MLS FC Dallas

Jeff Agoos and Ron Newman Join Texans Credit Union Walk of Fame

Published on October 5, 2006 under Major League Soccer (MLS)
FC Dallas News Release


FRISCO, Texas (Thursday, October 5, 2006) - The 2006 Class of Inductees to the Texans Credit Union Walk of Fame will be officially unveiled on Saturday, Oct. 7 at 6 p.m. at Pizza Hut Park. Former Dallas Tornado Head Coach Ron Newman and former U.S. National Team and MLS defender Jeff Agoos, who was a high school soccer star at J.J. Pearce High School in Richardson, Texas, will be enshrined as the newest members of the Walk of Fame.

Agoos rose to prominence at J.J. Pearce High School from 1982-86, where he led the team to the Texas State Championship in 1983, was a two-time Parade Magazine High School All-American, and named the Dallas All-Sports Athlete of the Year in 1986. He became the University of Virginia's first four-year All-American, and began a professional soccer career that included stints with the Dallas Sidekicks in 1992 and in Germany before joining Major League Soccer in 1996.

In his 10-year MLS career, Agoos won the MLS Cup Championship a record five times, was named an MLS All-Star nine times, selected to the MLS Best XI team on three occasions, was named the 2001 MLS Defender of the Year, and was voted to the MLS All-Time Best XI team in 2005. Agoos won his first three MLS Cups rings (1996, 1997, and 1999) as a member of D.C. United, team with which he played from 1996-2000. From 2001-2004, he played for the San Jose Earthquakes, helping the team claim the 2001 and 2003 MLS Cups, before finishing his career with the MetroStars last year. He earned 134 caps with the U.S. National Team and was a member of U.S. teams that competed in both the 1998 and 2002 FIFA World Cups. Agoos was recently named as the New York Red Bulls Technical Director.

Joining Agoos in the Class of 2006 is arguably the best soccer coach in United States professional soccer history, Ron Newman. After a highly successful playing career in his native England, Newman came to play soccer in the U.S. for the Atlanta Chiefs in 1967. A year later he was traded to the Dallas Tornado of the North American Soccer League (NASL), and in 1969 he was named the team's head coach, a position he held for the next seven years. He led Dallas to its first-ever championship in 1971 and was recognized as that year's NASL Coach of the Year, a title he would capture three times in his career. After a series of successful coaching stops in the late 1970's, he became the coach of indoor soccer's San Diego Sockers in 1980 and won an unprecedented 10 championships through 1992.

A 1992 inductee to the National Soccer Hall of Fame, Newman became the first coach ever hired to lead a Major League Soccer team when the Kansas City Wizards hired him as their inaugural coach on October 11, 1995. He went on to coach the Wizards from 1996-1999, compiling a 50-50 record before retiring with a career professional coaching mark of 753-296-27.

Last year, Lamar Hunt, Gordon Jago, Bill Kinder, Carla Overbeck, Kyle Rote Jr. and Tatu were selected along with four great moments in Texas soccer history to comprise the inaugural class of inductees to the Walk of Fame.

The evening will begin with a private reception for the inductees and other select representatives inside the Verizon Wireless Club from 5:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Following the reception, Agoos and Newman will be joined by representatives from Texans Credit Union, FC Dallas and the Hunt Sports Group at the Walk of Fame where the two men will officially be enshrined and have their monuments unveiled for the first time.

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