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Nat Agar
A leading team owner in the
original ASL Agar, who had been among the founders of the U.S.
Football Association, was owner and coach of the Brooklyn
Wanderers, and also coached the U.S. national team several times
in the 1920’s.
Esse Baharmast
One of the leading American
referees in the 1990’s. Baharmast was Major League Soccer's top
referee in its early seasons and a FIFA international referee
from 1993 to 1998, including the
1998 FIFA World Cup.
He later became a USSF official.
John Best
Coach and administrator with
several
North American Soccer League
teams. Best was coach of the Seattle Sounders from 1974 to 1976,
and later general manager and president of the Vancouver
Whitecaps.
Chuck Blazer
An official of the USSF, the
third ASL and CONCACAF. Blazer was an official of the USSF for
several years in the 1980’s, a co-founder of the third ASL in
1988 and became secretary of CONCACAF in 1991. In 1996, he was
named to a place on the Executive Board of FIFA.
Gene Chyzowych
U.S. Men's National Team Coach
and American Soccer League official. Chyzowych, later a
legendary high school coach, served as president of the ASL for
several years in the early 1970’s and coached the U.S. National
Team in 1973.
William Cox
A professional league and team
official. Cox was founder and president of the International
Soccer League, which brought leading foreign teams to New York
for six years in the 1960’s, and president of the
North American Soccer League's
San Diego Toros.
Charles
Creighton
A leading American referee in
the decades before World War II. Creighton was one of the most
prominent referees in the original American Soccer League and
refereed the
U.S. Open Cup
final in 1914, 1918, 1927 and 1931.
Thomas
Cunningham
One of the most prominent
referees of the original American Soccer League. Creighton
refereed the
U.S. Open Cup
final in 1926 and numerous games involving touring foreign
teams.
Walter Daggett
Founder of the Seattle Sounders
of the
North American Soccer League.
Daggett was managing general partner of the Sounders from 1974
to 1979 and a director of the team in 1980 and 1981.
Jack Daley
One of the longest-serving
North American Soccer League
team officials. Between 1971 and
1984, Daley was general manager of the Toronto Metros, president
of the Seattle Sounders and president of the San Diego Sockers.
Pat Dinolfo
One of the founders of the
Rochester Lancers of the
North American Soccer League.
Dinolfo served as president of the Rochester team from 1970 to
1981.
Gino D'Ippolito
A referee in the
North American Soccer League
and international games. D'Ippolito was an NASL referee from
1973 to 1984 and an international referee from 1976 to 1985. He
also refereed for many years in the MISL.
Anson Dorrance
The most prominent coach of
women’s soccer, Dorrance was coach of the U.S. Women’s National
Team from 1986 to 1994, including its victory in the first
1991 FIFA Women's World Cup
and has been the
coach of the University of North Carolina women’s team since
1979. The Tar Heels have won 18 of the 24 national
championships which have been decided in the history of
collegiate women’s soccer.
Eddie Firmani
Coach who won
North American Soccer League
titles with two teams, the Rowdies
in 1975 and the Cosmos in 1977. Firmani was coach of the
Tampa Bay Rowdies from 1975 to 1977, the New York Cosmos from
1977 to 1979, the Philadelphia Fury in 1980 and the Montreal
Manic in 1981 and 1982.
Sam Galin
An American Soccer League and
international referee. Galin refereed at the first North
American Championships in 1947, and the U.S. Open Cup final in
1945, 1946, 1949, 1950 and 1953.
Bob Gansler
U.S. Men's National Team Coach
and a prominent club coach. Gansler was coach of the U.S. Men's
National Team from 1989 to 1991, including the
1990 FIFA World Cup, and coached Kansas City of
Major
League Soccer
and Milwaukee of the A-League to league titles.
Leo Goldstein
An American Soccer League and
international referee. Goldstein was one of the ASL's top
referees in the 1950’s and '60s. He was a FIFA international
referee from 1961 to 1967.
Burton Haimes
A current member of the Executive Committee of the United States
Soccer Federation and a member of its Board of Directors since
1988. Haimes has been the Chairman of the USSF Rules Committee,
the Women’s Professional Development Committee (in charge of
launching the
Women's United Soccer Association
and the Men’s Professional Development Committee. He is a past
President and current Chairman of the Board of the American
Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO).
Brian Hall
An
Major
League Soccer
and international referee. Hall became a FIFA international
referee in 1992 and refereed several games at the
2002 FIFA World Cup. He refereed numerous major national
games in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s.
Gordon Jago
The coach of two
North American Soccer League
teams. Jago coached the Baltimore
Bays in 1968 and 1969, and the Tampa Bay Rowdies from 1978 to
1982. He was coach of the U.S. national team in 1969 and later a
leading figure in professional indoor soccer.
Toros Kibritjian
An
North American Soccer League
and international referee.
Kibritjian was an NASL referee throughout the league's
existence, from 1968 to 1984, and a FIFA international referee
from 1968 to 1983.
Tom Kutis
Owner of one of the most famous
teams in American soccer history. Kutis owned the Kutis SC team
of St. Louis, which won the U.S. Open Cup in 1957 and the
National Amateur Cup in six consecutive seasons, 1956 to 1961.
Henry Landauer
An
North American Soccer League
and international referee. Landauer
was an NASL referee from 1968 to 1979 and a FIFA international
referee from 1964 to 1979. In 1970, he became the first American
ever to referee a game at the
FIFA World Cup
finals.
Frank Longo
An official of the U.S. Soccer
Federation. Longo, a former college soccer coach, was chief of
staff of the USSF headquarters for several years in the 1990’s,
and was Chairman of the Hall of Fame's Veterans Committee.
Francisco
Marcos
Longtime leader of the United
Soccer Leagues organization. Marcos, who had been an official of
several
North American Soccer League
teams, founded the USL in 1987 as
the Southwest Indoor Soccer League and led its growth through a
series of phases. He also served as commissioner of the A-League
and a vice president of the USSF.
Sam Mark
The owner of the Fall River
Marksmen of the original American Soccer League, that league's
outstanding team. Mark, who bought the team in 1922, built
Mark's Stadium in Tiverton, R.I., the leading American soccer
stadium of its day.
Fritz Marth
Longtime executive director of
the U.S. Amateur Soccer Association. Marth was leader of that
organization from 1981 to 2002, including the years when it
conducted the U.S. Open Cup along with its other tournaments.
Vince Mauro
An
North American Soccer League
and international referee. Mauro was
a NASL referee from 1982 to 1984. After serving as a FIFA
international referee from 1985 to 1991, including refereeing at
the
1990 FIFA World Cup, he later was the U.S. Soccer
Federation's director of officials.
James McFarlane
A leading pre-World War II
referee. McFarlane was one of the top referees in the American
Soccer League, and refereed the
U.S. Open Cup
final in 1929, 1932 and 1935.
Bill McNutt
A co-founder of the Dallas
Tornado of the
North American Soccer League.
McNutt was a president of that team from 1968 to 1973 and a
director from 1974 to 1981, and well as a director of the Tampa
Bay Rowdies in 1982 and 1983.
Thom
Meredith
An
North American Soccer League,
USSF and
Women's United Soccer Association
official. Meredith, who was
publicity director for several
North American Soccer League
teams, became the USSF director of
communications in the 1980s. He was the USSF director of events
for most of the 1990’s and became a vice president of the WUSA
when that league was formed in 2001.
Lothar
Osiander
A U.S. Men's National Team, U.S.
Olympic Team and
Major League Soccer
coach. Osiander, coach of the
national team from 1986 to 1989, coached the U.S. teams in the
1988 and 1992 Olympic Games, and the Los Angeles Galaxy and
Tampa Bay Mutiny in the MLS.
Harry Rogers
A longtime prominent American
referee. Rogers, one of the leading referees of the American
Soccer League and college soccer in the mid-20th century,
continued refereeing for many years.
Charlie Schiano
A founder of the Rochester
Lancers of the
North American Soccer League.
Schiano was chairman of the board of that team in the NASL from
1970 to 1981. Earlier, he had been president of the American
Soccer League.
David Socha
An
North American Soccer League
and international referee, Socha was
an NASL referee from 1978 to 1984 and a FIFA international
referee from 1977 to 1986, including refereeing in the
1982
and
1986 FIFA World Cups.
Peter Strasser
Owner of one of the nation's
best teams in the 1940’s. Strasser, a jeweler, owned the Morgan
Strasser team of Morgan, Pa., a leading team in the Keystone
League of western Pennsylvania and winner of the U.S. Open Cup
in 1949.
George Strawbridge
The founder of the Tampa Bay
Rowdies of the
North American Soccer League.
Strawbridge was owner and president of one of the NASL's leading
teams from 1975 to 1983.
Keith Walker
An administrator with both the
North American Soccer League
and the U.S. Soccer Federation. Walker was the NASL director of
officials from 1979 to 1982 and secretary of the USSF from
1987 to 1990.
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