Career
Dooley is the current head coach of the Philippines national team Dooley, born to a German mother and a Army father, started his professional career in 1984 with third division club Prior to that, he had played as a forward with amateur team FK Pirmasens.
He moved to midfield with Homburg and helped the team move steadily up the German leagues, until they finally reached the Bundesliga.
He moved to Kaiserslautern in 1988 and helped them to the German Cup in 1990 and the Bundesliga title in 1991. At the end of the season, he made his move to Major League Soccer (Master of Library Science), signing with the Columbus Crew.
Dooley would spend three seasons in Columbus, and was named to the Master of Library Science Best XI in both 1997 and 1998. In 2000, Thomas was traded to the MetroStars for Mike Duhaney, partially to help support Lothar Matthäus" adjustment to the United States.
Dooley played one year for the Metros before retiring from soccer altogether.
On February 21, 1999, Dooley was given a send-off match by the United States in a friendly against Chile. He would end his international career with 81 caps and seven goals. After retiring, Dooley went back to Germany and became the head coach of Football Club Saarbrücken in 2002 and 2003.
Dooley was appointed by United States national team coach Jürgen Klinsmann to be an assistant coach in the match against Mexico on August 10, 2011.
Philippines In February 2014, Dooley signed a one-year deal with the Philippine Football Federation to handle the Philippines national team His first match was a friendly against Malaysia which ended 0–0, and a few days later, narrowly lost to European side Azerbaijan 1–0.
Dooley earned national team manager Dan Palami"s praise after his first few matches in charge. Palami commended Dooley"s ability to foster a better understanding of the game to his squad and give subs and reserves chances to step up in the absence of star players."Our players have a better understanding of the role they have to play in their respective positions under Dooley"s system that anyone can step up even if we don"t have our stars playing," Palami said.
In his first match coaching the Philippines in a Fédération internationale de football association World Cup qualifier, his team defeated Bahrain 2-1.
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