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Steve Ralston
Personal information
Full name Steve Ralston
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 retired
Youth career
1991–1995 FIU Golden Panthers
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1996–2001 Tampa Bay Mutiny 177 (34)
2002–2009 New England Revolution 201 (42)
2010 AC St. Louis 2 (0)
2010 New England Revolution 1 (0)
Total 381 (76)
International career
1997–2007 United States 36 (4)
Managerial career
2010 AC St. Louis (assistant)
2010–present Houston Dynamo (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Steve Ralston (born June 14, 1974 in Oakville, Missouri) is a retired American soccer player and a current assistant coach for the Houston Dynamo.

Career

Professional

Ralston was drafted 18th overall in the 1996 MLS College Draft by the Tampa Bay Mutiny out of Florida International University, and proceeded to become the first MLS player to win the Rookie of the Year Award. Ralston played for the Mutiny for six years, leaving only after the team was contracted in 2002. He was Tampa Bay's all-time leader in games played (177) and points (130). he then joined the New England Revolution. In his first year with the Revolution, Ralston led the league in assists with 19. In thirteen years in the league, he scored 76 goals and had 135 assists in 378 regular season matches, and added three goals and five assists in 30 playoff matches. He also served as captain for several seasons with New England.

Ralston is currently the Major League’s Soccer all-time career leader in assists (135), appearances (378), starts (372) and minutes played (33,143). He also holds the U.S. record for professional appearances (412).[1]

Soon after leaving New England, Ralston became the first ever signing of new USSF Division 2 club AC St. Louis.[2] Ralston was one of the team's starting midfielders, and an assistant coach to head coach Claude Anelka.

After AC St. Louis ran in to financial difficulties, Ralston agreed to leave by mutual consent and immediately joined up with his former club New England Revolution.[3]

In Ralston's first appearance back with the New England Revolution, he suffered a left elbow dislocation. In July 2010, he announced his retirement.[4]

International

Ralston appeared for the United States national team 36 times over an 11 year span and scored 4 international goals. His first cap came on January 17, 1997 against Peru. His last was for the squad that won the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup. He was never selected to a World Cup roster.

Ralston had a break out year for the United States national team in 2005 by earning 15 caps. He scored the game winning goal in a World Cup qualifying match against Mexico on September 3, 2005. The victory for the United States clinched qualification in the 2006 FIFA World Cup.[5] Despite his national team performances in 2005 he was only listed as an alternate for the United States at the World Cup.

International goals

# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. January 18, 2003 Lockhart Stadium, Fort Lauderdale, USA  Canada
4 – 0
4 – 0
Friendly
2. July 19, 2003 Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, USA  Cuba
3 – 0
5 – 0
2003 Gold Cup
3. March 30, 2005 Legion Field, Birmingham, AL, USA  Guatemala
2 – 0
2 – 0
Q 2006 World Cup
4. September 3, 2005 Columbus Crew Stadium, Columbus, USA  Mexico
1 – 0
2 – 0
Q 2006 World Cup

Coaching career

After his signing with AC St. Louis was named as the new Assistant Coach of the club.[6] In July 2010, Ralson took an assistant coaching job at the Houston Dynamo with his former teammate Dominic Kinnear from the Tampa Bay Mutiny.[7]

Personal life

Ralston is married to Rachel and the couple has two daughters, Anna (7) and Clara (1), and one son, Liam (3)[8]

Career statistics

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Mutiny||rowspan="14"|Major League
Soccer||31||7||||||5||1|||||||| |- |1997||29||5||||||1||0|||||||| |- |1998||30||5||||||0||0|||||||| |- |1999||32||5||||||2||0|||||||| |- |2000||30||5||||||2||0|||||||| |- |2001||25||7||||||0||0|||||||| |- |2002||rowspan="8"|New England
Revolution||27||5||||||7||1|||||||| |- |2003||26||4||||||3||0|||||||| |- |2004||30||7||||||3||1|||||||| |- |2005||21||1||||||4||0|||||||| |- |2006||30||6||||||3||0|||||||| |- |2007||26||4||||||4||0|||||||| |- |2008||21||8||||||0||0|||||||| |- |2009||20||7||||||0||0|||||||| |- |2010||A.C. St. Louis||USSF D2||2||0||||||0||0|||||||| |- |- |2010||rowspan="1"|New England
Revolution||rowspan="1"|Major League
Soccer||1||0||||||0||0|||||||| |- Template:Football player statistics 3381||76||||||34||3|||||||| |- Template:Football player statistics end

Honors

United States

New England Revolution

Individual

References

  1. ^ "Revs statement on captain Steve Ralston". RevolutionSoccer. Retrieved 2010-01-30.
  2. ^ Ralston introduced as first AC St. Louis player
  3. ^ http://www.soccerbyives.net/soccer_by_ives/2010/06/ralston-returns-to-revolution.html
  4. ^ http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/article/ralston-set-announce-retirement
  5. ^ Keller blanks Mexico to lead USA to World Cup
  6. ^ STEVE RALSTON SIGNS WITH AC ST. LOUIS: Will Serve as Player-Assistant Coach
  7. ^ [1]
  8. ^ Steve Ralston Biography at RevolutionSoccer.net
Preceded by MLS Fair Play Award Winner
1999 and 2000 		Succeeded by
Preceded by MLS Fair Play Award Winner
2009 		Succeeded by

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