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History
of the Rivalry between England and U.S.A
The
United States Men's National Team will face
England for the first time since 1994 at
Soldier Field in Chicago on May 28th and
it will be the only seventh time that the
two teams have met since that first famous
meeting 55 years ago in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Americans
in Europe
Today
it is not unusual to find American soccer players playing
in Europe, something that was quite unusual until around
20 years ago.
The
Man in the Middle
Jim
Kelly, writing in the March 1930 edition of the magazine
Soccer Star, poses the question.
From
Hakoah to Benfica
On
April 17, 1926 when Bela Guttmann sailed into New York
harbor aboard the liner Berengaria, with the famous
Hakoah team of Vienna, he was already a star in Europe.
The
Flying Scotsman
The
following paragraph appears in Partick Thistle Football
Club 1876-2002 The Official History.
The
Newark Cup
Way,
way back in 1885 teams from the United States and Canada
met, in New Jersey.
The
Magic of Mickey
"For
two close seasons now I have written the "This is
Your Life" series.
What
is an International Cap
When
Claudio Reyna made his 100th appearance for the United
States Men's National Team in a full international against
Honduras on June 2, he joined a unique club. The
True Story of Jock Coll & the 1930 World Cup
Take a
look at any history of the World Cup and you will find
the same story. It concerns a man known Jock Coll who
was the trainer of the United States World Cup team in
1930.
Errors
in the U.S. Open Cup
The record
of the winners and losing finalists in the U. S. Open
Cup and Amateur Cup competitions have been widely published
in various books and magazines over the years.
Dick
Kerr Ladies Soccer Tour 1922
Fortunately,
in this day and age, here in North America, women playing
soccer is taken for granted. But how many girls or women,
were playing, or even thinking of playing, 80 years ago? Chedgzoy's
Corner Kick
On
a Saturday afternoon in the spring of 1924 Everton winger
Sam Chedgzoy lined up to take a corner kick on the lush
green grass of London's White Hart Lane Stadium. International
Soccer League
William
D. Cox was a businessman, politician, author and sports
promoter, and in the soccer world will always be known
as the man who conceived the idea of a summer soccer
league in New York involving some of the world's best
known club teams. |
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The
Real Story About the 1950 World Cup Team
Since
the release of the movie 'The Games of Their Lives',
which delightfully portrays the United States World Cup
Team and their 1-0 triumph over England at the 1950 World
Cup, there has been controversy over what really happened
during the much talked about match in Belo Horizonte,
Brazil.
Corrections
to Soccer History
When
the United States team sailed out of Hoboken, New Jersey
in 1930 headed for Montevideo, Uruguay and the first
World Cup, the squad contained six players who were
born in Britain. D-Day
Nearly
every professional sports event in the U.S.A. was canceled
or postponed on June 6, 1944, D-Day, while the nation
held its breath over the fate of the invasion of France. Hall
Needs Your Help
The National
Soccer Hall of Fame is the official historian of the
United States Soccer Federation, and as such we are constantly
searching for more information on the past and trying
to expand our collections.
New
York Footballers' Protective Association
This
association was founded in August 1912, for the purpose
of assisting players injured during the progress of the
games.
What
Happened to Willie
How
does a well known international soccer player disappear
without a trace? That is the question that plagued the
St. Louis soccer community for many years. Where
Did the Term Soccer Come From
The
term "soccer" came into
use in England during the 1880's
by university men from Oxford and
Cambridge.
Johnny
Nelson the Mystery Man
One of
the greatest puzzles facing American soccer historians
these days is who was Johnny Nelson, where did he come
from and where did he disappear to?
Lalas
3rd American to Play in Italy's Serie A
When Alexi
Lalas joined Italian Serie A club Padova at the start
of the 1994-95 season and made his Serie A debut on September
4, 1994 against Sampdoria in Genoa, he was generally
regarded as the first American born player to crack the
top Italian soccer league.
Myth
of British Pros on the 1930 World Cup Team
It's one
of the most enduring myths of World Cup history and it
won't go away. Foreign
Team Tours of the North America: 1905-68
In
the years before and just after World War II, many teams
from Europe and South America criss-crossed North America
by train playing in both the United States and Canada. |
