San Jose’s Frank Yallop MLS Coach of the Year

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Posted November 27, 2012 3:27 pm.

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NEW YORK, NY (NEWS1130) – San Jose Earthquakes coach Frank Yallop has been named the 2012 MLS Coach of the Year. The England native, who grew up in Vancouver led the Earthquakes to a league-best 19-6-9 record, just a year after the team’s 14th overall finish in 2011.

The 48-year-old Yallop, led the Earthquakes to a 66 point season, just two behind the league record of 98, set by the LA Galaxy in 1998. Yallop, who ending his long playing career with the MLS’ Tampa Bay Mutiny in the late ’90s, left his position as San Jose head coach in 2004 to coach Canada’s national mens team. He would return to MLS in 2006 as coach in Los Angeles.

In 2005, Yallop was inducted to the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame.

Yallop finished ahead of D.C. United coach Ben Olsen and Sporting Kansas City coach Peter Vermes in the final voting. Yallop also won the award in 2001, also as coach of the Earthquakes.

In other soccer news, former Vancouver Whitecaps assistant coach Colin Miller was introduced in Edmonton today as Coach of FC Edmonton of the North American Soccer League. Miller, 48 replaces Harry Sinkgraven who led the Eddies to a terrible 2012 season, finishing last in the NASL.

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