Thomas Rongen has packed a lot of soccer into his 67 years. He played for 11 teams and coached for a dozen more. He was there for the end of the NASL, the start of MLS and birth of Chivas USA.

Having spent more than 50 years around the game of soccer — a time that included a short spell as head coach of the Revolution — Thomas Rongen has no doubt in his mind what his “most joyous ...

Dutch-American soccer coach Thomas Rongen has officially been announced as the new head coach of the American Samoa national team as they prepare for the Oceania Qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup.

Everyone lives under the constraint of 24-hour days. Except, it seems, Thomas Rongen. When he picked up the phone Saturday at his soccer store, he told the caller the store closed at 6 p.m.

Thomas Rongen is played by Michael Fassbender in the film Next Goal Wins about his experience coaching the American Samoa soccer team. He talked with FanSided about the team and seeing his life ...

So yes, Thomas Rongen did find American Samoa, but he also found something else: himself. The experience reminded him why he got into soccer as boy, because nothing says love of the game more than ...

Thomas Rongen, a former Sewall's Point resident, will be featured in 'Next Goal Wins,' a movie about coaching the American Samoa national soccer team.

Jaiyah Saelua formed a close bond with coach Thomas Rongen ... Nicky Salapu was the goalkeeper of the brutal 31-0 drubbing and has quit soccer. Ten years later, Rongen and Jaiyuh track him down to ...

Odds were, Thomas Rongen was going to be on the job for only a month. Then again, with a little luck — make that a lot of luck — he might have been able to extend his stay as coach of the ...

Rongen remained in the US, playing in the NASL until it folded following the 1984 season, then continuing on for another decade, mostly in Florida, while beginning his coaching career.

obviously, I've coached there for six years -- and I have very good knowledge of the Mexican league, which is a league just south of our border that we see on television, on Univision and ...