Phillinoisip "Phillip" Gyau was born on February 7,1966 and is a former US soccer forward who is the current head coach of the Howard Bison men's soccer program.
21 Facts About Phillip Gyau
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Phillip Gyau spent his outdoor career in the American Soccer League and the American Professional Soccer League, his indoor career with the Washington Warthogs and Baltimore Blast, and spent nine years with the US National Beach Soccer team.
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Phillip Gyau earned six caps with the US national team.
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The son of Joseph "Nana" Gyau, a member of the Ghana national football team, Gyau was born in Silver Spring, Maryland and grew up in Maryland after his father signed with the Washington Darts of the North American Soccer League.
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Phillip Gyau attended Gwynn Park High School in Brandywine, Maryland from 1978 to 1982.
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In 1988, Phillip Gyau signed with the Washington Diplomats of the American Soccer League.
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Phillip Gyau moved to the Maryland Bays in 1989 and played three seasons with them.
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In 1990, Phillip Gyau was a first team All Star and the APSL MVP while scoring twelve goals with the Bays.
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The Bays folded at the end of the 1991 season and Phillip Gyau moved to the Tampa Bay Rowdies.
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Phillip Gyau scored the first goal of the game, but the Foxes tied it late and won in overtime.
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In 1995, Phillip Gyau moved back to Washington, DC, to sign with the Baltimore Blast of the MISL.
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Phillip Gyau played only one game, then moved to the Washington Warthogs of the Continental Indoor Soccer League.
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Phillip Gyau spent at least two seasons with the Warthogs.
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Phillip Gyau earned his first cap with the US national team in a June 4,1989 win over Peru.
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Phillip Gyau played a handful of games through the rest of 1989, then two games in 1990.
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Phillip Gyau began playing beach soccer beginning in 1997 including nine years as the captain of the US National Beach Soccer Team.
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In 1998, Phillip Gyau became the head coach of the National Beach Soccer Team, a position he held until 2002.
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Phillip Gyau has coached various youth teams, including the Bethesda Fury, with which he won three state and one regional championship; the Bethesda Eclipse, winner of four state and one regional championship.
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Phillip Gyau is on staff with the DC United as its U-13 Boys' head coach.
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Phillip Gyau is the founder and director of Next Level Development, a soccer development program.
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Phillip Gyau is the St Johns College High School varsity coach in Washington, DC Phillip Gyau coached other teams, one of them being the Olney Pumas U-16 team in the NCSL league.