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{{Short description|American soccer player (born 1959)}}
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{{Infobox football biography
| name = Perry Van der Beck
| image = 
| caption = 
| full_name = 
| birth_date  = {{birth date and age|1959|11|5}}
| birth_place = [[Florissant, Missouri]], United States
| height = {{height|ft=6|in=0}}
| position = [[Midfielder]]
| years1 = 1978–1982 
| years2 = 1979–1984 
| years3 = 1983 
| years4 = 1984 
| years5 = 1984–1987 
| years6 = 1987–1988 
| years7 = 1988–1992 
| years8 = 1989–1993 
| years9 = 1995–1997
| years10= 1997
| clubs1 = [[Tampa Bay Rowdies (1975–93)|Tampa Bay Rowdies]] 
| clubs2 = [[Tampa Bay Rowdies (1975–93)|Tampa Bay Rowdies]] ''(indoor)'' 
| clubs3 = [[Team America (soccer)|Team America]] 
| clubs4 = [[Tampa Bay Rowdies (1975–93)|Tampa Bay Rowdies]] 
| clubs5 = [[Dallas Sidekicks (1984–2004)|Dallas Sidekicks]] ''(indoor)'' 
| clubs6 = [[St. Louis Steamers (1979–88)|St. Louis Steamers]] (''indoor'') 
| clubs7 = [[Wichita Wings]] (''indoor'') 
| clubs8 = [[Tampa Bay Rowdies (1975–93)|Tampa Bay Rowdies]] 
| clubs9 = [[Tampa Bay Terror]] (''indoor'')
| clubs10= [[St. Louis Ambush (1992–2000)|St. Louis Ambush]] (''indoor'') 
| caps1 = 73   
| caps2 = 46
| caps3 = 28   
| caps4 = 24  
| caps5 = 57  
| caps6 = 47   
| caps7 = 173  
| caps8 = 82   
| caps9 = 36
| caps10= 5   
| goals1 = 5  
| goals2 = 20
| goals3 = 1  
| goals4 = 5  
| goals5 = 15  
| goals6 = 7  
| goals7 = 58  
| goals8 = 9  
| goals9 = 6
| goals10= 1 
| totalcaps = 571 | totalgoals = 127
| manageryears1 = 1996–1997 
| manageryears2 = 1998–2001 
| manageryears3 = 2001 
| manageryears4 = 2010
| managerclubs1 = [[Tampa Bay Terror]] 
| managerclubs2 = [[Tampa Bay Mutiny]] ''(assistant)'' 
| managerclubs3 = [[Tampa Bay Mutiny]] 
| managerclubs4 = [[Tampa Bay Rowdies]] ''(interim)''
| nationalyears1 = 1979–1985
| nationalteam1 = [[USMNT|United States]]
| nationalcaps1 = 23  
| nationalgoals1 = 2
}}
'''Perry Van der Beck''' (born November 5, 1959, in [[Florissant, Missouri]]) is an American former [[Association football|soccer]] player, former [[soccer manager|coach]] and technical director, and the former Vice President of Competition and Operations for the [[United Soccer League]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.uslsoccer.com/news_article/show/663492-usl-names-van-der-beck-vp-of-competition-and-operations|title=USL Names van der Beck NOT VP of Competition & Operations|date=June 23, 2016}}</ref>

Van der Beck began his playing career with the [[Tampa Bay Rowdies (1975–93)|Tampa Bay Rowdies]] of the [[North American Soccer League (1968–84)|original North American Soccer League]] and ended it with the [[St. Louis Ambush (1992–2000)|St. Louis Ambush]] of the indoor [[National Professional Soccer League II|National Professional Soccer League]].  He also earned twenty-three [[cap (sports)|caps]], scoring two goals, with the [[United States men's national soccer team|U.S. national team]] between 1979 and 1985. He played for various indoor and outdoor teams until 1998, when he retired from the pitch and became an assistant coach with the [[Tampa Bay Mutiny]].

After coaching for several other clubs and youth soccer organizations, Van der Beck was hired as the technical director and youth director for the new [[Tampa Bay Rowdies]] in 2008. He was later promoted to be the club's executive vice president and director of player development. In January 2014 he was again promoted to the position of general manager. Following the hiring of former teammate [[Farrukh Quraishi]] as president and general manager, Van der Beck returned to his role as the team's technical director.

==NASL==
In 1978, the [[Tampa Bay Rowdies (1975–93)|Tampa Bay Rowdies]] of the [[North American Soccer League (1968–84)|North American Soccer League]] (NASL) drafted Perry Van der Beck out of St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Florissant, Missouri.  At the time he was the youngest native born American playing professional soccer.  He was also the first American ever drafted out of high school.  Despite his youth and relative inexperience when he joined the Rowdies, he gradually worked himself into becoming a significant contributor to the team.  At the time, the Rowdies were a top-tier team in the NASL.  In both [[1978 North American Soccer League season|1978]] and [[1979 North American Soccer League season|1979]], they made it to the [[Soccer Bowl]] championship game.

In 1983, Van der Beck played with [[Team America (soccer)|Team America]] during its dismal single season.  [[United States Soccer Federation|USSF]] wanted to combine all the dominant U.S. players in NASL onto one team to give them an opportunity to develop, as well as to create publicity for the national team.  While the concept attracted the support of Van der Beck and some other U.S. players, it was viewed with suspicion by many others, such as [[Rick Davis]].  Team America went 10–20 and folded after the 1983 season.  Van der Beck then returned to the Rowdies for a single season.

During his time with the Rowdies, the NASL had played both an [[indoor soccer|indoor]] as well as its more well known outdoor seasons.  He was member of the Rowdies' [[1979–80 NASL Indoor season|1979–80]] NASL indoor championship team as well as their [[1981–82 NASL Indoor season|1981–82]] indoor runner-up squad. However, the NASL was at heart an outdoor league and when the [[Major Indoor Soccer League (1978–92)|Major Indoor Soccer League]] (MISL) began operation, it quickly took over the indoor soccer market. By the time Van der Beck had returned to the Rowdies in 1984, the NASL was on its last legs and in 1985, Van Der Beck left the team to follow former Rowdies coach [[Gordon Jago]] to the [[Dallas Sidekicks (1984–2004)|Dallas Sidekicks]] of the MISL.

==MISL==
Van der Beck remained with the Sidekicks for three seasons, capping his time with the team by winning the MISL championship in [[1986–87 Major Indoor Soccer League season|1987]]. On July 4, 1987, the Sidekicks announced they would not renew Van der Beck's contract and he became a free agent.  On August 11, 1987, he signed with the [[St. Louis Steamers (1979–88)|St. Louis Steamers]].  He then moved, sometime later, to the [[Wichita Wings]].

==National Team==
In 1979, Van der Beck played his first game with the U.S. national team.  He would go on to earn 23 [[Cap (sport)|caps]], scoring two goals with the team.  He was an integral part in the U.S. failed attempts to qualify for the 1982 and 1986 FIFA World Cups.

In 1979, he was a member of the U.S. soccer team at the [[Football at the 1979 Pan American Games|1979 Pan American Games]].<ref>[http://www.11v11.com/api/match/235346/teamID/10551/view/extended 1979 Pan American Games: Argentina vs. USA]</ref>
In 1980, he would have been the captain of the U.S. soccer team at the [[1980 Summer Olympics]].  Despite qualifying for the tournament, the U.S. did not send a team to Moscow when President [[Jimmy Carter]] organized a boycott of the games in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

In 1985, Van der Beck was selected the [[U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year]].

Van der Beck served on the US Soccer Board of Directors from 1986 to 1993.

In 2011, Van der Beck was inducted into the St. Louis Soccer Hall of Fame.

Van der Beck has owned and operated the original Camp Kikinthagrass since 2003.

==NPSL==
He served as the player/coach with the [[Tampa Bay Terror]] of the [[National Professional Soccer League II|National Professional Soccer League]] during the 1996–97 season.

==Coaching and front office==
At the end of the 1997 season, he retired from playing and joined the [[Tampa Bay Mutiny]] of [[Major League Soccer]] (MLS) as an assistant coach for the 1998 season. In 2001, he became the head coach of the Mutiny for its last 11 games of the team's existence when then head coach, [[Alfonso Mondelo]] was fired. While assistant coach of the Mutiny, he also coached the Northdale Rangers of the Florida Youth Soccer Association to three State Cups and the 1998 Region III Cup. After MLS shut down the Mutiny at the end of the 2001 season, Van Der Beck replaced [[Peter Vermes]] as the Super Y-League Olympic Development Program National Camp Technical Director.
He also spent one season as a staff coach with the Adidas Elite Soccer Program, which identifies the nation's best high school players and coaches them in weeklong training programs.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://rowdiessoccer.com/index.php?id=52&newsid=6171 |title=News {{!}} Tampa Bay Rowdies |website=rowdiessoccer.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140129234639/http://rowdiessoccer.com/index.php?id=52&newsid=6171 |archive-date=January 29, 2014}}</ref>

=== Tampa Bay Rowdies ===
In June 2008, Van der Beck was hired as the technical director of the expansion [[FC Tampa Bay]] of the [[USL First Division]] . By the time the team took the pitch in 2010, the team switched to the [[USSF Division 2 Professional League]] and Van der Beck had been promoted to executive vice president and director of player development.<ref>[http://www.fctampabay.com/index.php?id=59 Technical Staff - fctampabay.com]</ref> Head coach [[Paul Dalglish]] left the team with 2 games remaining in the regular season, and Van der Beck served as the interim coach until January 2011, when [[Ricky Hill]] was hired as the club's new head coach and Van der Beck returned to his executive position. In January 2014 he was promoted from the position of technical director to the club's general manager.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://rowdiessoccer.com/index.php?id=52&newsid=6171 |title=News {{!}} Tampa Bay Rowdies |website=rowdiessoccer.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140129234639/http://rowdiessoccer.com/index.php?id=52&newsid=6171 |archive-date=January 29, 2014}}</ref> With the November 18, 2014, hiring of Quraishi as team president and general manager, Van der Beck re-assumed the role of technical director.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.rowdiessoccer.com/news/detail/uuid/1i7v8io2j2vlb1kqfw8b1etyox#.VGtyMTTF8ph |title=Rowdies NASL: Rowdies Name Farrukh Quraishi President and General Manager |access-date=January 19, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141121110444/http://www.rowdiessoccer.com/news/detail/uuid/1i7v8io2j2vlb1kqfw8b1etyox#.VGtyMTTF8ph |archive-date=November 21, 2014|url-status=dead }}</ref> In May 2016 Van der Beck resigned as the Tampa Bay Rowdies’ assistant general manager and vice president of community relations.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tampabay.com/sports/soccer/fennelly-longtime-rowdies-a-self-made-owner-and-bruised-feelings/2277689/|title = Fennelly: Longtime Rowdies, a self-made owner and bruised feelings}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/hometeam/assistant-gm-perry-van-der-beck-no-longer-with-rowdies/2276383 |title=Assistant GM Perry Van Der Beck no longer with Rowdies |website=www.tampabay.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160508141558/http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/hometeam/assistant-gm-perry-van-der-beck-no-longer-with-rowdies/2276383 |archive-date=May 8, 2016}}</ref>

===USL vice president===
On June 23, 2016, the [[United Soccer League]] announced that Van der Beck would be the new Vice President of Competition and Operations, replacing David Wagner. In his new role he is responsible for the day-to-day league operations, competition, schedule, discipline and refereeing.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.uslsoccer.com/news_article/show/663492-usl-names-van-der-beck-vp-of-competition-and-operations|title=USL Names van der Beck VP of Competition & Operations|date=June 23, 2016}}</ref>

== References ==
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==External links==
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*[http://nasljerseys.com/Players/V/VanDerBeck.Perry.htm NASL/MISL stats]

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