Jason Kreis (born December 29, 1972 in Omaha, Nebraska) is a former American soccer forward, and is currently the third highest scorer in Major League Soccer regular-season history. He is the current head coach of Real Salt Lake.
Jason grew up in Mandeville, Louisiana where he led Mandeville High School to several Class 5A state soccer tournaments, yet he never won a state title and lost to Lafayette High in the quarter finals his senior year. Wh...
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Jason Kreis (born December 29, 1972 in Omaha, Nebraska) is a former American soccer forward, and is currently the third highest scorer in Major League Soccer regular-season history. He is the current head coach of Real Salt Lake.
Jason grew up in Mandeville, Louisiana where he led Mandeville High School to several Class 5A state soccer tournaments, yet he never won a state title and lost to Lafayette High in the quarter finals his senior year. While at Mandeville High School, he was also a standout performer for the Baton Rouge United Jags, a U-19 Select team that finished as national runner-up in 1991 and also won the prestigious Capital Cup tournament in Washington, D.C..
After starting every game at Duke University, Kreis played with the now-defunct Raleigh Flyers of the USISL and was drafted 43rd overall by the Dallas Burn (now F.C. Dallas) in the fifth round of the MLS Inaugural Draft. He scored the first goal in Burn history. In 1999, Kreis was the first American-born player to...
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