Tampa Bay was one of three MLS franchises that did not have an investor/operator when the league launched in 1996. Investor/Operators could purchase a share in the overall league and control the operations of a team. MLS is organized as a single-entity structure. The Tampa Bay Mutiny were one of the ten founding franchises of Major League Soccer in the spring of 1996. I don't want to be moving all over again.We earn commission from purchases made through links on this post "If I go into coaching, it's going to be more of what I've been doing," he said.
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Trittschuh hopes to get into the management end of pro soccer. If this is my last year, I can't complain at all.
"I'm one of the fortunate ones that stuck with it. "This is my 13th year of getting paid to play this game," he said. " His third trip in four years to Thailand for three weeks of off-season conditioning with a Thai playoff team paid off he's starting again. "At the end of the season I told Tim (Hankinson, Mutiny coach), "I'm going to make it off the park this coming year.' When you compare professionals, you compare them to Steve."Īfter being traded to the Mutiny by Colorado on June 15, 1999, Trittschuh lost his starting position to Joe Addo. "He's the first to practice, the last to leave, and he puts everything into his job. "All you look at when you talk about him being 35 is his experience," said assistant coach Perry Van Der Beck. Still, he may well be the best-conditioned member of the Mutiny. That is getting up there by soccer standards. If I want to eat, I've got to cook." He learned that from his father, a steelworker who did the cooking because his mother, a nurse, got home late. Suzanne Trittschuh is a business development representative for Tampa-based Coca-Cola her territory stretches from Lakeland to Apollo Beach. I remember this one game we had one guy who had a bad game and (the fans) found him on the subway and beat him up." "Actually, they'd say something about your game whether you'd had a good one or a bad one. The people would want to talk about the latest game. "One of my first games in Prague (he was the only American in the Czechoslovakian First Division), against another team from Prague, we were down 3-0 and came back and tied it and I scored our fourth goal and we won the game and from then on everybody took to me.
He found out firsthand what it meant if you were good, and secondhand about what could happen if you weren't. "It's the No.ġ thing for those people, and it's a 24-hour thing. The best thing about playing soccer overseas was what's generally missing on this side of the Atlantic _ the fans' passion for the game, Steve said. "Monday you might find lettuce but no tomatoes Tuesday you might find tomatoes. "It felt like sometimes that was all you could find at the market."įriends and family back home would send them CARE packages _ rice, noodles, pasta, salad dressing. Neither of them eats it, "and in Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) and some of those other countries over there that's their basic diet," Suzanne said. The Trittschuhs called it a little piece of home. Suzanne worked at the American Hospitality Center for tourists. In Prague, English was very much a common language. "When the team is winning, everything's great." "When the soccer part (of life) is not good, it colors everything else," Suzanne said. Then the team ran out of money and the paychecks stopped coming. That was probably the most unpleasant time, soccerwise and livingwise." I'd hold out the money and hoped I had enough or that they weren't taking too much. "I didn't speak to anybody at the grocery. "We didn't have friends outside of soccer and not many inside of it," Suzanne said. Trittschuh, was able to get by with his German. In the building where they lived for one season nine years ago, no one spoke English. In Dordrecht, a small community about 80 miles south of the Dutch capital, the townspeople pretty much kept to themselves. "Amsterdam, everybody talks English," he said. Dordrecht, that was the worst, mainly because it wasn't Amsterdam.
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