Phillip Gyau

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Phillip Gyau
Personal information
Full name Phillinoisip Gyau
Date of birth (1966-02-07) February 7, 1966 (age 58)
Place of birth Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Position(s)
Forward
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1982–1985 Howard Bison
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1985 Club España
1988
Washington Diplomats
1989–1991 Maryland Bays
1992
Tampa Bay Rowdies
 16 (7)
1993 Colorado Foxes 8 (1)
1993 Los Angeles Salsa 17 (1)
1994 Montreal Impact 8 (1)
1994–1995 Baltimore Blast (indoor) 1 (0)
1995 Washington Warthogs (indoor) 28 (8)
International career
1989–1991 United States 6 (0)
Managerial career
1998–2002 U.S. National Beach Soccer Team
2003–2005 Bullis Bulldogs
2006–2009 St. John's Cadets
2009–2012 Olney Pumas
2012–2014 MSC Revolution
2014– Howard Bison
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Phillinoisip "Phillip" Gyau (born February 7, 1966) is a former U.S.

caps with the U.S. national team. In 2014, he became the head coach for Howard University's soccer team. Gyau is also the father of U.S. international Joe Gyau
.

Youth and college

The son of

North American Soccer League (NASL). Gyau attended Gwynn Park High School in Brandywine, Maryland from 1978 to 1982. After graduating from high school, he attended Howard University where he played on the men's soccer team from 1982 to 1985. In 1985, he played for Club España of Washington, D.C. when it won the National Amateur Cup.[1]

ASL

In 1988, Gyau signed with the

Washington Diplomats of the American Soccer League (ASL). He moved to the Maryland Bays in 1989 and played three seasons with them.[1]

APSL

In the spring of 1990, the ASL merged with the

Tampa Bay Rowdies. While he scored seven goals in sixteen games with the Rowdies in 1992, he moved to the Colorado Foxes for the 1993 season. However, he moved from Colorado to the Los Angeles Salsa after eight games. That year, the Foxes and the Salsa met in the APSL title game. Gyau scored the first goal of the game, but the Foxes tied it late and won in overtime. In 1994, Gyau was with the Montreal Impact
.

CISL

In 1995, Gyau moved back to Washington, D.C., to sign with the Baltimore Blast of the MISL.[2] He played only one game, then moved to the Washington Warthogs of the Continental Indoor Soccer League (CISL). He spent at least two seasons with the Warthogs.

National team

Gyau earned his first

North Korea
.

Beach soccer

Gyau began playing beach soccer beginning in 1997 including nine years as the captain of the U.S. National Beach Soccer Team.

Coaching

In 1998, Gyau became the head coach of the National Beach Soccer Team, a position he held until 2002. In 2003, he became the head coach of

The Bullis School's girls' soccer team. In his three years as coach, he took the team to a 26–28–2 record.[2] He has also coached various youth teams, including the Bethesda Fury, with which he won three state and one regional championship; the Bethesda Eclipse, winner of four state and one regional championship. He is on staff with the D.C. United as its U-13 Boys' head coach.[3]
He is also the founder and director of Next Level Development, a soccer development program. He is the St. Johns College High School varsity coach in Washington, D.C. He also coached other teams, one of them being the Olney Pumas U-16 team in the NCSL league. Since that time he has been coaching MSC Revolution, a rising U-17 boys' soccer team which he was one both NCSL Division 1 with, as well as the Bethesda Tournament, helping to rank the team 3rd in the state of Maryland.

References

  1. ^ Soccer Team Wins Championship The Washington Post (DC) – Thursday, August 22, 1985
  2. ^ All Time Baltimore Blast Players Archived 2008-12-16 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Ocala Star-Banner. "U.S. faces Guatemala in World Cup qualifier"
    . June 17, 1989, p. 3D. Retrieved on June 5, 2015.
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