Grover Gibson

Grover Gibson is an American soccer player who last played for Rot-Weiss Ahlen in the 2. Bundesliga until retiring due to injury in August 2009.
In 2012, Gibson established the Grover Gibson Soccer Foundation, which is a non-profit corporation, where he founded Fredericksburg FC and is currently head coach.

Club career

Born in Fairfax, Virginia, after graduating from high school, Gibson signed with VfB Stuttgart U-18. He went on to play two years for VfB Stuttgart reserves. After that he played for third-tier sides FC Augsburg and SV Elversberg before signing with 1. [FSV Mainz 05] in the 2. Bundesliga at the age of 21. Later he played again in the third tier for SSV [Jahn Regensburg], SC Preußen Münster, Kickers Emden. His last club was Rot-Weiss Ahlen in the 2. Bundesliga where he played 30 matches and scored six goals.
His professional career ending after fracturing the eye socket which also damaged the retina and optic nerve.
Gibson previously played four matches in the 2. Bundesliga for 1. FSV [Mainz 05].

Following the creation of the Grover Gibson Soccer Foundation, a non-profit corporation promoting soccer, Gibson founded RVA FC, as a youth soccer organization in Richmond, Virginia, with the senior men's team to compete in the amateur National Premier Soccer League, considered the fourth tier of the American soccer pyramid. Gibson would coach the club in its inaugural season, leading them to a first-place finish in the Mid-Atlantic Division and all the way to the NPSL Championship game against the Sonoma County Sol.

Gibson resides currently in Fredericksburg, Virginia with his wife and three children.