World Cup Player at a Glance

Name: Cobi Jones.

* Birth date: June 10, 1970, Detroit.

* Height: 5-feet-7.

* Weight: 145 pounds.

* Position: Midfielder/Forward.

* National team debut: Sept. 3, 1992, vs. Canada.

* Caps (international matches): 49.

* Goals scored: 5.

* Little-known fact: His mother was watching a made-for-television movie when she was pregnant with him and decided to name him after one of the characters. “I don’t remember the name of the movie,” Mada Jones said. “He was the cutest little boy and was so smart on the show. I thought, ‘If I have a boy, that’s his name.’ ” In school, Jones said the kids called him Obi-Wan Kenobi after the Alec Guinness character from “Star Wars.”

* Honors: Played with gold-medal winning U.S. team at the Pan American Games in 1991. Second-team National Soccer Coaches Assn. of America All-American in 1991. All-Far West in 1989-91.