About Dave Lange
Dave Lange has covered soccer for various media outlets since the 1970s. His stories have appeared in daily newspapers such as The St. Louis Globe-Democrat and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; magazines such as Soccer America and The Sporting News; and websites such as MLSsoccer.com.
He wrote or co-authored “Practice Makes Perfect: A Guide to Fun Training Sessions for 6–10 Year Olds,” “Cherishing Childhood, the First 100 Years of Community School,” “Webster University: A Century of Defining Moments” and “Taming Troubled Waters: Dr. Henry Givens Jr. and the Transformation of Harris-Stowe State University,” all from Reedy Press.
He contributed a chapter to “Soccer Frontiers: The Global Game in the United States, 1863-1913” (University of Tennessee Press, 2021). Lange was a head coach for 12 years at Busch Soccer Club/St. Louis Soccer Club and holds a USSF National D coaching license and a coaching certificate from the Royal Dutch Football Association.
He retired from Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc., where his responsibilities including producing the annual report, managing employee communications at the company’s U.S. facilities, and starting the “Cardinals Magazine,” a monthly commercial publication for the St. Louis Cardinals. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in communications as Senior Lecturer at the University of Missouri–St. Louis and Adjunct Full Professor at Webster University.