Tony Meola
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| Full name | Antonio Michael Meola | |||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | February 21, 1969 | |||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Belleville, New Jersey, United States | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | |||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | |||||||||||||||||
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Current team
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Jacksonville Armada FC (Head Coach) | |||||||||||||||||
| College career | ||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||
| 1988–1989 | Virginia Cavaliers | |||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||
| 1990 | → Brighton & Hove Albion (loan) | 2 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| 1990 | → Watford (loan) | 0 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| 1991 | → Fort Lauderdale Strikers (loan) | 7 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| 1994–1995 | Buffalo Blizzard (indoor) | 12 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| 1995 | Long Island Rough Riders | 14 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| 1996–1998 | MetroStars | 90 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| 1999–2004 | Kansas City Wizards | 125 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| 2005–2006 | New York Red Bulls | 35 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | New Jersey Ironmen (indoor) | 24 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| Total | 309 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||
| National team‡ | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1988–2006 | United States | 100 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
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| 2015–2016 | Jacksonville Armada FC | |||||||||||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of October 20, 2008. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of November 24, 2006 |
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Antonio Michael "Tony" Meola (/miˈoʊlə/; born February 21, 1969) is an American former soccer goalkeeper who represented the United States national team at the 1990, 1994, and 2002 World Cups, and from 1996 to 2006 played in Major League Soccer, the U.S. top soccer division, where he obtained multiple honors.
Meola, born in Belleville, New Jersey, grew up in Kearny. He played boys soccer for Kearny High School. He learned his love for the game from his father, Vincenzo, who had played for Italian second division club Avellino before immigrating to the U.S. Tony was All-State both as a goalkeeper (1985) and a forward (1986). He had a part in 41 clean sheets and scored 42 goals during his high school career.
In 1999, he was named by The Star-Ledger as one of the top ten New Jersey high school soccer players of the 1980s. Meola not only excelled at soccer, he was a three-sport varsity letterman. He was the captain of the school's basketball team and was named an All-State baseball player in 1987. The New York Yankees drafted him out of high school. Meola later played in their farm system.
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