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The United States’ famous victory over England in the 1950 World Cup might not have been possible if it weren’t for the efforts of Peter Matevich. Who? Nobody by that name played that day in Belo Horizonte. In fact, there was no Peter Matevich on the United States roster at …
A lot of what I’ve written about the U.S. men’s national team in this series of posts on historical matters has had to do with high points, like events in 1991 and 1995. It’s time to give a little attention to low points. The United States had a 40-year drought …
At the conclusion of the United States team’s trip to the 1930 World Cup in Uruguay, the manager of the team, Wilfred Cummings, wrote a report to the USFA on the trip. The report is much longer than I have room for here, more than 4,000 words, but here are …
People who saw the 2005 movie Game of Their Lives, since retitled The Miracle Match, are familiar with the fact that shortly before it left for the 1950 World Cup in Brazil, the U.S. national team played a game in New York against a touring English FA team. I have …
The U.S.men’s national team has scored a few famous upsets against major teams over the years, and also a few significant victories that are not as well remembered. Here are four of the latter: United States 1, Poland 0, New Britain, Conn., Aug. 12, 1973: This was the fourth time …
Would the U.S. Soccer Federation ever take the step of asking the Los Angeles Galaxy or the Chicago Fire to take the field in place of the U.S. men’s national team for a few games? Obviously not. A ridiculous idea. But something like that has happened a few times, decades …
The 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, celebrated in the Oscar-winning movie Chariots of Fire, were a landmark event for the U.S. national soccer team. The U.S. nats had begun playing with a series of friendlies, two of them full internationals, in 1916, but it took them a few more years …
What did the U.S. men’s national team do in 1989? That’s an easy one. It’s well known what Paul Caligiuri and his teammates accomplished in Trinidad on Nov. 19, 1989. So what else did the U.S. men’s national team do in 1989? Not as easy. One reason why the events …
The United States played two World Cup qualifying games against Mexico in Mexico City in January 1954. A few weeks before the games, the U.S. Soccer Football Association submitted to the Mexican federation the United States roster for the trip. The Mexican federation rejected it, saying that three players on …
The All-American Football Club
The U.S. national team made its first venture into European competition in 1916, and it’s not surprising where it went. At the time of that trip, there weren’t too many options available. The United States was still a neutral in World War I at that point. So were the Scandinavian …
