Editing Troy Perkins (section)

==Personal life==
While being a backup goalkeeper for D.C. United, Perkins also had a second job working at a sporting goods store in Fair Lakes, VA called Galyans (which is currently known as Dick's Sporting Goods). Beginning in 2006, Perkins worked a second job as a mortgage loan processor,<ref>{{cite news
| title=A Goalie You Can Bank On
| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/14/AR2006071401521.html
| accessdate=December 9, 2006
| newspaper=The Washington Post
| first=Dan
| last=Steinberg
| date=July 15, 2006}}</ref> leading United fans to put up a banner that said, "Troy Saves – and Loans."

Perkins has revealed that his return to [[Major League Soccer|MLS]] in 2010 was because his wife was unable to settle in Norway.

Perkins considers that his training as a mortgage loan processor is important and has stated, "Goalies can usually play until they're around 40, so you have to think about a job after retirement," He has an "austere pregame routine, which entails shutting off all electronics and not talking to anyone for 24&nbsp;hours. 'I'm a miserable person to be around,' he says, laughing. 'My wife hates it.'"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://outside.away.com/outside/gear/201005/soccer-style-us-team-world-cup-conor-casey-robbie-findley-heath-pearce.html |title=Kick Started |publisher=Outside Online May 2010 Issue |accessdate=May 2, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100601034248/http://outside.away.com/outside/gear/201005/soccer-style-us-team-world-cup-conor-casey-robbie-findley-heath-pearce.html |archivedate=June 1, 2010 }}</ref>

After retiring from professional soccer and leaving the Sounders organization, Perkins was sworn in as a [[police officer]] in [[Kennewick, Washington]] in January 2017.<ref>{{cite news |last=Stevenson |first=Bill |date=January 23, 2017 |title=Tri-Cities ready to hire 14 more police officers |url=http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/crime/article128344454.html |work=[[Tri-City Herald]] |accessdate=January 25, 2017}}</ref>