Sean O'Connor (soccer) Sean O'Connor (soccer) Sean O'Connor (born June 15, 1984 in La Crescenta, California) is a former American soccer player. O'Connor attended Saint Francis High School, leading them to a CIF title in 2001 as 1st Team All-CIF Goalkeeper, played club soccer in the Coast Soccer League for the Burbank Red Machine, and played college soccer at Belmont Abbey College, where he was twice named All-Carolinas-Virginia Athletics Conference and, as captain, guided Belmont-Abbey to the 2005 CVAC championship. During his college years O'Connor was on the roster of the San Fernando Valley Quakes in the USL Premier Development League for two
American coaches of foreign national soccer teams American coaches of foreign national soccer teams Several Americans have served as the head coach of a foreign national soccer team. Americans coaching foreign national teams is seen as an important step in improving the perceptions of American soccer. During the 1900s, Americans coaching foreign national teams were rare. The first American to coach a foreign national soccer team was Mark Scott Thompson, who was appointed El Salavador's first ever head coach in 1930. Alkis Panagoulias led the U.S. team in the 1980s including the 1984 Summer Olympics, before soccer had become fully established in the U.S., in between stints