006 | Saint Louis University (assistant) | |||||||||||
| 2007–2011 | United States (assistant) | |||||||||||
| 2012 | Montreal Impact (assistant) | |||||||||||
| 2013 | United States (assistant) | |||||||||||
| 2014– | Philadelphia Union (assistant) | |||||||||||
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Michael "Mike" Steven Sorber (born May 14, 1971) is a retired American soccer player and currently serves as an assistant coach for the Philadelphia Union in Major League Soccer. He played professionally in the United States and Mexico, and was a member of the U.S. national team at the 1994 FIFA World Cup.
Sorber was born and raised in in Florissant, Missouri in the St. Louis area, where his father Pete Sorber was the head coach of the St. Louis Community College-Florissant Valley soccer team for 30 years. During those years, he led the college to 10 National Junior College Athletic Association national championships.
Under his father's tutelage, Mike developed into a polished youth player. He played boys' soccer at St. Thomas Aquinas-Mercy High School where he was part of two Missouri state championship teams in 1985 and 1988. His senior year, he was honored as part of the All-Great Midwest Conference team and was the North MVP at the St. Louis North–South High School Senior All Star Game.[1]
After graduating from high school in 1989, Sorber played NCAA soccer with the Saint Louis University men's soccer team. He was part of the Billikens’ 1991 Final Four appearance in the NCAA tournament and was a 1992 Hermann Trophy finalist. He ended his career at St. Louis with 13 goals and 29 assists. While he finished his college playing career in 1992, Sorber continued to work on his college education and graduated in 1994 with a bachelor's degree in communications with a minor in criminal justice.
After spending two years contracted to the U.S. national team leading up to the 1994 World Cup, Sorber moved to Mexico to play first division soccer with UNAM. He played two seasons with Pumas and became the first American player ever to be named a Mexican League All Star.
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