Head Coach Omid Namazi Given All-Star Honor
January 19, 2006 - Major Indoor Soccer League 2 (MISL 2)
St. Louis Steamers News Release
ST. LOUIS - St. Louis Steamers Head Coach Omid Namazi and Milwaukee Wave Head Coach Keith Tozar have been named by the Major Indoor Soccer League as co-coaches of the MISL All-Stars at the 2006 MISL All-Star Game at Milwaukee's U.S. Cellular Arena on Saturday, February 11, 2006. For the first time, the League's signature mid-season event will feature a collection of MISL All-Stars competing against the Mexican Federation's National Futbol Rapido team. Tozer and Namazi were selected for this honor as their teams are currently tied for first-place in the MISL standings, with 9-3 records. Current Steamers that he will be coaching are Brett Phillips, Shaun David and Jamar Beasley. Steamers defender Genoni Martinez will be a member of the Mexican National squad.
Namazi is in his first season coaching the Steamers, and inherited a Steamers team that finished with a .500 record last season. So far he has the Steamers pushing towards the playoffs with a 9-3 record and have won eight of their last nine games. Namazi, in his eighth season of League head coaching experience, was named the MISL Coach of the Year following last season when he led the Cleveland Force to the MISL Championship Series Finals, where they lost a pair of 10-9 overtime games live on ESPN2, and dropped the 2005 MISL Championship to Tozer's Milwaukee Wave.
Namazi, who like Tozer was also a highly-regarded professional indoor player, was the League's Defender of the Year in 2001 and won an MISL Championship as Philadelphia's player-coach in 2002. This will be Namazi's second All-Star Game as a head coach. His previous experience came in 2001 when he and then-Baltimore head coach, and current general manager Kevin Healey directed the American Conference.
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