Perry Van der Beck
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Percival Van der Beck | ||
| Date of birth | November 5, 1959 | ||
| Place of birth | Florissant, Missouri, United States | ||
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1978–1982 | Tampa Bay Rowdies | 73 | (6) |
| 1979–1982 | Tampa Bay Rowdies (indoor) | ||
| 1983 | Team America | 28 | (1) |
| 1984 | Tampa Bay Rowdies | 24 | (15) |
| 1984–1987 | Dallas Sidekicks (indoor) | 57 | (15) |
| 1987–1988 | St. Louis Steamers (indoor) | 41 | (7) |
| 1988–1990 | Wichita Wings (indoor) | 97 | (19) |
| 1991–1993 | Tampa Bay Rowdies | 58 | (4) |
| 1995–1997 | Tampa Bay Terror (indoor) | 36 | (6) |
| National team | |||
| 1979–1985 | United States | 23 | (2) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1996–1997 | Tampa Bay Terror | ||
| 1998–2001 | Tampa Bay Mutiny (assistant) | ||
| 2001 | Tampa Bay Mutiny | ||
| 2010 | Tampa Bay Rowdies (interim) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Perry Van der Beck (born November 5, 1959 in Florissant, Missouri) is a retired U.S. soccer midfielder and coach and the former technical director of the Tampa Bay Rowdies.
Van der Beck began his playing career with the Tampa Bay Rowdies of the original North American Soccer League and ended it with the Tampa Bay Terror of the indoor National Professional Soccer League. He also earned twenty-three caps, scoring two goals, with the U.S. national team between 1979 and 1985. He played for various indoor and outdoor teams until 1998, when he retired from the pitch and became an assistant coach with the Tampa Bay Mutiny.
After coaching for several other clubs and youth soccer organizations, Van der Beck was hired as the technical director and youth director for the new Tampa Bay Rowdies in 2008. He was later promoted to be the club's executive vice president and director of player development. In January 2014 he was again promoted to the position of general manager. Following the hiring of former teammate Farrukh Quraishi as president and general manager, Van der Beck returned to his role as the team's technical director.
In 1978, the Tampa Bay Rowdies of the North American Soccer League (NASL) drafted Perry Van der Beck out of St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Florissant, Missouri. At the time he was the youngest native born American playing professional soccer. He was also the first American ever drafted out of high school. Despite his youth and relative inexperience when he joined the Rowdies, he gradually worked himself into becoming a significant contributor to the team. At the time, the Rowdies were a top tier team in the NASL. In both 1978 and 1979, they made it to the Soccer Bowl championship game.
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