Mike Burns (Last year of eligibility – 2012)
(Last played professionally outside the United States in 1995; last played in the U.S. national team in 1998; last played in MLS in 2002).
Has met the Hall of Fame eligibility criteria via his U.S. national team caps.
A defender who starred in both the U.S. national team and MLS.
Burns’ 75 full internationals for the United States included two games at the 1998 World Cup and 11 games in World Cup qualifying in 1996 and 1997. He also was a member of the United States squad at the 1994 World Cup, although he did not play any games, and at the 1992 Olympic Games.
Burns played seven seasons in Major League Soccer between 1996 and 2002, for New England, San Jose and Kansas City, appearing in 169 MLS regular-season games and six MLS playoff games. He also played one season in the Danish first division.
Mauricio Cienfuegos (2013)
(Last played in MLS in 2003).
Has met the Hall of Fame eligibility criteria via his MLS seasons.
A Salvadoran midfielder who was one of the leading foreign players in the early years of Major League Soccer, starring for the Los Angeles Galaxy.
Cienfuegos, renowned for his playmaking skills, also was a star of the Salvadoran national team throughout the 1990s, and first came to the attention of American soccer officials through his play in World Cup qualifying games against the United States. He played for the Galaxy in the first eight seasons of MLS and won three major titles with them, the U.S. Open Cup in 2001, the CONCACAF Champions Cup in 2001 and the MLS championship in 2002. In addition, he played for Los Angeles in three other MLS finals, in 1996, 1999 and 2001, and scored one of the Galaxy's goals against D.C. United in the first MLS final.
Cienfuegos was chosen as an MLS all-star three times, in 1996, 1998 and 1999. He played in 206 MLS regular season games and 35 MLS playoff games.
Raul Diaz Arce (2014)
(Last played in MLS in 2001; last played in the A-League in 2004).
Has met the Hall of Fame eligibility criteria via his MLS seasons.
A Salvadoran forward who starred for several teams and won several championships in Major League Soccer.
Diaz Arce’s greatest fame fame came with D.C. United, which he joined at the start of MLS’ first season after having established an reputation via his play in El Salvador’s national team. He was one of the stars of the D.C.United team that won the first two MLS championships, and scored 46 goals in those two years.
Later in his six-season MLS career, he played for the New England Revolution, the San Jose Earthquakes, the Tampa Bay Mutiny and the Colorado Rapids, finishing his MLS career with a total of 150 MLS regular-season games and 12 MLS playoff games. He scored 90 goals in those 162 games. In addition to the 1996 and 1997 MLS titles, he also won the U.S. Open Cup in 1996, and played two seasons in the A-League.
Thomas Dooley (2010)
(Last played professionally outside the United States in 1997; last played in the U.S. national team in 1999; last played in MLS in 2000).
Has met the Hall of Fame eligibility criteria via his U.S. national team caps.
One of the best of the U.S. national team players in the 1990s who had been raised in Europe but were dual citizens and eligible to play for the United States because one of their parents was American.
Dooley, who had lived his entire life in Germany and won a German first-division championship in 1991 with Kaiserslautern, made his debut for the U.S. national team in 1991 against Ireland. He eventually played 81 games for the United States before retiring from the national team in 1999. He was a regular for the United States in both the 1994 and 1998 World Cups, and was captain of the United States team in the 1998 World Cup in France. His seven goals for the United States included two against Germany in one game in 1993. He played seven games in two World Cups for the United States, and 12 World Cup qualifiers.
In additional to 11 professional seasons in Germany, Dooley played four seasons in MLS for Columbus and the MetroStars. He appeared in 83 MLS regular-season games and 12 MS playoff games, and was named an MLS all-star in 1998.
Dooley won the Honda Award as the outstanding national-team player in 1992 and the USSF men’s athlete of the year award in 1993. He was nominally a defensive player, sometimes a sweeper and sometimes a deep-lying midfielder, but came frequently up into attack and became involved in scoring plays.
John Doyle (2010)
(Last played professionally outside the United States in 1993; last played in the U.S. national team in 1994; last played in the APSL/A-League in 1995; last played in MLS in 2000).
Has met the Hall of Fame eligibility criteria via both his MLS seasons and his U.S. national team caps.
A defender who was a member of the United States teams at the 1988 Olympic Games and the 1990 World Cup and was a national-team mainstay in the early 1990s.
Doyle made his debut in the national team against Canada in 1987 and eventually played 53 full internationals for the United States, including four World Cup qualifiers in 1988 and 1989 and two World Cup games in 1990. He had only four national-team goals in those games, but one of them was the first goal in the United States' 2-0 upset of Mexico in a 1991 CONCACAF Gold Cup semifinal.
Doyle, a tall, strong defender, was a key man in the stiffening of the United States defense for its game against Italy in the 1990s World Cup, and also played in the landmark victory over Trinidad in 1989.
Doyle played most of his professional career in northern California, for the San Francisco Bay Blackhawks of the A-League and the San Jose Clash of MLS, although he also played one season in the Swedish first division and one in the German first division. During his five MLS seasons, he played 132 MLS regular-season games and three MLS playoff games. He was an MLS all-star and the MLS defender of the year in 1996.
In 2009, he completed his second season as general manager of the San Jose Earthquakes in MLS.
Marco Etcheverry (2014)
(Last played in MLS in 2003; last played at the required level outside the United States in 2004).
Has met the Hall of Fame eligibility criteria via his MLS seasons.
A Bolivian midfielder who was a key member of D.C. United’s dynasty of the first MLS seasons.
Etcheverry, known for the pinpoint passes that made him one of MLS’ premier playmakers, played eight seasons in MLS between 1996 and 2003, all of them for D.C. Before joining MLS, he had been a star of the Bolivian national team, including playing in the 1994 World Cup, and he played briefly in Bolivia after retiring from MLS.
Etcheverry won three MLS championships with D.C. United, in 1996, 1997 and 1999, as well as a U.S. Open Cup championship in 1996 and a CONCACAF Champions Cup title in 1998. He was chosen as an MLS all-star in each of the league’s first four seasons, and was named the MLS most valuable player in 1998. Etcheverry played 191 MLS regular-season games and 23 MLS playoff games.
Robin Fraser (2015)
(Last played in the A-League in 1995; last played in the U.S. national team in 2000; last played in MLS in 2005).
Has met the Hall of Fame eligibility criteria via both his MLS seasons and his U.S. national team caps.
A defender who was chosen to Major League Soccer’ postseason all-star team five times in his 10 MLS seasons.
Fraser played in MLS from 1996 to 2005, for Los Angeles, Colorado and Columbus, including Los Angeles’ MLS runnerup teams in 1996 and 1999. He was named to the MLS Best XI in 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2004 and was the MLS defender of the year twice, in 1999 and 2004. During his MLS career, he played 260 regular-season games and 30 playoff games.
Fraser played 26 full internationals for the United States, the first against Chile in June 1988 and the last against Ecuador in June 2001, including one World Cup qualifying game in 2000. He was a member of the U.S. team at the 1999 Confederations Cup. In addition to his MLS seasons, he also played five seasons in the American Professional Soccer League and A-League.
Chris Henderson (2016)
(Last played in the WSL in 1989; last played professionally outside the United States in 1995; last played in the U.S. national team in 2001; last played in MLS in 2006).
Has met the Hall of Fame eligibility criteria via his U.S. national team caps.
A midfielder and forward who was a regular for the United States in the early 1990s and then had a long career in Major League Soccer.
Henderson’s 79 caps for the United States included two World Cup qualifiers in 1997 and one in 2001. He was a member of the United States team at the 1990 World Cup, when he was only 19. He didn’t play in that World Cup, but a year later, he played every minute of all five U.S. games as the United States who its first major international championship at the CONCACAF Gold Cup.
Henderson played 11 seasons in MLS, for Colorado, Kansas City, Miami, Columbus and New York. He won an MLS title in 2000 when he was with Kansas City, and also reached the MLS final in 1997 with Colorado. Prior to the start of MLS in 1996, he had played one season each in the the Western Soccer League, the Norwegian first division and the German second division.
He is among the all-time leaders in MLS appearances, having played 317 MLS regular-season games and 31 MLS playoff games.
Eduardo Hurtado (2016)
(Last played in MLS in 2000; last played in the MISL in 2004; last played at the required level outside the United States in 2006).
Has met the Hall of Fame eligibility criteria via his MLS seasons.
An Ecuadoran forward who was one of the stars of the first MLS season, in 1996.
Hurtado played five seasons in MLS between 1996 and 2000 for Los Angeles, MetroStars and New England, and was chosen as an MLS all-star in 1996. He was a runnerup for the MLS title that year with Los Angeles, and scored the opening goal of the first MLS championship game.
After leaving MLS, he played in the first divisions in Scotland, Argentina, Chile and Ecuador before retiring, and briefly returned to the United States to play in the Major Indoor Soccer League in 2004. He played 108 MLS regular-season games and nine MLS playoff games.
Dominic Kinnear (2010)
(Last played in the U.S. national team in 1994; last played in the A-League in 1995; last played professionally outside the United States in 1995; last played in MLS in 2000).
Has met the Hall of Fame eligibility criteria via his U.S. national team caps..
A midfielder who was a member of the U.S. national team in the early 1990s and later played in MLS.
Kinnear played the first of his 54 games in the U.S. national team against Trinidad on Nov. 19, 1990 and the last against Armenia on May 15, 1994. He was a member of the United States team that won the CONCACAF Gold Cup in 1991 and played in the Copa America and the CONCACAF Gold Cup in 1993.
Kinnear played five seasons in MLS for the Colorado Rapids, San Jose Earthquakes and Tampa Bay Mutiny, appearing in 117 MLS regular-season games and four MLS playoff games. Before the establishment of MLS, he had played six seasons in the APSL/A-League and one season in the Mexican first division.
In 2009, he completed his sixth season as a head coach of the San Jose Earthquakes and Houston Dynamo in MLS, after having been named MLS coach of the year in 2005.
Roy Lassiter
(Last played professionally outside the United States in 1997; last played in the U.S. national team in 2000; last played in MLS in 2002; last played in the A-League in 2003).
Has met the Hall of Fame eligibility criteria via both his MLS seasons and his U.S. national team caps.
A forward who was one of the great goalscorers in the early seasons of MLS.
Lassiter played seven seasons in MLS between 1996 and 2002, for Tampa Bay, D.C., Miami and Kansas City. He was the MLS scoring leader, and an all-star selection, in 1996 when he was with Tampa Bay. With D.C., he won an MLS title in 1999 and a CONCACAF Champions Cup title in 1998. In addition to his MLS seasons, he played one season in the A-League, three seasons in the Costa Rican first division and one partial loan season in the Italian second division. In his 179 MLS regular-season games and 21 MLS playoff games he scored a total of 101 goals.
Lassiter played 30 full internationals for the United States, the first in 1992 and the last in 2000, including five World Cup qualifiers in 1996 and 1997.
Shannon MacMillan
(Last played professionally outside the United States in 1997; last played in the WUSA in 2004; last played in the U.S. national team in 2005; last played in the WPSL in 2005).
Has met the Hall of Fame eligibility criteria via her U.S. national team caps.
A forward who played in the U.S. national team for a dozen years and was the “supersub” of the 1999 Women’s World Cup champions.
MacMillan played 176 full internationals for the United States, the first against Australia in July 1993 and the last against Mexico in October 2005. Included in that long career were four World Cup qualifiers in 2002 and eight World Cup games in 1999 and 2003. She played in all six of the United States’ games at the 1999 Women’s World Cup, five of them as a substitute. She scored a goal in the one game she started, against North Korea, and her corner kick seconds after entering the quarterfinal against Germany set up the gamewinning goal. In the 1996 Olympics, she scored the winning goal in overtime in the United States’ semifinal victory over Norway, and then had the opening goal of the United States’ victory over China in the final. In addition to her two World Cups, she also played for the United States in two Olympic Games, 1996 and 2000.
MacMillan played three seasons in the WUSA (plus the 2004 festivals), all of them with San Diego, two seasons in the Japanese professional league and one season in the WPSL. She was named an all-star in the inaugural WUSA season, 2001, and played 43 WUSA regular-season games.
Joe-Max Moore (2014)
(Last played professionally outside the United States in 2002; last played in the U.S. national team in 2002; last played in MLS in 2004).
Has met the Hall of Fame eligibility criteria via his U.S. national team caps.
A midfielder and forward who was a member of United States teams at three World Cups and also starred for several club teams.
Moore first came to prominence in 1991, when he scored the winning goal for the United States in the Pan-American Games final against Mexico, and the following year he played for the United States in the Olympic Games. By 1993 he was a regular in the full national team and was a member of the U.S. squad at the 1994 World Cup. He ended up playing 100 full internationals for the United States in a national-team career that lasted through 2002. He appeared in four World Cup games, in 1998 and 2002, and 20 World Cup qualifiers. Perhaps the highlight of his national-team career was the two goals he scored in the 2-0 win over Jamaica in 2001 that clinched the United States’ place in the 2002 World Cup. He also was a member of the U.S. team at the 1999 Confederations Cup.
Moore played six seasons in MLS, all of them with New England, three seasons in the English Premier League and two seasons in the German second division. He played 93 MLS regular-season games and two MLS playoff games.
Victor Nogueira (2014)
(Last played in the NASL in 1984; last played in the MISL in 2004).
Has met the Hall of Fame eligibility criteria via his NASL seasons.
A goalkeeper who starred in the NASL and then continued playing indoors for two decades afterward.
Nogueira, who was born in Mozambique, broke into the North American Soccer League in 1979 with the Atlanta Chiefs. He won his only NASL championship in 1984, the league’s final season, with the Chicago Sting. During his six-season NASL career, he played 79 NASL regular-season games and eight NASL playoff games.
After the end of the NASL, Nogueira played nine seasons in the Major Indoor Soccer League and 13 seasons in the National Professional Soccer League. He was named the MISL most valuable player in 1991 and 1992, and the NPSL most valuable player in 1996 and 1998. He played 16 games for the U.S. national futsal team between 1992 and 2000.
Peter Nowak (2012)
(Last played in MLS in 2002).
Has met the Hall of Fame eligibility criteria via his MLS seasons.
A Polish midfielder who won a number of honors in MLS.
Nowak played five seasons in MLS, all for Chicago, between 1998 and 2002. He won the MLS championship once, in 1998, and also was a runnerup for the MLS title in 2000. He won the U.S. Open Cup title twice, in 1998 and 2000. He was chosen as an MLS all-star three times, in 1998, 2000 and 2001. He played 114 MLS regular-season games and 20 MLS playoff games.
In 2006, he completed his third season as head coach of D.C. United in MLS. He since has been an assistant coach of the U.S. national team and head coach of the U.S. Olympic team.
John O'Brien (2016)
(Last played professionally outside the United States in 2005; last played in the U.S. national team in 2006; last played in MLS in 2006.
Has met the Hall of Fame eligibility critria via his U.S. national team caps.
A midfielder who was one of the stars of the United States team at the 2002 World Cup.
O’Brien played 32 full internationals for the United States between 1998 and 2006. Those included all five United States games at the 2002 World Cup, where he scored the opening goal of the American upset over Portugal, and one game at the 2006 World Cup. He also was a member of the United States team that won the 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup and played for the United States in the 2000 Olympic Games.
O’Brien spent nearly all of his professional club career in Holland, where he played eight seasons in the first division. He also played one season, 2006, in Major League Soccer, for Chivas, but appeared in only one MLS game.
Cindy Parlow (2014)
(Last played in the W-League in 1999; last played in the U.S. national team in 2004; last played in the WUSA in 2004).
Has met the Hall of Fame eligibility criteria via her U.S. national team caps.
A forward who was a regular in the team that won the 1999 Women’s World Cup, and won Olympic gold medals in 1996 and 2004.
During her career in the U.S. national team, Parlow played 158 full internationals. Those included two games at the 1996 Olympics, six at the 1999 Women’s World Cup, five at the 2000 Olympics, five at the 2003 Women’s World Cup and two at the 2004 Olympics, plus four World Cup qualifiers. Her first full international was against Russia in January 1996 and her last against Mexico in December 2004.
Parlow played four seasons in the Women’s United Soccer Association, all of them with the Atlanta Beat. She was a member of the Atlanta teams that finished as runnersup for the WUSA title in 2001 and 2003. She was a second-team WUSA all-star in 2001, and during her WUSA career played 55 regular-season games and five playoff games.
Preki Radosavljevic (2015)
(Last played in the MISL in 1992; last played professionally outside the United States in 1995; last played in the CISL in 1995; last played in the U.S. national team in 2001; last played in MLS in 2005).
Has met the Hall of Fame eligibility criteria via both his MLS seasons and his U.S. national team caps.
A midfielder who moved from indoor soccer to a successful outdoor career in Major League Soccer and the U.S. national team.
Radosavljevic, whose real first name was Predrag, played 10 seasons in MLS, between 1996 and 2005, for Kansas City and Miami. He won an MLS championship with Kansas City in 2000 and was named an MLS all-star four times, in 1996, 1997, 2001 and 2003. He was the first player to win the MLS most valuable player award twice, in 1997 and 2003, seasons in which he also won the MLS scoring title.
Radosavljevic, who broke into the U.S. national team after becoming an American citizen in 1996, played 28 full internationals for the United States, the first against Guatemala in November 1996 and the last against Costa Rica in September 2001. Those included 10 World Cup qualifiers in 1996, 1997 and 2001, and two games at the 1998 World Cup. Radosavljevic, who was famed for his deadly left foot, used that foot to score one of the most famous goals in national team history, the only goal of a landmark win over Brazil in 1998.
In additional to his years in MLS, he played three seasons in English professional leagues, two in the Yugoslavian first division, one in the Portuguese first division, seven in the Major Indoor Soccer League and two in the Continental Indoor Soccer League. He won MVP awards in both indoor leagues, in the MISL in 1989 and the CISL in 1995. He played 242 MLS regular-season games and 26 MLS playoff games.
In 2009, he finished his third season as coach of Chivas USA in MLS, after having been chosen as MLS coach of the year in 2007.
Mike Sorber (2010)
(Last played professionally outside the United States in 1996; last played in the U.S. national team in 1998; last played in MLS in 2000).
Has met the Hall of Fame eligibility criteria via his U.S. national team caps.
A midfielder who started all four games for the United States at the 1994 World Cup.
Sorber played 67 full internationals for the United States, the first against the CIS in 1992 and the last against Paraguay in 1998. After having been a regular in the U.S. team at the 1994 World Cup, he played seven of the United States' 10 World Cup qualifiers in 1997. He also played for the United States in the 1995 Copa America and the 1996 CONCACAF Gold Cup.
Sorber played five seasons in Major League Soccer, for Kansas City, MetroStars and Chicago, and played 116 MLS regular-season games and 12 MLS playoff games. Before the start of MLS, he played two seasons in the Mexican first division.
Earnie Stewart (2015)
(Last played in the U.S. national team in 2004; last played in MLS in 2004; last played professionally outside the United States in 2005).
Has met the Hall of Fame eligibility criteria via his U.S. national team caps.
A forward who starred in the U.S. national team for more than a decade, including three World Cups.
Stewart played 101 full international games for the United States, the first against Portugal in December 1990 and the last against Grenada in June 2004. Included among those 101 caps were 30 in World Cup qualifiers in 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001 and 2004, and 10 in the World Cup itself in 1994, 1998 and 2002. Stewart scored the winning goal of the United States’ landmark victory over Colombia in the 1994 World Cup and was captain of the United States team in the landmark victory over Portugal in the 2002 World Cup. He was the Honda Award winner as the outstanding national-team player in 2001. At the time he retired, his 30 World Cup qualifying games were an all-time national-team record. Among the other events in which he played for the United States were the Copa America in 1995, the Confederations Cup in 1999 and 2003, and the CONCACAF Gold Cup in 2003.
Stewart, the son of an American serviceman and his Dutch wife, spent most of his club career in Holland, where he played 16 seasons for several different clubs, mostly in the top division. He also played the 2003 and 2004 seasons in Major League Soccer, both with D.C. United, where he won an MLS championship in 2004. In those two seasons, he played 47 MLS regular-season games and six MLS playoff games.
Steve Trittschuh (2011)
(Last played in the MISL in 1988; last played professionally outside the United States in 1993; last played in the NPSL in 1995; last played in the A-League in 1995; last played in the U.S. national team in 1995; last played in MLS in 2001).
Has met the Hall of Fame eligibility criteria via his U.S. national team caps.
A defender who starred for the U.S. national team in the late 1980s and early 1990s and was the first American ever to play in the European Champions Cup.
Trittschuh played 38 full internationals for the United States between 1987 and 1995, and was a member of the United States team at the 1990 World Cup, where he played one game, against Czechoslovakia, after having played all 10 of the United States' games in qualifying during 1988 and 1989. As a result of that game against Czechoslovakia, Trittschuh was signed to play the 1990-91 season for Sparta Prague of the Czech first division, and it was during that season that he became the first American in the European Champions Cup.
Trittschuh, who also played for A-League clubs for six seasons, plus one season each in the Dutch first division, the MISL and the NPSL, joined MLS at its start in 1996 and played six seasons in that league for Colorado and Tampa Bay. He appeared in 153 MLS regular-season games and nine MLS playoff games.
Carlos Valderrama (2012)
(Last played in MLS in 2002).
Has met the Hall of Fame eligibility criteria via his MLS seasons.
A Colombian midfielder who was one of the leading stars of MLS' early seasons.
Valderrama played seven seasons in MLS between 1996 and 2002 for Tampa Bay, Miami and Colorado. He was chosen as an MLS all-star in 1996, 1997 and 2000, and was the MLS most valuable player in 1996. During his MLS career, he played 148 MLS regular-seasons games and 12 MLS playoff games.
Valderrama was perhaps the best-known of several international stars attracted to MLS in its inaugural season. He had captained Colombia in the 1990 and 1994 World Cups.
Tisha Venturini-Hoch (2013)
(Last played in the WPSL in 1997; last played in the W-League in 1998; last played in the U.S. national team in 2000; last played in the WUSA in 2003).
Has met the Hall of Fame eligibility criteria via her U.S. national team caps.
A midfielder who played in two World Cups for the United States.
Venturini, although not a starter, was one of the most visible stars of the team that won the Women's World Cup in 1999, playing in two of the six games (including the final) and scoring two goals. She also had been a member of the United States team at the 1995 Women's World Cup, where she played all six United States games, and the 1996 Olympic Games, where she played all five United States games. She played 132 full internationals for the United States between 1992 and her retirement from the national team in 2000.
Venturini played three seasons in the WUSA, all for San Jose, and won a WUSA championship in 2001. She also played one season in the W-League and one season in the WPSL. She played 60 WUSA regular-season games and two WUSA playoff games.
Peter Vermes (2012)
(Last played in the ASL in 1988; last played professionally outside the United States in 1992; last played in the NPSL in 1997; last played in the U.S. national team in 1997; last played in MLS in 2002).
Has met the Hall of Fame eligibility criteria via both his MLS seasons and his U.S. national team caps.
A forward in the U.S. national team early in his career who later was an outstanding defender in MLS.
Vermes played 67 full internationals for the United States between 1988 and 1997, including eight of the United States' 10 World Cup qualifiers in 1988 and 1989 and all three of its World Cup games in 1990. He scored a key goal in the United States' landmark victory in the CONCACAF Gold Cup in 1991.
Vermes was among the first American professional players in Europe, starting in 1988, playing one season in the Hungarian first division, one season in the Dutch first division and one season in the Spanish second division.
He played seven seasons in MLS between 1996 and 2002 for MetroStars, Colorado and Kansas City, and won an MLS championship with Kansas City in 2000, a season in which he also was chosen as an MLS all-star and the league's outstanding defender. Twelve years earlier, he had been the USSF men's athlete of the year after playing for the United States in the 1988 Olympic Games.
Vermes played 184 MLS regular-season games and 25 MLS playoff games. Besides his years in MLS and Europe, he also played one season in the ASL and one season in the NPSL.
In 2009, while in his third season as technical director of the Kansas City Wizards in MLS, he became head coach of the team in mid-season. |
