Steve Sampson
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| Date of birth | January 19, 1957 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Salt Lake City, Utah, United States | ||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1975–1976 | Foothill College | ||||||||||||||
| 1977–1978 | San Jose State University | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1978–1980 | Awalt High School | ||||||||||||||
| 1981 | Foothill College (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 1982–1985 | UCLA (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 1986–1990 | Santa Clara University | ||||||||||||||
| 1993–1995 | United States (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 1995–1998 | United States | ||||||||||||||
| 2002–2004 | Costa Rica | ||||||||||||||
| 2004–2006 | LA Galaxy | ||||||||||||||
| 2015– | Cal Poly | ||||||||||||||
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| ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of June 22, 2006 | |||||||||||||||
Steve Sampson (born January 19, 1957) is a soccer coach, currently of the men's soccer program at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. He is also the former head coach of both the United States men's national team and the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer. By the media, he is nicknamed Uncle Sam.
Sampson attended UCLA briefly before transferring to Foothill Community College, located in Los Altos Hills, California, in 1975. At Foothill Community he earned All-American honors while playing on the 1976 California junior college state championship team. He then transferred to San Jose State University in 1977. He graduated from San Jose State in 1979 with a minor in Spanish, which he later used as coach of the Costa Rican national soccer team.
After graduating from San Jose State, he moved to Stanford University where he earned a masters degree in education from the Stanford Graduate School of Education. While at Stanford he entered the coaching ranks with the Awalt High School boys varsity soccer team in Mountain View, California. Then, after graduating from Stanford, he served as an assistant men's soccer coach at Foothill College. In 1982, UCLA hired Sampson as an assistant men's soccer coach. In 1985, he was on staff when UCLA won the NCAA men's soccer championship.
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