2010 Builder Candidates

The Builder Screening Committee has selected the following individuals for the

2010 Builder Ballot.

Bruce Arena: A successful coach at several levels. Arena won a string of NCAA titles with the University of Virginia and two MLS titles in three seasons with D.C. United, coached the United States in the 1996 Olympics and was coach of the U.S. men’s national team from 1998 to 2006.

Chuck Blazer: An official of various soccer organizations. Blazer was an official of the USSF for several years in the 1980s, 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 Committee of FIFA.

Bob Contiguglia: President of the U.S. Soccer Federation. Contiguglia, who had served from 1990 to 1996 as chairman of the U.S. Youth Soccer Association, was elected to the USSF presidency in 1998 and re-elected to a second four-year term in 2002.

Tony DiCicco: Women’s national team coach from 1994 to 1999. DiCicco coached the women's national team at the 1995 Women's World Cup, the 1996 Olympic Games and the 1999 Women's World Cup. He later was commissioner of the Women's United Soccer Association.

Bob Gansler: U.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 World Cup, and coached Kansas City of MLS and Milwaukee of the A-League to league titles.

Don Garber: The commissioner of Major League Soccer. Garber, a former NFL official, was named MLS commissioner in the summer of 1999, and became one of the leading voices for American soccer.

Francisco Marcos: Longtime leader of the United Soccer Leagues. Marcos, an official of several NASL teams, founded the USL in 1987 as the Southwest Indoor Soccer League and led its growth through a series of phases. He also has been commissioner of the A-League and a vice president of the USSF.

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.

Kevin Payne: An MLS team official. Payne was general manager of D.C. United during its title years in the late 1990s. He later was an executive of Anshutz Entertainment Group, owner of several MLS franchises, and a leader of the group that bought D.C. United from AEG in 2005.

Sigi Schmid: A college and MLS coach.  Schmid coached the Los Angeles Galaxy from 1999 to 2004, the Columbus Crew from 2006 to 2008 and the Seattle Sounders in 2009.  Earlier, he had been coach at UCLA for 19 years, winning three NCAA titles, and an assistant coach of the U.S. team at the 1994 World Cup.  MLS coach of the year in 1999 and 2008.

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