Veterans' Eligibility Biographies

Desmond Armstrong. A defender who played for the United States at the 1990 World Cup and on numerous other occasions.
Armstrong played 81 full internationals for the United States, the first against Egypt in June 1987 and the last against Estonia in May 1994. He played all 90 minutes of the United States' three games in the 1990 World Cup and also played in the 1991 CONCACAF Gold Cup, the 1993 CONCACAF Gold Cup and the 1988 Olympic Games.
Armstrong also played three seasons in the Major Indoor Soccer League, three seasons in the American Professional Soccer and the leagues that preceded it, and two seasons in the USISL.

Boris Bandov. A versatile player who spent 10 seasons in the North American Soccer League, and also was a regular in the U.S. national team during the late 1970s and early '80s.
Bandov began his NASL career as a forward. He later moved to midfield and defense. Bandov played for San Jose, Seattle, Tampa Bay, New York and Team America, winning an NASL title in 1982 with the New York Cosmos. He played in 104 NASL regular-season games and six NASL playoff games, scoring 11 goals.
Bandov played 33 games for the United States between 1976 and 1983, scoring two goals, and was among the all-time leaders in national-team appearances when he retired. In one stretch, from 1976 to '80, he started 30 consecutive national-team games. He played five World Cup qualifiers in 1976 and three World Cup qualifiers in 1980. After his NASL career, he played two seasons in the MISL and two seasons in the United Soccer League.

Jimmy Banks. A defender who played for the United States in the 1990 World Cup.
Banks played 36 full internationals for the United States, the first against Canada in 1986 and the last against Jamaica in 1991. He play four of the United States’ World Cup qualifying games in 1989, and then two games at the World Cup in Italy the following year.
Banks also played five seasons in the Major Indoor Soccer League.

Barry Barto. North American Soccer League and U.S. national team midfielder who was one of the local stars of the Philadelphia Atoms' 1973 NASL champion team.
Barto played six seasons in the NASL, for the Montreal Olympiques in 1972, Philadelphia from 1973 through '76 and the Fort Lauderdale Strikers in 1977. He played 68 NASL regular-season games and two NASL playoff games.
Barto was a regular in the U.S. national team in the mid-1970s, playing 16 full internationals, the first against Canada in 1972 and the last against Poland in 1975. His national-team appearances included all four of the United States' World Cup qualifying games in 1972.

Tracy Bates. A midfielder who was a member of the United States team that won the first Women's World Cup in 1991.
Bates played 29 full internationals for the United States, the first against Norway in 1987 and the last against Japan in 1991. These included four games in the World Cup qualifying tournament in Haiti in the spring of 1991 and one at the World Cup itself in China the fall of 1991.

Debbie Belkin. A defender who was a member of the United States team that won the first Women's World Cup in 1991.
Belkin played 50 full internationals for the United States, the first against Canada in 1986 and the last against Taiwan in 1991. She played in four of the United States' five games during the World Cup qualifying tournament in Haiti in the spring of 1991 and four of its six games during the World Cup in China in the fall of 1991.

Tony Bellinger. A midfielder who played in the North American Soccer League, the U.S. national team and the Major Indoor Soccer League.
Bellinger played six teams in the NASL between 1977 to and 1983, the first five of those for the Dallas Tornado and the last for Team America. He played 126 NASL regular-season games and seven NASL playoff games. He was chosen as an NASL North American all-star in 1980.
Bellinger played seven full internationals for the United States, the first against El Salvador in 1977 and the last against Portugal in 1980. He played eight seasons in the MISL, all of them for the St. Louis Steamers, retiring in 1987.

George Best. Forward-midfielder from Northern Ireland, one of the most famous players in the history of the game, who played six seasons in the NASL.
Best was capped 37 times by Northern Ireland, but gained his greatest fame as a star in the English League with Manchester United, for whom he played from 1961 to '75. In the NASL, he played for Los Angeles in 1976, '77 and part of '78, for the Fort Lauderdale Strikers in part of 1978 and all of '79, and for the San Jose Earthquakes in 1980 and '81.
Best played 139 NASL regular-seasons games and 11 NASL playoff games, in which he scored 57 goals. He may have been more famous in the NASL as a playmaker than as a goalscorer, with 60 assists in his NASL career. He was a first-team NASL all-star choice in 1976 and '77, a second-team all-star in 1981 and an honorable mention all-star in 1978.

Jerry Best. A forward who was one of the leading attackers of the original American Soccer League.
Best played eight seasons in the ASL between 1924 and 1931 for Providence, New Bedford, Fall River and Pawtucket. He was the ASL’s leading goalscorer in the fall 1930 season, getting 35 goals in 27 games for the New Bedford Whalers. After the demise of the original ASL, he returned to his native England to play several more seasons.

John Best. One of the leading players in the early seasons of the North American Soccer League, and later a prominent team official.
Best, a defender and midfielder, played six seasons in the NASL, with the Cleveland Stokers in 1968 and the Dallas Tornado from 1969 through '73. He was chosen as a first-team NASL all-star in all five of his Dallas seasons, and led the team to its only NASL championship in 1971, as well as a runnerup finish in 1973. In those six seasons, he played 114 NASL regular-season games and 11 NASL playoff games.
After his playing career, Best was coach of the Seattle Sounders for three seasons, and then began a successful run as general manager of the Vancouver Whitecaps.
Best played only one full international for the United States, against Poland in 1973, but played in the U.S. national team in several other games that were not full internationals.

Hubert Birkenmaier. Goalkeeper who was a fixture in the New York Cosmos lineup during the final six seasons of the North American Soccer League. The steady, unflashy player was one of the most successful goalkeepers in NASL history.
Birkenmaier joined the Cosmos at the start of the 1979 season, after they had found him with a West German second-division club the year before. In his six years with the Cosmos, he played 145 NASL regular-season games and 23 NASL playoff games.
Birkenmaier won NASL championships with the Cosmos in 1980 and 1982, as well as gaining a runnerup finish in 1981. He was a first-team NASL all-star in 1982 and 1984, and a second-team selection in 1981. After the end of the NASL, he played three seasons in the Major Indoor Soccer League.

Brian Bliss. A defender who played in the U.S. national team and Major League Soccer in the 1990s.
Bliss was a member of the U.S. teams at the 1990 World Cup and the 1988 Olympic Games. He played 34 full internationals for the United States, the first against Ecuador in December 1984 and the last against Colombia in June 1995. Those 34 games included one of the United States' three games at the 1990 World Cup and nine of the United States' 10 games in qualifying for the 1990 World Cup.
Bliss played three season in MLS for Columbus, MetroStars and Kansas City, retiring in 1998. He also played six seasons in German professional leagues, two seasons in the American Professional Soccer League and the leagues that preceded it and one season in the Major Indoor Soccer League.

Chico Borja. Midfielder who played for the New York Cosmos in the last years of the North American Soccer League and then continued to star in indoor leagues for a number of years afterward.
Borja, who was born in Ecuador, played 11 full international games for the United States, including five games in the qualifying rounds of the 1986 and 1990 World Cups. He also was a member of the United States team at the 1984 Olympic Games.
Borja played four seasons in the NASL, for New York in 1981, 1982 and 1984 and for Team America in 1983, He played in the NASL championship game in 1981 and was a member of the squad when the Cosmos won the NASL title in 1982. He was chosen as an NASL North American all-star in 1984.
After the demise of the NASL, Borja played indoors for another 10 seasons. He played in the Major Indoor Soccer League for Wichita, Las Vegas and Los Angeles and the in National Professional Soccer League.

Jack Brand. Canadian goalkeeper who played for six different teams in his eight North American Soccer League seasons, mostly notably the New York Cosmos team that won the NASL championship in 1978. Brand played 15 games for the Cosmos that season. In the Cosmos' last four playoff games, including the championship game, Brand gave up only one goal.
Brand's best season was 1980, when he was with the Seattle Sounders. That season, he was selected as the league's North American player of the year, set a league record with his 15 shutouts in 37 games, had a league-leading goals-against average of 0.91 and was named a second-team NASL all-star.
Brand, who played 132 NASL regular-season games and 21 NASL playoff games, started his NASL career with the Toronto Metros in 1974. He played for Toronto in 1974 and '75, the Rochester Lancers in 1977, New York in 1978 and part of '79, the Tulsa Roughnecks in part of '79, Seattle in 1980 and '81, and the Tampa Bay Rowdies in 1982.
Brand won seven full international caps for Canada, and also was Canada's goalkeeper in the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal.

Roberto Cabanas. Paraguayan forward who succeeded Giorgio Chinaglia as the leading scorer of the New York Cosmos in the final seasons of the NASL.
Cabanas joined the Cosmos in the 1980 season and scored 63 goals in the next five seasons. He led the league with 25 goals in 1983, a season in which he was the NASL's most valuable player. Cabanas, who played 86 regular-season games and 13 playoff games in his five NASL seasons, won two NASL championships with the Cosmos, in 1980 and 1982. He was a first-team all-star in 1983 and a second-team all-star in 1981.
Cabanas, along with Cosmos teammate Julio Cesar Romero, was one of the leading stars of the Paraguayan national team in the early and mid-1980s, including the squads that won the 1980 South American championship and reached the second round of the 1986 World Cup.

John Calder. A forward who was one of the leading goalscorers of the American Soccer League in the 1940s and ‘50s.
Calder played seven seasons in the ASL between 1948 and 1955 for Kearny Scots and Newark Portuguese. He won the ASL scoring title in 1954 when he was with Newark Portuguese and took the ASL’s Lewis Cup twice, in 1948 with Kearny Scots and 1953 with Newark Portuguese.

Dugald “Dougie” Campbell. A winger who starred for the Fall River Marksmen and other teams in the original American Soccer League.
Campbell played eight seasons in the ASL and was a member of the Fall River teams that won the ASL championship in 1924, 1925 and 1926 and the U.S. Open Cup in 1924 and 1927. Besides his seasons in Fall River, he also played two seasons for Bethlehem Steel and one for the New York Giants, and was a member of the Bethlehem Steel team that won the ASL in 1922, playing as Philadelphia.
Campbell played 224 regular-season games and one playoff game in the original ASL.

James Campbell. A mainstay of the Bethlehem Steel teams that played in five consecutive U.S. Open Cup finals between 1915 and 1919. Campbell was a star of four U.S. Open Cup-winning Bethlehem teams, in 1915, 1916, 1918 and 1919. He also won the AFA Cup with Bethlehem in 1916, 1917, 1918 and 1919.
Campbell played for Bethlehem in all four of its seasons in the National Association Foot Ball League, winning NAFBL titles in 1919, 1920 and 1921, and four seasons in the American Soccer League for Todd Shipyards, Harrison and Newark Skeeters.
He played 46 games in the original ASL.

Julio "Ringo" Cantillo. Midfielder who starred in the ASL, the NASL and the U.S. national team in the 1970s and '80s.
Cantillo, who came to the United States from Costa Rica as a foreign-exchange student and began his ASL career while still in high school, won ASL most valuable player awards in 1972, '74 and '77, and ASL championships with the Cincinnati Comets in 1972 and the New Jersey Americans in 1977. He played his first NASL season in 1976 with the Tampa Bay Rowdies, returned to the ASL for a year and then played for the NASL's New England Tea Men, Jacksonville Tea Men and Team America from 1978 to 1983. In his seven NASL seasons, he appeared in 174 regular-season games and eight playoff games. He also played one season in the MISL. He was an NASL North American all-star in 1980.
Cantillo played 11 games for the United States between 1979 and '82, including four World Cup qualifiers in 1980 and the game in which the United States upset Hungary in 1979.

Ade Coker. Nigerian-born forward who played 10 seasons in the North American Soccer League, and also starred briefly in the U.S. national team.
Coker moved into the NASL in 1974, joining the Boston Minutemen. In the course of his NASL career, he played for Boston, the Minnesota Kicks, the San Diego Sockers and the Rochester Lancers. He played 156 NASL regular-season games and 19 NASL playoff games, scoring a total of 84 goals, and was an NASL North American all-star in 1981.
Coker played five full internationals for the United States, all in 1984, including two World Cup qualifiers. He scored two goals in a World Cup qualifier against the Netherlands Antilles. He played eight seasons in the Major Indoor Soccer League.

Mike Connell. South African defender who was one of the most durable players in the North American Soccer League, appearing in 252 regular-seasons games and 25 playoff games during his nine seasons with the Tampa Bay Rowdies. He ranks third in all-time appearances.
Connell played in three league championship games, which lasted from 1975 to 1984. He was a member of the Rowdies team that won the NASL title in 1975 and the teams that lost to the New York Cosmos in the 1978 final and the Vancouver Whitecaps in the 1979 final. He was chosen as a first-team NASL all-star twice, in 1979 and 1980, and also was an honorable mention selection in 1982. In his 277 NASL games, he scored eight goals.
"Iron Mike" Connell played 30 or more games in six consecutive seasons, topped by 37 games in 1979. In one stretch lasting from 1979 to 1984, he started 69 consecutive games, missed one, and then started 89 more consecutive games.

Ken Cooper. Goalkeeper who starred for the Dallas Tornado throughout his 10-season North American Soccer League career.
Cooper played for Dallas from 1970 to '79, and was an NASL all-star selection three times, a first-team pick in 1972 and '73 and a second-team choice in 1975. He was a member of the Dallas squad in 1971, when the Tornado won the NASL title, but did not play in the championship series. He was an NASL runnerup with Dallas in 1973.
Cooper, who later coached for 15 seasons in the Major Indoor Soccer League and the National Professional Soccer League, played 170 NASL regular-season games and 11 NASL playoff games.

Teofilo "Nene" Cubillas. Peruvian international star who played for five seasons in the North American Soccer League for the Fort Lauderdale Strikers.
Cublllas, a forward early in his career and a midfielder later, played for Fort Lauderdale from 1979 to 1983. He did not go with the team when it moved to Minnesota for the 1984 season, but remained in Florida, where he eventually played two seasons in the United Soccer League and two in the third American Soccer League. Cubillas played 120 NASL regular-season games and 21 NASL playoff games, scoring 65 goals.
In 1980, Cubillas was the leading goalscorer for the Fort Lauderdale team that reached the NASL title game. He was a first-team NASL all-star in 1980 and '81, and a second-team selection in 1979 and '82.
Cubillas was the star of the Peruvian national team throughout the 1970s, including the teams that reached the final eight of the World Cup in both 1970 and 1978. In 1982, he played for Peru in a third World Cup, becoming one of the few NASL players ever to appear in the World Cup during the league season.

Steve David. Forward who was one of the North American Soccer League's leading goalscorers in the 1970s.
David, a star of Trinidad's national team, played eight seasons in the NASL and scored exactly 100 goals, putting him sixth among NASL career goals-scorers. Every one of those goals came in regular-season games. David played in only eight playoff games during his NASL career, and reached the NASL title game once, with the Miami Toros in 1974. He led the league in goals twice, in 1975 when he was with Miami and in 1977 when he was with the Los Angeles. He was a first-team NASL all-star selection in both of those years, and was named the league's Most Valuable Player in 1975.
David played in 183 NASL games with six different teams. He played in 1974, '75 and '76 for Miami, in 1977 for Los Angeles, in 1978 for Los Angeles, Detroit and California, in 1979 for California, in 1980 for San Diego and San Jose and in 1981 for San Jose. After retiring from the NASL, he played three seasons in the MISL.

Leroy DeLeon. Trinidadian forward who was one of the leading stars in the early seasons of the North American Soccer League.
DeLeon played 10 seasons in the NASL, including the league’s inaugural season of 1968. He played for the New York Generals in 1968, the Washington Darts in 1970 and ’71, the Miami Gatos in 1972, the Washington Diplomats in 1974 to ’77, the San Jose Earthquakes in 1977 and ’78 and the Seattle Sounders in 1979.
His best season was 1970, when he finished fourth in the last in scoring, was named a first-team NASL and led his Washington team to a runner-up finish in the league. After retiring from the NASL, he played three seasons in the MISL.

Dave D'Errico. North American Soccer League defender who also played in the U.S. national team for several seasons.
D'Errico played for the United States in four World Cup qualifying games against Canada and Mexico in 1976, when he was with the Seattle Sounders. He captained the United States in three friendlies against China in 1977, when he was with the Minnesota Kicks. In all, D'Errico played 19 full internationals for the United States between 1974 and '77.
D'Errico, who starred in college at Hartwick, played seven seasons in the NASL, with Seattle from 1974 to '76, Minnesota in 1977, New England in 1978, Rochester in 1979 and San Diego in 1980. He played 121 NASL regular-season games and two NASL playoff games, and also played four seasons in the MISL. He was an NASL North American all-star in 1978.

Angelo DiBernardo. Midfielder who played six seasons in the North American Soccer League in the 1970s and '80s and also starred for the U.S. national team.
DiBernardo, who was born in Argentina, broke into the NASL in 1979 with the Los Angeles Aztecs after having played for Indiana University, where he won the Hermann Trophy in his senior year. After one season with Los Angeles, he was transferred to New York and played for the Cosmos for the NASL's final five seasons. In all, he played 87 NASL regular-season games and eight NASL playoff games, scoring 12 goals. DiBernardo's best NASL season was in 1980, when he played in 34 games for the Cosmos, including the NASL championship game against Fort Lauderdale, scored nine goals and was named an NASL North American all-star.
DiBernardo made 20 appearances in the U.S. national team between 1979 and 1985, and scored three goals, one of which came in the 2-0 upset of Hungary in 1979. His national-team appearances included 10 World Cup qualifiers, four in 1980, two in 1984 and four in 1985. He also was a member of the United States team at the 1984 Olympic Games. By the end of his national-team career, after the folding of the NASL, he was playing for the Kansas City Comets of the Major Indoor Soccer League, in which he played three seasons.

John Donald. Midfielder who was an American Soccer League star in the 1950s, including winning the league’s Most Valuable Player Award in 1951.
Donald played nine seasons in the ASL between 1950 and 1960 for Kearney Scots, Brooklyn Hispano, Newark Portuguese and Polish Falcons. He was a runnerup for an ASL title twice, in 1951 and 1952.

Jeff Durgan. Defender who starred in the North American Soccer League and the U.S. national team in the 1980s.
Durgan played five seasons in the NASL, for the New York Cosmos from 1980 through 1982, Team America in 1983 and New York again in 1984. He won NASL titles with the Cosmos in 1980 and '82, and was a runnerup in 1981. He played 121 NASL regular-season games and 19 NASL playoff games.
Durgan was selected as an NASL North American all-star in four consecutive seasons, 1980 through '83. He played seven games in the U.S. national team, the first against Haiti in 1983 and the last against Trinidad in 1985. Three of those games were World Cup qualifiers, two in 1984 and one in 1985. He played one season in the Major Indoor Soccer League.

Eric Eichmann. A midfielder and forward who played in the U.S. national team throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Eichmann played 29 full internationals for the United States, the first against Canada in February 1986 and the last against Honduras in March 1993. He was a member of the United States team at the 1990 World Cup in Italy.
Eichmann played one season in Major League Soccer, 1996, for the Kansas City Wiz. He earlier had played four seasons in the American Professional Soccer League and the leagues that preceded it.

Mike England. Welsh international who was a dominant player during his five seasons in the NASL, winning first-team all-star honors four times.
England, a defender known for a rugged style, joined the Seattle Sounders in 1975 from Tottenham Hotspur, for whom he had been a mainstay for nine seasons in the English first division. He was only one of dozens of English League veterans to be recruited by NASL teams, but was a cut above most of them in his accomplishments. England was named a first-team NASL all-star in each of his first four NASL seasons, 1975, '76, '77 and '78. He was a key member of the Sounders team that reached the NASL championship game in 1977.
England played a total of 106 NASL regular-season games and 10 NASL playoff games, and started all but one of Seattle's games during that 1977 season. Prior to coming to Seattle, he had won 44 full international caps for Wales, which he frequently captained, and he later was manager of the Welsh national team for several seasons. He also played one season in the Major Indoor Soccer League.

Charlie Ernst. One of the leading forwards in the American Soccer League during the 1930s and 1940s.
Ernst played nine seasons in the ASL between 1936 and 1948, all for Baltimore teams, first Baltimore S.C. and later Baltimore Americans. He won a U.S. Open Cup title in 1940, when Baltimore S.C. shared the cup with a Chicago team, and an ASL championship in 1946 with Baltimore Americans. He led the ASL in goalscoring in two seasons, 1936-37 and 1939-40.

Andranik Eskandarian. Defender who played six seasons for the New York Cosmos in the North American Soccer League, winning first-team NASL all-star honors three times.
Eskandarian played for Iran in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina, and then was signed by the Cosmos before the 1979 NASL season. He played for the Cosmos from then until the end of the NASL after the 1984 season. He played 142 NASL regular-season games and 22 NASL playoff games, topped by 35 games in the 1981 season. He was a member of the Cosmos' NASL champion teams in 1980 and 1982, and was named a first-team NASL all-star in 1982, '83 and '84, as well as a honorable mention selection in 1980.
Eskandarian played two seasons in the Major Indoor Soccer League after the end of the NASL.

Gary Etherington. Forward who played seven seasons in the North American Soccer League, including three with the New York Cosmos, and was one of the league's most talented American players.
Etherington, who signed with the Cosmos directly out of high school, eventually played a total of 123 NASL regular-season games and 11 NASL playoff games, and scored 16 goals. In 1977, '78 and '79, he managed to appear in 40 games for the Cosmos, despite that team's star-studded roster.
Etherington later played for the Los Angeles Aztecs in 1980, the San Jose Earthquakes in 1981 and '82, and the Minnesota Strikers in 1984. He appeared in 30 or more games in three consecutive seasons, 1980, '81 and '82, and was an NASL North American all-star in 1978. Etherington also played seven games in the U.S. national team, the first against El Salvador in 1977 and the last against the Soviet Union in 1979, and followed his NASL career with seven seasons in the Major Indoor Soccer League.

Cirilo "Pepe" Fernandez. A spectacular goalscorer in the first seasons of the North American Soccer League.
The Uruguayan forward shared the NASL goalscoring lead in the league's opening season, getting 34 goals for the San Diego Toros. He had six more goals for the Kansas City Spurs in 1969, a year in which he was named the league's Most Valuable Player. He was a first-team NASL all-star selection in both of those seasons.
Fernandez, who had moved to American soccer in 1967 from Emelec of Ecuador, played from 1969 to 1974 in Holland, but then returned to the NASL and played from 1974 to '76 for the Seattle Sounders. In his NASL career, he played 61 regular-season games and four playoff games, scoring 38 goals.

Jack Ferris. Forward who was one of the greatest stars of the American Soccer League in the 1950s.
Ferris’ biggest season came in 1955, when he led the Uhrik Truckers to the league champions. He also won the ASL’s Most Valuable Player award and its goalscoring title that season. Ferris played six seasons in the ASL between 1952 and 1960 for Philadelphia Nationals, Philadelphia Americans, Uhrik Truckers and Ukrainian Nationals. He added to his honors in his final ASL season, 1960, winning the U.S. Open Cup and finishing second in the ASL race with the Ukrainian Nationals.

Mike Flater. Forward in both the North American Soccer League and the U.S. national team in the late 1970s.
Flater played five seasons in the NASL, for the Denver Dynamo in 1975, the Minnesota Kicks in 1976 and '77, the Oakland Stompers in part of 1978 and the Portland Timbers in part of 1978 and all of 1980. Flater, who played 73 NASL regular-season games and one NASL playoff game, and scored 22 goals, was an NASL North American all-star in 1978.
Flater played 15 full internationals for the United States, the first against Poland in 1975 and the last against China in 1977. Among them were five World Cup qualifiers in 1976. Flater also was a member of the United States team at the 1972 Olympic Games.

Colin Fowles. Midfielder who starred in the North American Soccer League and the U.S. national team in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Fowles, who was born in Jamaica, played seven seasons in the NASL between 1977 and '83, all for the Fort Lauderdale Strikers. He played 139 NASL regular-season games and 29 NASL playoff games, and was a runnerup for the NASL title in 1980 with Fort Lauderdale.
Fowles played 18 full internationals for the United States, the first against Guatemala in 1977 and the last against Mexico in 1980. Included in those international appearances were three World Cup qualifiers in 1980.

Ron Futcher. One of the top leading goalscorers in the North American Soccer League during his nine-season career.
Futcher scored 119 goals during his NASL career, which included 201 regular-season games and 22 playoff games. He scored at least 10 goals in eight out of his nine seasons, topped by 20 in 1983, when he won his only NASL title, with the Tulsa Roughnecks. Futcher played for the Minnesota Kicks from 1976 to 1981, the Portland Timbers in 1982 and Tulsa in 1983 and 1984. One of his goals in 1983 came in Tulsa's 2-0 victory over the Toronto Blizzard in the championship game. He also was an NASL runnerup in 1976 with Minnesota.
Both before and after his NASL years, Futcher played for Football League clubs in England.

Momcilo Gavric. A defender who was a member of the Dallas Tornado’s North American Soccer League champion team in 1971.
Gavric, a native of Yugoslavia, played five seasons in the NASL, with Oakland in 1968, Dallas in 1971 and San Jose in 1974, ’75 and ’76. He was an first-team NASL all-star in 1968 and an honorable mention all-star in 1971. Gavric played 102 NASL regular-season games and seven NASL playoff games.

Linda Hamilton. A defender who was a regular starter for the United States at both the 1991 and 1995 World Cups.
Hamilton played a total of 71 full internationals for the United States, the first against China in 1987 and the last against Norway in 1995. In the 1991 Women's World Cup in China, she came on as a substitute in the United States' opening game and then started the last five American games. In the 1995 Women's World Cup in Sweden, she started all six United States games. She also played four games for the United States in the qualifying tournament for the 1995 Women's World Cup the year before.

Paul Hammond. One of the longest-serving NASL goalkeepers, who played in the title game three times with three different teams.
Hammond, who played nine seasons in the NASL, won his only NASL championship in 1975, with the Tampa Bay Rowdies. He was an NASL runnerup in 1982 with the Seattle Sounders and 1984 with the Toronto Blizzard.
Hammond played 180 NASL regular-season games and 22 NASL playoff games. He played in 1975, 1977 and part of 1978 for Tampa Bay, part of 1978 and all of 1979 and 1980 for the Houston Hurricanes, 1981 and 1982 for Seattle, 1983 for Team America and 1984 for Toronto. He also played two seasons in the Major Indoor Soccer League. He was named a second-team NASL all-star in 1979 and an NASL North American all-star in 1984

Cyril Hannaby. Goalkeeper who starred for Baltimore teams in the American Soccer League in the 1950s.
Hannaby played seven seasons in the ASL between 1953 and 1960, all of them for either Baltimore Rockets or Baltimore Pompei. He was voted the ASL’s most valuable player in the 1953-54 season, despite his team’s seventh-place finish. We was one of the stars of the Baltimore Pompei team that finished as runnerup in the U.S. Open Cup in 1958.

Mary Harvey. The goalkeeper for the champion United States team at the 1991 Women's World Cup.
Harvey played a total of 27 full international games for the United States, the first against Poland in 1989 and the last against Australia in 1996. Harvey, who was one of the first American women to play professionally overseas, was one of the last players added to the United States roster for the 1991 World Cup, because she was playing in Germany at the time, for FSV Frankfurt. In that World Cup, she played every minute of the United States' six games, allowing only five goals and scoring three shutouts.
Harvey was also a member of the United States squad at the 1996 Olympic Games. She played five seasons in professional leagues in Germany and Sweden.

Lori Henry. A defender who was a member of the United States team at the first Women’s World Cup in 1991.
Henry played 39 full internationals for the United States, among them the first game ever played by the women’s national team. Her first full international was against Italy and 1985 and her last against Taiwan in 1991. Those 39 games included two in the 1991 Women’s World Cup.

Randy Horton. Bermudan who was the star forward of the New York Cosmos in their earliest seasons.
Horton was the NASL's Most Valuable Player in 1972, when he led the Cosmos to the championship and also led the league in scoring. He was a first-team NASL all-star in 1971 and '72, a second-team selection in 1973 and an honorable mention choice in 1974.
Horton played six seasons in the NASL, during which he appeared in 88 regular-season games and five playoff games, scoring 52 goals. He played for the Cosmos from 1971 to 1974, the Washington Diplomats in 1975 and the Hartford Bicentennials in 1976.

Ray Hudson. Midfielder who established a name for himself in Florida soccer during his long career in Fort Lauderdale.
Hudson played seven seasons for the Fort Lauderdale Strikers, from 1977 to 1983, and stayed with the team when they moved before the 1984 season, becoming the Minnesota Strikers. Hudson played 197 NASL regular-season games and 28 NASL playoff games. He was a first-team NASL all-star in 1984, a second-team all-star in 1978 and an NASL runnerup in 1982, when Fort Lauderdale reached the title game.
Hudson, who had played for Newcastle United in England before moving to the NASL, continued playing long after the end of the NASL. He played four seasons in the Major Indoor Soccer League, one in the Canadian Soccer League, two in the third American Soccer League and two in the American Professional Soccer League, finally retiring in 1991.

Bob Iarusci. Canadian defender who starred with several different teams during his nine seasons in the North American Soccer League.
Iarusci started his NASL career in 1976 with the Toronto Metros, and then played for Toronto again for part of the 1977 season. He played for the New York Cosmos for part of 1977 and all of '78, for the Washington Diplomats in 1979 and '80, the Cosmos again from 1981 to '83, and the San Diego Sockers in 1984.
Iarusci won NASL championships with Toronto in 1976, a season in which he played in every one of the Metros' games, and New York in 1978. He was an NASL runnerup with New York in 1981, and a member of the Cosmos squad in the championship season of 1977. He was chosen as an NASL North American all-star in 1979, '80, 81 and '83, and an honorable mention NASL all-star in 1981.
During his NASL career, Iarusci played 217 NASL regular-season games and 22 NASL playoff games.

John Kerr Jr. A midfielder who played in the U.S. national team, for clubs in England and Ireland and in Major League Soccer.
Kerr played 16 full international games, most of which were in the mid-1980s. The first of those was against Ecuador in November 1984 and the last against Colombia in July 1995, and they included three World Cup qualifiers in 1985.
Kerr played three seasons in the American Soccer League, five seasons in English and Irish professional leagues, one season in the Canadian Soccer League and one season in the Major Indoor Soccer League. He finished his career with two seasons in Major League Soccer, both for the New England Revolution, during which he played 38 games.

Nick Krat. U.S. national team and National Soccer League of Chicago defender in the 1960s and '70s.
Krat played 14 full internationals for the United States between 1968 and '72, including eight World Cup qualifiers in 1968, '69 and '72. He played 11 seasons in the NSL between 1962 and '74 for Ukrainian Lions, plus one season in the North American Soccer League, 1968, for St. Louis and one season in the National Professional Soccer League, 1967, for Chicago. Krat won NSL titles in 1972 and 1974 with Ukrainian Lions and played in 26 NASL regular-season games.

Joe Krische. A defender who starred in the German-American Soccer League of New York as well as in the U.S. national team.
Krische played nearly 20 seasons with BlauWeiss-Gotschee in the German-American league, of which 12 seasons were in that league’s top division. He won a GASL champion in 1963, when Blau Weiss-Gotschee won the league’s Major Division.. Krische played three full internationals for the United States in 1960 and 1961, which included both of the United States’ World Cup qualifiers against Mexico in 1960.

Jorgen Kristensen. A Danish forward who starred for several NASL teams.
Kristensen played five seasons in the NASL, for the Detroit Cougars in 1968, the Chicago Sting from 1978 to 1980 (returning to the NASL after eight seasons in Europe), the Tulsa Roughnecks in 1980 and the Calgary Boomers in 1981. He was named a first-team NASL all-star in 1968, and an honorable mention NASL all-star in 1978 and 1979. After retiring from the NASL, he played seven seasons in the MISL.

Paul Krumpe. A defender who was a member of the United States team at the 1990 World Cup.
Krumpe played 25 full internationals for the United States, the first against Canada in 1986 and the last against Canada in 1991. Those 25 included two World Cup qualifiers, one in 1988 and one in 1989. In addition to the 1990 World Cup in Italy, Krumpe also was a member of the United States team at the 1988 Olympic Games in South Korea.
Krumpe played two seasons in the Major Indoor Soccer League and four seasons in the American Professional Soccer League and the leagues that preceded it.

Tino Lettieri. Goalkeeper who was a star of the Canadian national team as well as the North American Soccer League.
Lettieri played eight seasons in the NASL, with the Minnesota Kicks from 1977 through '81, the Vancouver Whitecaps in 1982 and '83 and the Minnesota Strikers in 1984. He played in 161 NASL regular-season games and 19 NASL playoff games, and was named an NASL North American all-star in 1981.
Lettieri played 24 full internationals for Canada, and was the Canadian goalkeeper in both the 1984 Olympic Games and the 1986 World Cup. He made his first appearance for Canada in 1975, and also played for Canada in World Cup qualifying in 1980, 81, '84 and '85. Lettieri played four seasons in the Major Indoor Soccer League.

Don “Pudge” Malinowski. Goalkeeper for the strong Harmarville teams from Western Pennsylvania in the 1950s.
Malinowski starred in the Harmarville teams that won the U.S. Open Cup in 1952 and 1956, and also reached the final in 1953. He also won four championships in the Keystone League of Western Pennsylvania, with Harmarville in 1951, 1953 an 1957, and with Castle Shannon in 1954. He played four full internationals for the United States in 1954 and 1955, which included three of the United States’ four World Cup qualifiers in 1954.

Holly Manthei. A forward and midfielder who played for the United States at the 1995 Women's World Cup.
Manthei played a total of 22 full international games for the United States, the first against Denmark in February 1995 and the last against South Korea in May 1997. At the 1995 Women's World Cup in Sweden, she played in two of the United States' six games, against China and Australia.

Jimmy McAlister. One of the outstanding American players in the North American Soccer League, who went directly from high school to success with his hometown team, the Seattle Sounders.
McAlister, who played eight seasons in the NASL, was a member of the Seattle team that reached the 1977 NASL final, where it lost to the New York Cosmos. That season was one of his most productive in the NASL, one in which he played 28 games for the Sounders. He was chosen as the NASL's rookie of the year (he was eligible because he had played only two games in 1976) and an honorable mention all-star. He was chosen as an NASL North American all-star in 1978. During his eight NASL seasons, he played a total of 150 NASL games (139 regular season and 11 playoff), 79 of those with Seattle. He played for Seattle from 1976 to '79, for the Toronto Blizzard in 1980 and for the San Jose Earthquakes from 1981 to '83, and played five seasons in the Major Indoor Soccer League after retiring from the NASL.
McAlister played six games in the U.S. national team in 1977, '78 and '79, but was only 21 when he played his last game for the United States.

Ray McFaul. A midfielder who won American Soccer League titles in both Baltimore and Philadelphia.
McFaul was one of the Baltimore players whose move to Philadelphia in 1948 help to transform the Philadelphia Nationals to a championship team. He had won the ASL most valuable player award in 1946, a year in which he led the Baltimore Americans to the ASL crown. After moving to Philadelphia, he won two more ASL titles, in 1949 and 1951. In all, McFaul played eight seasons in the ASL between 1938 and 1951, all of them for those two clubs.

Bill McPherson. One of the leading players in the original American Soccer League of the 1920s, and a winner of the U.S. Open Cup a total of seven times.
McPherson played 10 seasons in the original ASL, with the Fall River Marksmen and New Bedford Whalers, between 1922 and 1931. With Fall River, he won the ASL championship five times, in 1924, ’25, ’26, ’29 and ’30. During those 10 ASL seasons he played 366 ASL regular-season games and four ASL playoff games, the most by any player. He then added two more seasons in the St. Louis Soccer League, playing for Stix, Baer & Fuller in 1933 and ’34, winning league titles in both of those years.
McPherson won U.S. Open Cup titles in both his New England and St. Louis years. He was a member of Fall River teams that won the cup in 1924, ’27, ’30 and ’31, the New Bedford team that won in 1932 and Stix & Baer & Fuller teams that won in 1933 and ’34. He was on the losing side in the cup final once, in 1935 with Pawtucket Rangers.

Megan McCarthy. A defender and midfielder who was a regular in the United States women's national team in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
McCarthy played four World Cup qualifiers for the United States in the spring of 1991. She was a member of the United States squad at the Women's World Cup in China later that year, but did not play because of injury.
McCarthy played 42 full international games for the United States, the first against Norway in 1987 and the last against Canada in 1994.

Ruben Mendoza. A midfielder who was one of the stars of the Kutis dynasty in St. Louis in the 1950s.
Mendoza played eight seasons in the St. Louis Major League, St. Louis Municipal League and St. Louis Soccer League between 1951 and 1960 for Zenthoefer Furs, Raiders and Kutis. He won number of championships in those years: League titles in 1951 with Zenthoefer, 1952 with Raiders and 1953, 1954, 1957 and 1960 with Kutis; National Amateur Cup titles in 1952 with Raiders and 1956 through 1960 with Kutis, and a U.S. Open Cup title in 1957 with Kutis.
Mendoza played four full internationals for the United States, all World Cup qualifiers. The first of those was against Haiti in 1954 and the last against Canada in 1957. He also was a member of the United States teams at the 1952 and 1956 Olympic Games.

Shep Messing. Flamboyant NASL-era goalkeeper who succeeded in attracting considerable attention to soccer with off-the-field activities. A Harvard graduate, Messing wrote an autobiographical book, The Education of an American Soccer Player, that told much of life as a pro soccer player.
Messing had quite a bit of on-the-field success, too. He never won a full international cap, but he was a goalkeeper for the United States at the 1972 Olympic Games in West Germany. He played seven seasons in the NASL, and was the goalkeeper for the New York Cosmos in 1976 and their NASL title season of 1977. Messing played 119 NASL regular-season games and nine NASL playoff games. He broke into the NASL with the Cosmos in 1973 and '74, and then played for the Boston Minutemen in 1975 and part of '76, the Cosmos again in part of 1976 and all of '77, the Oakland Stompers in 1978 and the Rochester Lancers in 1979.
Messing also played extensively indoors, including eight seasons in the Major Indoor Soccer League.

Carlos Metidieri. Winger who was the only man to win the NASL's Most Valuable Player award twice.
Metidieri played six seasons in the NASL, for the Los Angeles Wolves in 1968, the Rochester Lancers from 1970 to 1973 and the Boston Minutemen in 1974. He played 129 NASL regular-season games and eight NASL playoff games, scoring 62 goals.
Metidieri was named the NASL's Most Valuable Player in 1970, when he won the league title with Rochester, and again in 1971, when he led the league in goals with 20. He was a first-team NASL all-star in both those seasons, and a second-team selection in 1972.
Metidieri played two full international games for the United States, both in 1973.

Janusz Michallik. A midfielder who played in the U.S. national team early in the 1990s and in MLS later in that decade.
Michallik, who was born in Poland, played 44 full internationals for the United States, the first against Uruguay in 1991 and the last against Estonia in 1994. He later played three seasons in MLS, for Columbus and New England, appearing in 53 MLS regular-season games and one MLS playoff game. Before his time in the national team, he had played two seasons in the NPSL.

Peter Millar. A U.S. national team and American Soccer League forward in the 1960s and '70s.
Millar played 13 full internationals for the United States between 1968 and '72, including eight World Cup qualifiers in 1968, 1969 and 1972. His first full international for the United States was against Israel in 1968 and his last against Mexico in 1972. He scored eight goals in those 13 games, including three in a World Cup qualifier against Bermuda in 1968.
Millar played eight seasons in the ASL and the Eastern Conference between 1960 and '69 for New York Inter and Boca Juniors, three seasons in the German-American Soccer League of New York between 1969 and '72 for New York InterGiuliana and one season in the North American Soccer League, 1969, for the Baltimore Bays. He was the ASL most valuable player in 1962 and 1963.

Charlie Mitchell. Defender who was a mainstay of the Rochester Lancers, playing for that team for six seasons in the NASL after three earlier seasons with the Lancers in the American Soccer League.
Mitchell played 10 seasons in the NASL, with Rochester from 1970 to 1975, the New York Cosmos in 1976, Team Hawaii in 1977, the Tulsa Roughnecks in 1978 and the Toronto Blizzard in 1979. He played 206 NASL regular-season games and nine NASL playoff games.
Mitchell won an NASL championship with Rochester in 1970, and was named a first-team NASL all-star that season. He was a second-team NASL all-star in 1971 and '75, and an honorable-mention selection in 1972 and '74.

Ilija Mitic. One of the top goalscorers in the early years of the North American Soccer League and a four-time NASL all-star who played one game for the U.S. national team.
Mitic played eight seasons in the NASL, for the Oakland Clippers in 1968, the Dallas Tornado in 1969, '73, '74 and part of '75, and the San Jose Earthquakes in part of 1975 and all of 1976, '77 and '78. He scored 93 goals in the 154 NASL games that he played (147 regular-season games and seven playoff games) and at one time was the league's leading all-time goalscorer. Mitic played professionally for Partizan Belgrade and OFK Belgrade in his native Yugoslavia before coming to the United States in 1967.
Mitic, who also played for Oakland in the 1967 NPSL season, may have had his best year in 1968, when he scored 18 goals in 28 games for Oakland and was chosen to the inaugural NASL all-star team. He also was named a first-team all-star in 1969, 1973 and 1974. Mitic was a forward in his first two NASL seasons and a midfielder later.

Nelsi Morais. Brazilian midfielder who played five seasons for the New York Cosmos during their peak years.
Morais, who had been a teammate of Pele at Santos, first played for the Cosmos during their postseason tour in the fall of 1975. He then stayed with the team for the next five NASl seasons, including playing in the Cosmos NASL championship game victory in 1977. He also was a member of the Cosmos squad during their NASL championship seasons of 1978 and 1980. He played 64 NASL regular-season games and 14 NASL playoff games.

Victor Moreland. A midfielder who was a star of the Tulsa Roughnecks’ NASL champion team in 1983.
Moreland , a native of Northern Ireland, played six seasons in the NASL, all of them for Tulsa. He appeared in 164 NASL regular-season games and 13 NASL playoff games. After retiring from the NASL, he played seven seasons in the MISL..

Kaizer Motaung. The first of the many excellent South African players in the North American Soccer League.
Motaung, a forward, played five seasons in the NASL, for the Atlanta Chiefs in 1968, '69 and '71, and the Denver Dynamo in 1974 and '75. In those five seasons, he played 98 NASL regular-season games and nine NASL playoff games, scoring 48 goals.
Motaung won an NASL championship in 1968 with Atlanta and also played in the title game in 1971. He was a first-team NASL all-star in 1971. Motaung had played for Orlando Pirates in South Africa before moving to the NASL, and later founded Kaizer Chiefs, another top South African club.

Steve Moyers. The leading American-born goalscorer in the North American Soccer League. Moyers scored 67 goals in his eight NASL seasons, of which he spent four with the California Surf, three with the New York Cosmos and one with the St. Louis Stars.
Moyers, who ranks 17th on the all-time list of NASL goalscorers, scored those goals in a total of 173 NASL games (166 regular-season and seven playoff). He broke into the league with St. Louis in 1977, and played for California from 1978 to '81 and New York from 1982 to '84. He scored 13 goals for the Cosmos' NASL champion team in 1982, and also had 15 for the Cosmos in 1983 and 14 for California in 1980. He was an NASL North American all-star in 1980, '81, '82 and '83, and played one season in the Major Indoor Soccer League.
Moyers played seven games in the U.S. national team, the first against Luxembourg in 1980 and the last against Italy in 1984. He played three World Cup qualifiers against Canada and Mexico in 1980 and all three of the United States games in the 1984 Olympics. Both of his two national-team goals came in the same game, the 2-1 win over Mexico in 1980 that was the United States' first against that rival in 46 years.

Bruce Murray. A midfielder and forward who was one of the leading stars of the U.S. national team in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
When Murray retired from the national team in 1993, he was its all-time leader in both caps and goals. Between his first full international appearance, against England in 1985, and his last, against Venezuela in 1993, he played 86 games for the United States, scoring 21 goals.
Murray played in all of the United States' games in the 1990 World Cup, including all 10 qualifiers during 1988 and 1989 and the three games in the finals in Italy in 1990. He scored the United States goal against Austria in its last game of the World Cup finals. He also played in all of the United States' games in its victorious efforts in the 1991 CONCACAF Gold Cup and the 1992 U.S. Cup, as well as playing for the United States in the 1988 Olympic Games, the 1992 Intercontinental Cup and the 1993 Copa America.
Murray played several seasons in the APSL for the Washington Diplomats and the Maryland Bays.

Glenn Myernick. A defender who played eight seasons in the North American Soccer League.
Myernick played in the NASL from 1976 to 1984 for the Dallas Tornado, the Portland Timbers and the Tampa Bay Rowdies, appearing during that time in 163 NASL regular-season games and five NASL playoff games. He also played one season in the Major Indoor Soccer League. He played 10 full internationals for the United States, the first against El Salvador in 1977 and the last against France in 1979.
Myernick later was a head coach in Major League Soccer for four seasons.

Johan Neeskens. Dutch midfielder who played six seasons in the North American Soccer League, all of them for the New York Cosmos.
Neeskens, who had played for Ajax and Barcelona in Europe and for Holland in the 1974 and 1978 World Cups, played for the Cosmos from 1979 to 1984. He was a member of the Cosmos' NASL champion teams in 1980 and 1982, but did not. play in the final. He was an NASL runnerup with the Cosmos in 1981.
Neeskens, a rugged player known as one of the toughest midfield ballwinners in the history of soccer, was a NASL all-star four times, a first-team selection in 1979 and '84, and a second-team choice in 1980 and '82, He played 94 NASL regular-season games and 13 NASL playoff games.
After his NASL career, Neeskens played one season in the United Soccer League and one season in the Major Indoor Soccer League.

John "Harp" O'Connell. American Soccer League and U.S. national team defender in the 1940s and '50s.
O'Connell played 10 seasons in the ASL between 1946 and '56 for Brooklyn Wanderers, New York Americans and New York Hakoah. He was named the ASL most valuable player in 1948 and 1949, both years when he was with New York Americans, and was a star of the New York Americans team that won the "double" in 1954, taking both the ASL and U.S. Open Cup championships.
O'Connell played four full internationals for the United States, including two World Cup qualifiers against Mexico in 1954 and the game against Scotland before 107,765 in Glasgow in 1952.

John Oliver. The American Soccer League most valuable player in 1957.
Oliver played six seasons in the ASL between 1952 and 1958 for Philadelphia Americans and Uhrik Truckers. He won three ASL championships, in 1955, 1956 and 1958, all with Uhrik.

Phil Parkes. A goalkeeper who was a key member of the Vancouver Whitecaps’ NASL champion team in 1979.
Parkes, a native of England who had played for Wolverhampton Wanders there before moving to North America, played six seasons in the NASL, for Vancouver, Chicago, San Jose and Toronto. He addition to winning a league title in with Vancouver 1979, he played part of the season for the Chicago Sting team that went onto win the NASL championship in 1981.
Parkes who played 129 NASL regular-season games and 14 NASL playoff games, was first-team NASL all-star in 1979 and 1980.

Steve Pecher. Defender who played in the North American Soccer League and captained the U.S. national team in World Cup qualifying.
Pecher played five seasons in the NASL between 1976 and 1980, all for Dallas. He played 129 NASL regular-season games and 10 NASL playoff games. He was named an NASL North American all-star in 1978, '79 and '80.
Pecher played 17 full internationals for the United States, the first against Canada in 1976 and the last against Mexico in 1980. He played seven World Cup qualifying games, four in 1976 and three in 1980, and the United States' upset of Hungary in a 1979 friendly. Pecher was captain of the U.S. national team in its World Cup qualifiers against Canada and Mexico in 1980.
After retiring from the NASL, Pecher played nine seasons in the Major Indoor Soccer League.

Fred Pepper. A forward on the powerhouse Bethlehem Steel teams of 1920 and just before.
Pepper played on all four of the Bethlehem teams that won the U.S. Open Cup before 1920, helping to hoist that trophy in 1915, 1916, 1918 and 1919. Those weren’t the only times he played in the Open Cup final, as he also did, on the losing side, in 1917. In that same period, Pepper played on Bethlehem’s AFA Cup-winners in 1916, 1917, 1918 and 1919.
Pepper played three seasons in the National Association Foot Ball League, all for Bethlehem, including league champion teams in 1919 and 1920. He then played three seasons in the original American Soccer League, for Harrison, Fall River and New York Giants. He played 40 games in the ASL.

Jim Pollihan. Forward who played in the North American Soccer League and the U.S. national team.
Pollihan played five seasons in the NASL between 1976 and 1980, all of them for the Rochester Lancers. In that time, he played 131 NASL regular-season games and seven NASL playoff games.
Pollihan played 15 full internationals for the United States, the first against Canada in 1976 and the last against France in 1979. Included among those international appearances were four World Cup qualifiers for the United States in 1976 Pollihan played nine seasons in the Major Indoor Soccer League.

Brian Quinn. Midfielder who starred for many years in the Major Indoor Soccer League and broke into the U.S. national team late in his career.
Quinn played eight season in the MISL, between 1984 and 1992, all of them with the San Diego Sockers. In six of those season, the Sockers won the MISL title. Quinn, who was born in Northern Ireland, gained a place in the national team after becoming a United States citizen in 1991. Between 1991 and '94, he played 48 full internationals for the United States, including the 1991 CONCACAF Gold Cup, when the United States won its first major international championship, and the 1992 Intercontinental Cup in Saudi Arabia.
Before moving his career indoors in 1984, Quinn had played four seasons in the North American Soccer League, for Los Angeles, Montreal and San Diego. He played 96 NASL regular-season games and 13 NASL playoff games.

Andy Racz. The American Soccer League most valuable player in 1960 and one of the stars of the Philadelphia Ukrainian Nationals dynasty in the early 1960s.
Racz played six seasons in the ASL between 1957 and 1964, all for Ukrainian Nationals. He won three ASL championships with Ukrainian Nationals, in 1961, 1963 and 1964, and three U.S. Open Cup titles, in 1960, 1961 and 1963.

Sarah Rafanelli. A forward who was a member of the United States team at the 1995 Women's World Cup.
Rafanelli played 34 full international games for the United States, the first against Norway in 1992 and the last against Australia in 1995. She played in two of the United States' five games at the 1995 Women's World Cup in Sweden, as well as three of the United States' four games in the qualifying competition for that World Cup.

Steve Ralbovsky. Midfielder who starred in the North American Soccer League and the U.S. national team.
Ralbovsky played six seasons in the NASL, beginning in 1977. He played for the Chicago Sting in 1977, the Colorado Caribou in 1978, the Tulsa Roughnecks in part of 1979 and all of '82 and the Fort Lauderdale Strikers in part of 1979 and all of '80 and '81. He played 117 NASL regular-season games and 11 NASL playoff games.
Ralbovsky played 15 full internationals for the United States, the first against Mexico in 1976 and the last against Portugal in 1978. Those international appearances included three World Cup qualifiers in 1976, when he was with the Los Angeles Skyhawks of the American Soccer League.

Bob Rigby. Goalkeeper who was one of the best American players in the North American Soccer League, playing more NASL games than any other American.
Rigby played 12 seasons in the NASL, and three in the MISL. His only NASL championship was in the first of those seasons, 1973, when he was the goalkeeper for the Philadelphia Atoms as they won the league title. That season made a star of Rigby, who grew up in the Philadelphia area and played college soccer for East Stroudsburg State. In his 12 seasons, Rigby played 237 NASL games (217 regular season and 20 playoff), four more than Arnie Mausser for the honor of most NASL appearances among both goalkeepers and Americans.
Rigby played for the Atoms from 1973 to '75, and subsequently played for the New York Cosmos, Los Angeles Aztecs, Philadelphia Fury, Montreal Manic and Golden Bay Earthquakes. He was a second-team NASL all-star in 1973 and '74, and had one of his best seasons in 1981, when he played 38 games for Montreal. His international career was relatively brief. He played six games for the United States in 1973, '74 and '75.

Dick Roberts. Forward who was the leading goalscorer in the American Soccer League in 1952.
Roberts won that scoring title in the midst of a five-season career in the ASL, during which played for Kearny Scots and Brooklyn Hispano from 1949 to 1955. He was an ASL runnerup three times, in 1951 and 1952 with Kearny Scots and 1955 with Hispano. His only appearance with the U.S. national team was against Scotland in Glasgow in 1952.

Kyle Rote Jr. Dallas Tornado forward who drew considerable attention to soccer in the mid-1970s, promoted as a home-grown American star the equal of European and South American soccer heroes.
Rote was the son of an American football icon, former Southern Methodist and NFL star Kyle Rote. He had himself been a major-college football player before turning to soccer. During his years as an NASL star, Rote competed several times the made-for-television Superstars competition among athletes from various sports and won that event in 1974, ’76 and ’77.
Rote played six seasons in the NASL, from 1973 to ’78 with Dallas and in 1979 with Houston, playing 142 regular-season games and eight playoff games, and scoring 44 goals. He led the league in scoring in 1973, when he also was chosen as the league's rookie of the year, and was an NASL North American all-star in 1978. He played five full international games for the United States in 1973, ’74 and ’75.

Bill Sheppell. A forward who played in the American Soccer League, German-American Soccer League of New York and U.S. national team in the 1940s and '50s.
Sheppell played four seasons in the ASL between 1943 and '47 for Kearny Celtic and seven seasons in the GASL between 1947 and '54 for Newark Germans. He played 10 full internationals for the United States, including eight World Cup qualifiers in 1949 and 1954. The first of those international appearances was against Scotland in 1949, and the last against Haiti in 1954.
Sheppell was a member of the United States team at the 1952 Olympic Games and won a Lewis Cup championship in 1944 with Kearny Celtic.

Chappie Sheppell. Longtime American Soccer League player who was the ASL’s leading goalscorer in 1943.
Sheppell played 16 seasons in the ASL, between 1934 and 1950, for Kearny Scots and Kearny Irish. He was an ASL runnerup in 1950 with Kearny Irish.

Derek Smethurst. One of the stars of the Tampa Bay Rowdies teams that were among the NASL's best in the 1970s.
Smethurst, a South African forward who had played several seasons in the English League, moved to the NASL for the start of the Rowdies' inaugural season in 1975, a year in which he helped them to the NASL title. Over the next three seasons, Smethurst scored a total of 59 goals for Tampa Bay.
Smethurst played six seasons in the NASL, for Tampa Bay in 1975, '76, '77 and part of '78, the San Diego Sockers in part of '78 and the Seattle Sounders in 1979 and '80. He played 118 NASL regular-season games and eight NASL playoff games, scoring 75 goals. He was a first-team NASL all-star in 1977, a second-team selection in 1976 and an honorable mention selection in 1975.

Jomo Sono. South African forward who scored 36 goals during his career in the North American Soccer League.
Sono, who previously had starred for Orlando Pirates in South Africa, played six seasons in the NASL. He joined the New York Cosmos before the 1977 season, and then played for the Colorado Caribou in 1978, the Atlanta Chiefs in 1979 and the Toronto Blizzard in 1980, '81 and '82. His best season was 1981, a year before he was forced to retire because of injuries, when he scored 14 goals for Toronto.
Sono, who played 128 NASL regular season games and four NASL playoff games, was an NASL honorable mention all-star in 1980 and '81. He won one NASL championship, with New York in 1977.

Joe Speca. A forward who played in the American Soccer League, the North American Soccer League and the U.S. national team.
Speca played five seasons in the ASL between 1957 and 1967 for two Baltimore teams, Pompei and St. Gerard’s. He won an ASL championship in 1967 with St. Gerard’s. He then played one seasons in the NASL, for the Baltimore Bays. He played nine NASL regular-season games.
Speca played three full internationals for the United States, the first a World Cup qualifier against Mexico in 1960 and the last against Israel in 1968.

Arno Steffenhagen. Midfielder who was one of the key players in the strong Chicago Sting teams of the early 1980s.
Steffenhagen, who had played for good European teams like Hertha Berlin, Ajax Amsterdam and Hamburg, moved to the NASL in 1978. He played for Chicago from 1978 through 1982, and then the Toronto Blizzard and Vancouver Whitecaps in 1983. He played a total of 119 NASL regular-season games and 16 NASL playoff games, scoring 64 goals. Twenty of those goals came during the 1981 season, when he helped Chicago to the NASL championship.
Steffenhagen was named an NASL all-star in 1981 and '82 and an second-team NASL all-star in 1980.

Mike Stojanovic. A goalscoring forward who flourished with the Rochester Lancers after moving over from a smaller Canadian league.
Stojanovic played seven seasons in the NASL, with Rochester from 1976 to '80, the San Diego Sockers in 1981 and part of '82, and the San Jose Earthquakes in part of 1982. In his 189 games (178 regular season and nine playoff), he scored 84 goals. He got 23 of those for San Diego in 1981, when he was named an NASL North American all-star.
Stojanovic, who was born in Yugoslavia, played 14 full international games for Canada, scoring five goals. He played one season in the Major Indoor Soccer League.

John Stollmeyer. A midfielder who starred in the U.S. national team during its rise in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Stollmeyer played 31 full internationals for the United States, the first against Canada in 1986 and the last against East Germany in 1990. Those 31 included nine of the 10 World Cup qualifiers that the United States played in 1988 and 1989, one of them the famous victory in Trinidad in November 1989, and one of the United States' games at the World Cup in Italy in 1990.
In addition to playing in the 1990 World Cup, Stollmeyer also was a member of the United States team at the 1988 Olympic Games in Korea. He played two seasons in the Major Indoor Soccer League and one season in the American Professional Soccer League.

Wolfgang Suhnholz. An outstanding North American Soccer League midfielder in the late 1970s.
Suhnholz played six seasons in the NASL between 1975 and '80. He played for the Boston Minutemen in 1975, the Toronto Metros-Croatia in 1976, the Los Vegas Quicksilvers in 1977, the Los Angeles Aztecs in part of 1978 and the California Surf in part of 1978 and all of '79 and '80. Suhnholz played 90 NASL regular-season games and six NASL playoff games. He won an NASL championship in 1976 with Toronto and was an first-team NASL all-star in 1977 and an honorable mention selection in 1975 and '76.

John Traina. A midfielder who was one of the leading top St. Louis players in the 1950s and early 1960s.
Traina played nine seasons in top St. Louis leagues, the St. Louis Major League, the St. Louis Municipal League, the Khoury League and the St. Louis Soccer League between 1951 and 1960s for Simpkins, Patterson and Kutis. He won league championships in 1955, 1956 and 1957 with Simpkins and in 1960 with Kutis.
Traina played five full internationals for the United States, the first against Mexico in 1957 and the last against Colombia in 1961. Those included two World Cup qualifiers in 1960.

Roy Turner. A midfielder who played 11 seasons in the North American Soccer League, all but one of them for the Dallas Tornado.
Turner, who had played for Philadelphia and Toronto in the National Professional Soccer League in 1967, joined the Cleveland Stokers for the initial NASL season, in 1968. After one season in Cleveland, he moved to Dallas, where he played until he retired in 1978. He won an NASL championship with Dallas in 1971 and played on the losing side in the 1973 final. He was named a second-team NASL all-star in 1970, and was an honorable mention selection in 1971 and 1973.
Turner, who made two appearances in the United States national team, both in 1973, played 187 NASL regular-season games and 15 NASL playoff games.

Perry Van der Beck. A North American Soccer League midfielder and defender who was one of the leading players in the U.S. national team in the 1980s.
Van der Beck, one of the top Americans in the NASL, played seven NASL seasons, six of those for the Tampa Bay Rowdies. He joined Tampa Bay for the 1978 season and played in the NASL through the league's end. He played 117 NASL regular-season games and NASL eight playoff games and was a member of the Tampa Bay teams that reached the NASL championship games in 1978 and 1979. In the 1980 season, he started every one of Tampa Bay's 36 games and was an NASL North American all-star.
Van der Beck played 23 full internationals for the United States, the first against France in 1979 and the last against England in 1985. He was a member of the U.S. team that upset Hungary in 1979 and played in the qualifying rounds of both the 1982 and 1986 World Cups.

Carl Valentine. Winger who starred in both the North American Soccer League and the Canadian national team.
Valentine played six seasons in the NASL, between 1979 and 1984, all of them with the Vancouver Whitecaps. He appeared in 165 NASL regular-season games and 17 NASL playoff games, scoring 48 goals, and won an NASL championship in 1979 with the Whitecaps.
Valentine, who was born in England and later became a Canadian citizen, played all three of Canada's games at the 1986 World Cup. He played in the English League both before and after his NASL years, and also played six seasons in the MISL.

Julie Veee. One of the first American citizens to play professionally in Europe, a star of the U.S. national team in the 1970s and a longtime star of both the North American Soccer League and the Major Indoor Soccer League.
Veee played four games in the U.S. national team, the first three of which were World Cup qualifiers against Mexico and Canada in 1976. He also played for the U.S. national indoor team at the end of his career, when it finished third in the first FIFA world indoor championships in 1989.
Veee, who was born in Hungary as Gyula Visnyei, played seven seasons in the NASL, interrupted for one season, 1976-77, that he spent with Standard Liege in the first division in Belgium. Veee played for the Los Angeles Aztecs in 1975, the San Jose Earthquakes in 1976 and the San Diego Sockers from 1978 to '82. He scored 39 goals in 198 NASL games (167 regular season and 31 playoff). In the MISL, where he played six seasons, he scored 241 goals in 258 games, was a first-team all-star in 1983 and won league titles with New York in 1980 and San Diego in 1983, '86 and '88.

Greg Villa. Forward in the North American Soccer League and the U.S. national team during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Villa played six seasons in the NASL between 1977 and 1983. He played for the Minnesota Kicks in 1977, '78 and part of '79, the Tulsa Roughnecks in part of 1979, the Fort Lauderdale Strikers in 1980 and Team America in 1983. He played 50 NASL regular-season games and six NASL playoff games.
Villa played 18 full internationals for the United States, the first against El Salvador in 1977 and the last against Mexico in 1980. He played two World Cup qualifiers for the United States, both in 1980.
Villa played six seasons in the Major Indoor Soccer League.

Pito Villanon. A two-time American Soccer League scoring champion.
Villanon, a forward from Cuba, played 11 seasons in the ASL between 1948 and 1958, all for Brookhattan. He was an ASL runnerup in 1954 and a U.S. Open Cup runnerup in 1948, and won ASL goal scoring titles in 1949 and 1953..

Herman Wecke. One of the stars of the Kutis dynasty in St. Louis in the 1950s.
Wecke played eight seasons in the St. Louis Major League, the St. Louis Municipal League and the St. Louis League between 1951 and 1960 for Zenthoefer Furs, Raiders and Kutis, winning league championships in 1951 with Zenthoefer, 1952 with Raiders and 1953, 1954, 1957 and 1960 with Kutis. He won the U.S. Open Cup in 1957 with Kutis and a string of National Amateur Cup titles with Kutis, in addition to the National Amateur Cup that he won with Raiders in 1952.
Wecke played six full internationals for the United States, the first against Haiti in 1954 and the last against Canada in 1957. Those six included five World Cup qualifiers in 1954 and 1957.

Roy Wegerle. A forward who became a key member of the United States national team in the 1990s after having made a name for himself with several England pro clubs.
Wegerle, who was born in South Africa and went to college in the United States, played in the final season of the North American Soccer League in 1984. After two seasons in the Major Indoor Soccer League, he went to England, where he played for Chelsea, Luton Town, Queens Park Rangers, Coventry City and Blackburn Rovers. He scored more than 80 goals in nine English seasons.
After becoming an American citizen, he made his debut in the U.S. national team in 1992, and played 41 full internationals for the United States over the next seven years. He played four games for the United States in the 1994 World Cup and two in the 1998 World Cup. Wegerle moved from the English Premier League to MLS at its start in 1996 and played three MLS seasons, for Colorado, D.C. and Tampa Bay.

Steve Wegerle. The oldest of three South African brothers who played in the North American Soccer League.
Wegerle, a forward, played eight seasons in the NASL after being purchased by the Tampa Bay Rowdies from Dutch powerhouse Feyenoord. He played for Tampa Bay from 1977 through '80 and part of '81, for the New York Cosmos in part of 1981 and all of '82, for the Fort Lauderdale Strikers in 1983 and for Tampa Bay again in 1984. He played 195 NASL regular-season games and 31 NASL playoff games, scoring 40 goals. He won an NASL championship in 1982 with New York, and was an NASL all-star five times, a second-team selection in 1977, '78 and '80 and an honorable mention choice in 1979 and '81.
Wegerle played two seasons in the Major Indoor Soccer League. His brother Geoff played two seasons for Oakland and Toronto and his brother Roy one season for Tampa Bay.

Art Welch. Jamaican winger who was one of the leading stars in the early seasons of the North American Soccer League.
Welch played 10 seasons in the NASL, beginning in the league's opening season. He played for the Baltimore Bays in 1968 and '69, the Atlanta Chiefs in 1970 through '72, the Atlanta Apollos in 1973, the San Jose Earthquakes in 1974 and '75, the Vancouver Whitecaps and the San Diego Jaws in 1976 and the Washington Diplomats in 1977. He played 187 NASL regular-season games and four NASL playoff games, and scored 40 goals. He was a first-team NASL all-star twice, in 1969 and 1970, and a second-team selection in 1971. He was an NASL runnerup in 1971.
Welch, who had played in the first division in Jamaica before coming to the United States for the NPSL season of 1967, later played one season in the Major Indoor Soccer League after retiring from the NASL.

Lou “Sonny” Yacopec. Defender who was a star of the Harmarville powerhouse in the 1950s.
Yacopec played 12 season for Harmarville in the Keystone League of Western Pennsylvania, winning league titles in 1951, 1953 and 1957, and the U.S. Open Cup in 1952 and 1956 (he also was a U.S. Open Cup runneup in 1953). He played two full internationals for the United States, in 1949 and 1957, the latter a World Cup qualifier.

Bob Yingling. Played 11 seasons in the ASL between 1939 and 1955 for Kearny Scots, Brookhattan, New York Americans, Philadelphia Americans and Philadelphia Uhrik Truckers. ASL champion in 1940 and 1941 with Kearny Scots and 1955 with Philadelphia Uhrik Truckers.