Cobi Jones

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Cobi Jones
Personal information
Full name	Cobi N'Gai Jones
Date of birth	June 16, 1970 (age 36)
Place of birth	Detroit, MI, United States
Height	5'7
Position	midfielder
Club information
Current club	Los Angeles Galaxy
Number	13
Youth clubs
1988-91	UCLA
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (goals)
1994-95 1996 1996–	Coventry City Vasco da Gama Los Angeles Galaxy	21 (2) ? (?) 281 (66)
National team**
1992-2004	United States	164 (15)
* Professional club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 3 December, 2006. ** National team caps and goals correct as of 3 December, 2006.

Cobi Jones (born June 16, 1970 in Detroit, Michigan) is one of the most recognizable and successful American soccer players of all-time.

Jones is currently the all-time leader of the United States national team in appearances, with 164 caps as of end of 2004 (scoring 15 goals), and played for the team in the 1994, 1998, and 2002 FIFA World Cups. He also represented his country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.

Jones currently plays for the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer, with whom he has been since their inaugural season in 1996. He was one of a significant group of American national team stars who returned from overseas to aid the new American soccer league, coming home after playing half a season at Brazilian club Vasco da Gama. Before joining them, Jones played one season with Coventry City of the English Premier League, and had trained with FC Köln of the Bundesliga. Jones emerged as a talented player in college, making the prestigious UCLA soccer team as a non-scholarship player, but becoming one of its most successful soccer-playing graduates.

Jones' best year with the Galaxy came in 1998, when he was second in the league in points (51 on 19 goals and 13 assists), was named to the MLS Best XI, and was also named U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year. In 2005, he became the last player in MLS to remain with his original team since 1996. In nine years in the league, Jones totaled 62 goals and 82 assists in the regular season, plus six goals and eleven assists in the playoffs. As of the end of the 2005 season, he is the Galaxy's all-time leader in games (254), goals and points.

Cobi Jones has scored three goals in the 2006 campaign for the Galaxy (as of 11 July), including a crucial game-tying goal late in the game against MLS leader D.C. United. At the close of the season, he was awarded the Player of the Year Award by Galaxy supporter's group the LA Riot Squad.

[edit] See also

• List of current MLS players

Persondata
NAME	Jones, Cobi N'Gai
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Professional soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH	June 16, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH	Detroit, Michigan
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH

	United States squad - 1994 World Cup
1 Meola | 2 Lapper | 3 Burns | 4 Kooiman | 5 Dooley | 6 Harkes | 7 Perez | 8 Stewart | 9 Ramos | 10 Wegerle | 11 Wynalda | 12 Sommer | 13 Jones | 14 Klopas | 15 Moore | 16 Sorber | 17 Balboa | 18 Friedel | 19 Reyna | 20 Caligiuri | 21 Clavijo | 22 Lalas | Coach: Milutinović

	United States squad - 1998 FIFA World Cup
1 Friedel | 2 Hejduk | 3 Pope | 4 Burns | 5 Dooley | 6 Regis | 7 Wegerle | 8 Stewart | 9 Moore | 10 Ramos | 11 Wynalda | 12 Agoos | 13 Jones | 14 Preki | 15 Deering | 16 Sommer | 17 Balboa | 18 Keller | 19 Maisonneuve | 20 McBride | 21 Reyna | 22 Lalas | Coach: Sampson

	United States squad - 2002 FIFA World Cup Quarter-finalists
1 Friedel | 2 Hejduk | 3 Berhalter | 4 Mastroeni | 5 O'Brien | 6 Regis | 7 Lewis | 8 Stewart | 9 Moore | 10 Reyna | 11 Mathis | 12 Agoos | 13 Jones | 14 Cherundolo | 15 Wolff | 16 Llamosa | 17 Beasley | 18 Keller | 19 Meola | 20 McBride | 21 Donovan | 22 Sanneh | 23 Pope | Coach: Arena

Los Angeles Galaxy - Current Squad
1 Cronin | 3 Miglioranzi | 4 Jazic | 5 Albright | 6 Gardner | 8 Vagenas | 9 Gonzalez | 10 Donovan | 11 Glinton | 12 Roberts | 13 Jones | 14 Marshall | 16 Veris | 18 Martino | 21 Gordon | 22 Hartman | 23 Kirk | 24 Sturgis | 25 Quaranta | 26 Glen | 28 Hansen | 31 Saunders | – Cannon | – Jaqua | – Randolph | Coach: Yallop