Hahnemann's caps - a look back

Suffice to say, lot has changed since Marcus Hahnemann was last with the nats.

Hahnemann was 22 and coming off his rookie year playing for the A-League’s Seattle Sounders. He was named the league’s top GK. The fall of 1993, Hahnemann had led Seattle Pacific to the D-II NCAA title.

The coach Was Bora Milutinovic and Steve Sampson was still an assistant.

In the fall of 1994, Hahnemann played in three games with the national team, all starts, 249 minutes - 1-1-1, 0.72 GAA

Here are the game reports of the three games in which he played. I don’t have the opponents’ lineups or goal-scorers. Some of you youngsters or newcomers to US soccer may not even recognize some of the names in these lineups.

Nov. 19, 1994, Port of Spain, Trinidad
US 0, Trinidad & Tobago 1

Marcus Hahnemann, Marcelo Balboa, John Doyle, Jeff Agoos, Lawrence Lozzano (Nelson Vargas), Paul Caligiuri (Zak Ibsen), Mike Burns (Jorge Salcedo), Mike Sorber, Janusz Michallik, Frank Klopas, Jovan Kirovski (Jason Dunn)

Nov. 22, 1994, Kingston Jamaica
US 3, Jamaica 0
US goals: Frank Klopas (2), Jovan Kirovski)

Marcus Hahnemann (Zach Thornton), Marcelo Balboa (Jorge Salcedo), John Doyle, Jeff Agoos, Paul Caligiuri (Zak Ibsen), Mike Burns, Mike Sorber, Janusz Michallik, Lawrence Lozzano, Frank Klopas (Nelson Vargas), Jovan Kirovski (Jason Dunn)

December 11, 1994, Fullerton, California
US 1, Honduras 1
US goal: Kirovski

Marcus Hahnemann, Marcelo Balboa, John Doyle, Jeff Agoos, Paul Caligiuri (Zak Ibsen), Mike Burns (Paul Bravo), Mike Sorber, Janusz Michallik (Lawrence Lozzano), Chris Henderson, Jason Dunn (Nelson Vargas), Jovan Kirovski

 

Guess I'm the only one who thought this was mildly interesting!

 

Zach had just completed - or was towards the end of - his senior season at Loyola (Md.).

That's one of the things that prompted me to start this thread - it's been so long since Marcus last played for the national team that the last time he did so, college kids were still making appearances for the national team. Pretty sure not many other national teamers can make that statement.

 

My favorite from these friendlies is Jason Dunn.

Like Hahnemann, he was on Seattle Pacific's 1993 D-II team as a senior and joined the Seattle Sounders the following summer and was named A-League Rookie of the Year.

After that and the caps he earned, one would think he had a bright future in him but he has spent most of his caeer playing indoors or in the A-League and never got a whiff of MLS not saw the national team again.

One things for sure, you can't say Bora didn't give guys a chance to make an impression!