Steve Wegerle, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Association footballer
Date of Birth: 15-May-1953
Place of Birth: Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
Profession: association football player
Nationality: South Africa
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Steve Wegerle
- Steve Wegerle (born 15 May 1953) is a former professional soccer player who played as a winger. Wegerle was born in Pretoria.
- He was voted Player of the Year is South Africa in 1974.
- He then joined Coventry City in 1975, but made no first team appearances.
- Wegerle played 5 times for Feyenoord Rotterdam in 1975–76, before starring for the Tampa Bay Rowdies of the North American Soccer League for five seasons from 1977 to 1981.
- While with the Rowdies, Wegerle played in Soccer Bowl '78 and Soccer Bowl '79 (both defeats), as well as the 1979–80 NASL indoor finals, which Tampa Bay won.
- He joined the New York Cosmos during the 1981 season at age 28.
- He played in Soccer Bowl '81 and '82 with the Cosmos, winning the latter.
- Wegerle played 1983 with the Fort Lauderdale Strikers before returning in 1984 to finish his NASL career with the Rowdies.
- Wegerle's 152 points in 196 career games ranks him as the league's 27th all-time leading scoring.
- His 88 assists rank him 4th in that category. Wegerle played for the Rowdies during the 1986–1987 American Indoor Soccer Association season.
- He later played for the team in the American Soccer League in 1988 and 1989 and then in the American Professional Soccer League in 1990.Wegerle is the father of Bryce Wegerle.
- His brother Roy Wegerle is a former American international and MLS star, while his brother Geoff Wegerle played in the NASL for the 1978 season with Oakland and 1983 with Toronto.
- Steve and Roy were on the Rowdies together in 1984.
- Steve and Geoff played together on the post-NASL Rowdies from 1986 to 1988.
- Steve's mother is Scottish and his father is German.
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