David Dir is a former United States soccer player, coach and broadcaster.
Dir played youth soccer with the Chicago Kickers.
Dir attended college at Western Illinois University, where he majored in broadcasting.
When he graduated in 1980, the Chicago Sting of the North American Soccer League drafted Dir. The Chicago Sting ( 1975 - 1994) was an American professional soccer team based in Chicago Illinois. North American Soccer League (NASL was a professional soccer League with teams in the United States of America (U However, he never played for the team.
In 1990 and 1991, he coached Regis University's NCAA men's soccer team. Regis University is a private co-educational Roman Catholic, Jesuit University in the United States. The National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA, often pronounced "N-C-Double-A" is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions conferences organizations His record was 5-5-2 in 1990 and 9-7-4 in 1991.
The next year, he became the coach of the minor league Colorado Foxes of the American Professional Soccer League. The Colorado Foxes were a professional Soccer team based in Commerce City Colorado, that played in the APSL (later the A-League) between 1990 and 1997 The original A-League (formerly the American Professional Soccer League) was a professional men's Soccer league in North America. In his three seasons with the team, he won the APSL championship twice.
When Major League Soccer (MLS) was preparing for its first season, Dir worked with Sunil Gulati as a scout for the league. Major League Soccer ( MLS) is the top-flight professional Soccer league in the United States and Canada with 14 teams 13 in the U Sunil 'Kumar' Gulati (born July 30 1959, in Allahabad, India) is the current president of the United States Soccer Federation or USSF Later, he became the head coach of Dallas Burn, now FC Dallas, from 1996, the club's inagaural year until the year 2000. FC Dallas is a North American professional soccer team based in Frisco, Texas, United States. Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. He was the longest serving of the original ten head coaches.
In 2000, the club fired Dir and he became a soccer broadcaster with ESPN and Fox Sports. ESPN, originally an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, is an American Cable television network dedicated to See also Fox Sports (Australia and Fox Sports Net. Fox Sports is a division of the Fox Broadcasting Company (part of He also worked with the U-20 men's national team as an assistant coach (goalkeepers).
Has recently been linked to MLS's Real Salt Lake as a candidate for the team's vacant general manager position. Real Salt Lake is an American soccer club that is based in the Salt Lake City Utah suburb of Sandy that began playing in Major League Soccer in
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