This is probably the wrong forum, but this guy used to play for the US youth teams. Ive seen people mention him on these boards before for being a player that never lived up to his hype. I saw that he played in the '89 WYC with Keller. Does anyone know anything about this guy?
Great youth player. An @$$hole of a person. Did his knee shortly after the 92 Olympics. Never the same after that. Was the leading scorer for the 23s in the 92 cycle, scoring 12 goals in 9 games during the Pan-Am Games (US won the Gold), qualifying and the Olympics (2 strikes.) Had a personality clash with Lothar and was benched for the first US game, a 2-1 loss to Italy, then scored in the next 2, a win (Kuwait) and a tie (Poland). He was also on Bob Gansler's 89 U20 team that reached the semis of the World Youth Championship. Two years earlier he played for the US at the U16 World Championship (it used to be a U16 event), as the team went 1-2. Despite his success with the youth teams, he only got 2 caps with the senior team: As a sub in 1988 - as a 17-year old - in a friendly against Costa Rica in Texas and as a sub in 1989 against S. Korea in Los Angeles. Given his scoring success with the 23s and the fact that Bora capped basically anyone with a pulse, it's pretty telling that he never got a cap from Bora after Barcelona. Snow played one season at Indiana - where his brother Ken was a 4-year star and multiple All American - and then played professionally in Belgium, where he got hurt. He was only 25 when MLS started but couldn't get much interest. Again, his personality really rubbed people the wrong way. I think he had a tryout with KC in 96 and again in 98 with Chicago but I may be confusing that with his brother.
Here's some old newsgroups posts that mention Snow. http://groups.google.com/groups?q="...207271545.AA17684@BlackHole.hisoft.com&rnum=1 http://groups.google.com/groups?q="...&ie=UTF-8&selm=75839@netnews.upenn.edu&rnum=8 http://groups.google.com/groups?q="...&ie=UTF-8&selm=CzEA53.66J@Virginia.EDU&rnum=3 http://groups.google.com/groups?q="...v12.172741.17781@europa.asd.contel.com&rnum=6
Thanks Sandon, He really must have had some personality issues if he couldn't catch on in '96 when guys like Steve Rammel were scoring goals. Would his career compare similarly, aside from the personality problems, to Mike Slivinski ,the guy who played for DC United a couple of years ago who IIRC was capped when he was 16 but then blew out his knee?
I never heard of Mike Slivinski until he played for DCU. I have a feeling that he was capped by Bora because the US U-17 team have a strong run at World Cup U-17. The US U-17 team did a very good job in 1991. It beat Argentina and Italy. Argentina featured Juan Sebastián Veron. Italy got Del Piero. Bora was probably looking at the new kids. On the same game Silvinski got his first senior cap, Nelson Vargas and Mark Jones also earned their senior caps. Silvinski got the honor because he was younger than his teammates by a few months. Ironically, I do remember Nelson Vargas at 16. Steve Snow, as I remembered in 1992, was the poster boy for the Olympic team. That Olympic team won the Gold medal at the Pan Am Game. It also stormed past the Olympic Qualifiers. The US team was considered to be the dark horse. I followed this team closely(but never actually saw them in action). I admitted that Snow, Washington, Freidel, Jones and Keller were the only names I knew back then. The rest of the team included Reyna, Joe Max, and Lalas. Basicallly, the backbone of the USMNT in the 1990`s came from this team. Steve Snow was known as the one who was ready for the senior team.
Thanks for digging this stuff up. Did anyone notice this question in one of the posts - "And also who is Dan O'Brien (Ajax junior)?" Apparently there wasn't enough hype surrounding JOB at the time for people to know who he was.