David Vanole

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David Charles Vanole (February 6, 1963 - January 15, 2007) was a U.S. soccer goalkeeper and coach. He spent his professional career in the Western Soccer Alliance and its successor league, the American Professional Soccer League. He also earned 14 caps with the U.S. national team including the 1988 Summer Olympics and the 1990 FIFA World Cup.

[edit] Youth and college

He attended Aviation High School in Redondo Beach, California where he was a three-sport letterman and a four-time All-Ocean League goalkeeper.

Vanole played for UCLA from 1981 to 1985. As a junior, he backstopped UCLA to the NCAA Men's Soccer Championship. In that game, UCLA defeated American University in 8 overtimes.

[edit] Western Soccer League

After graduating from UCLA, Vanole played first for the Los Angeles Heat then the San Francisco Bay Blackhawks of the American Professional Soccer League (APSL). In 1991, he was a member of the APSL championship Blackhawks.

[edit] National team

Vanole earned his first cap with the national team in a February 5, 1986 0-0 tie with Canada. He would go on to appear a total of 18 times for the U.S. national team; however, only 14 are counted as full internationals. Vanole played 4 games with the U.S. Olympic team, including the 1988 Summer Olympics. While the U.S. national team doubled as the U.S. Olympic team at the 1988 Olympics, FIFA does not count Olympic matches as full internationals. Vanole started 4 of the 5 games played by the national team in 1986 and 1987. However, he shared duties with a string of other goalkeepers in 1988. By the end of 1988, he had regained the position of the top U.S. goalkeeper only to lose control of his weight in 1989 and lost his starting position to Tony Meola. The clinching moment came in a U.S. game against Italian club A. S. Roma. While the U.S. won 4-3, Vanole's poor performance convinced Gansler to give the starting job to Meola.

In January, 1990, Vanole, under contract to the United States Soccer Federation, sat out the national team's training camp with a contract dispute. However, he was selected as the backup goalkeeper to Tony Meola at the 1990 FIFA World Cup. Since he never played, his last official cap came in 1989.

Vanole also played on the Pro Beach Soccer tour for four years and was twice voted the best goalkeeper on the beach

[edit] Post playing career

He spent six years as an assistant coach for goalkeepers for both the men and women's teams at UCLA; U.S. Women's Olympic and National Teams; and the Men's U-20 team. He has also served as the goalkeeper coach for D.C. United of Major League Soccer (MLS) as well as the Washington Freedom of the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA).

He was the goalkeeper coach for the New England Revolution of MLS from 2004 to 2006.

Vanole, who lived in New York City, died on January 15, 2007 in Salt Lake City during a family skiing vacation. He is survived by his wife, Kerry Tatlock, the NBA's senior director of global marketing partnerships, as well as by his mother, siblings, and large extended family.

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