Ken Fogarty 1990; Coach 1992 - 1993

Ken Fogarty was born January 25th, 1955 in Manchester, England. Ken began his professional career with Stockport County at the age of seventeen. He then moved to the United States to play for the Los Angeles Skyhawks of the second American Soccer League in 1976, the year they won the ASL Championship. He returned to England to play for Stockport County until returning to the U.S. in 1979 to play for the Fort Lauderdale Strikers of the NASL. He remained with the Strikers through the end of the 1983 season. When the Strikers moved north to Minnesota, Ken went with the team for the final NASL season in 1984.

The NASL folded at the end of that season and the Strikers then jumped to the Major Indoor Soccer League. He continued to play with the Strikers until they folded at the end of the 1987-1988 MISL season. However, in 1988, the Fort Lauderdale Strikers were resurrected, this time playing in the second ASL. Ken joined them for the outdoor season, then moved to the Baltimore Blast of MISL for the next three indoor seasons. In 1989, Fogarty left the Strikers for good and joined the Rowdies of the ASL where he served as a player coach from 1989 to 1993. In 1990, the Rowdies joined the American Professional Soccer League. While playing with the Rowdies, Fogarty also served as the team's head coach in 1992 and 1993. In 1993, he was the APSL Coach of the Year.

He was Head Coach and Technical Director of the Cayman Islands national team from 1993-1994 and from 1996-1998.

The Kansas City Wizards of the Major League Soccer signed Ken as an assistant coach in 1999. On April 15th, 1999, the Kansas City Wizards named him as its interim coach after Ron Newman resigned following an 0-4 start. After the team hired Bob Gansler, Ken returned to his position as an assistant coach for the next two seasons.

Today, Ken was the boys Director of Coaching for the Eclipse Soccer Club in Sugar Land, Houston, but is to start a new position as Technical Director at the Dallas Texans Houston, for more details see their website at: http://www.dallastexanshouston.com/index.php