Following the hiring of former teammate Farrukh Quraishi as president and general manager, Van der Beck returned to his role as the team's technical director.
In 1978, the Tampa Bay Rowdies of the North American Soccer League (NASL) drafted Perry Van der Beck out of St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Florissant, Missouri.
While the concept attracted the support of Van der Beck and some other U.S. players, it was viewed with suspicion by many others, such as Rick Davis.
Van der Beck remained with the Sidekicks for three seasons, capping his time with the team by winning the MISL championship in 1987.
Despite qualifying for the tournament, the U.S. did not send a team to Moscow when President Jimmy Carter organized a boycott of the games in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
After MLS shut down the Mutiny at the end of the 2001 season, Van Der Beck replaced Peter Vermes as the Super Y-League Olympic Development Program National Camp Technical Director.
[3] In June 2008, Van der Beck was hired as the technical director of the expansion FC Tampa Bay of the USL First Division .
[5] With the November 18, 2014, hiring of Quraishi as team president and general manager, Van der Beck re-assumed the role of technical director.
[6] In May 2016 Van der Beck resigned as the Tampa Bay Rowdies’ assistant general manager and vice president of community relations.
[7][8] On June 23, 2016, the United Soccer League announced that Van der Beck would be the new Vice President of Competition and Operations, replacing David Wagner.