Education
Bliss attended Webster Schroeder High School in Webster, New New York After high school, he attended Southern Connecticut State University from 1983 to 1986.
Bliss attended Webster Schroeder High School in Webster, New New York After high school, he attended Southern Connecticut State University from 1983 to 1986.
He also serves as an assistant coach for the United States U-20 national team Bliss played professionally in Europe and the United States, including the original Major Indoor Soccer League, American Soccer League, and American Professional Soccer League. He earned forty-four caps, scoring two goals, with the United States. national soccer team and was part of 1990 squad.
Early career On December 2, 1984, Bliss earned his first cap in a 2–2 tie with Ecuador.
He would not play again until 1987 when he would play two of the three United States. games. That year, the Cleveland Force of the Major Indoor Soccer League drafted Bliss with the top pick.
He would play a single season with the Force in 1987–1988. In 1988, he played in the Summer Olympics.
In 1989, Bliss played five games with the Albany Capitals of the American Soccer League.
However, by that time he was a regular with the national team, playing nearly every game in the team"s qualification campaign for the 1990. He played only one of the team"s three games in that cup, as a substitute in the loss to Austria. In 1990, he was on the roster of the Boston Bolts of the American Professional Soccer League.
European career After the World Cup, Bliss went to Germany to play with Energie Cottbus of the 1990-1991 NOFV-Oberliga.
He later went on to play for Chemnitzer Football Club and then Football Club Carl Zeiss Jena. Major League Soccer As Major League Soccer prepared for its first season, it began a process of equitably distributing known players to each of the league"s teams.
As part of this process, Bliss was allocated to the Columbus Crew. He played a season and a half for Columbus, being traded 12 games into the 1997 season to the MetroStars for A.J. Wood.
Bliss finished the 1997 season with the MetroStars, but was traded by the team to the Kansas City Wizards for a first round college draft pick during the 1998 off-season.
He played only three games of the 1998 season. In 1999, he finished his career with the Connecticut Wolves. International Appearances After retirement, he went on to coach the Connecticut Wolves of the A-League in 1999.
The next year, Gansler selected him again, this time to be the assistant coach for the Wizards.
On July 19, 2006, Gansler stepped down as head coach, allowing Bliss to become interim head coach for Kansas City. In March 2007, Curt Onalfo replaced Bliss as the Wizards head coach, and Bliss joined Kansas Youth Soccer as State Director of He also coached the joint venture squad at Olathe Northwest Highschool where he coached Andy Cockrum who went on to play for Louisiana Masia, which is Football Club Barcelona"s academy team
Bliss served as the technical director of the Columbus Crew for six seasons, helping the Crew earn two Supporters" Shield and one Master of Library Science Cup. He served as interim head coach for part of the 2013 season following the dismissal of Robert Warzycha, but he was not retained as head coach and departed for Chicago following the hiring of Gregg Berhalter.
On September 20, 2015, Bliss was named interim manager of the Chicago Fire, while retaining his technical director duties at the club
Bliss now lives in Chicago and serves as the Technical Director and interim manager for the Chicago Fire.