Capturing History
Pursuing my lifelong interests in soccer and history to contribute to the collection of history related to the United States National Teams.
American Goals
The Story of U.S. Men’s National Team Told By Those Who Scored the Goal
In 2018, I began an attempt to expand my childhood autograph collection from 1979 to include the signatures of every USMNT goal scorer.
The stories accompanying each autograph spawned a project to collect a chronological history of the USMNT told through the interviews of 80-90 living goal scorers.
You can see the current collection of autographs here.
The current list of interviews and the representative year in USMNT history are listed below.
1953 Otto Decker
1954 Efrain Chacurian
1957 Jim Murphy
1960 Carl Fister
1965 Walt Schmotolocha
1968 Sigi Strizl
1968 Peter Millar
1972 Gene Geimer
1972 Willy Roy
1973 Al Trost
1974 Denny Vaninger
1975 Henry McCully
1976 Boris Bandov
1976 Juli Veee
1977 Gary Etherington
1979 Mark Liveric
1979 Angelo di Bernardo
1980 Rick Davis
1983 Chico Borja
1984 Erhardt Kapp
1984 Jacques Ladouceur
1985 Perry van der Beck
1988 Rob Ryerson
1988 Brian Bliss
1989 Bruce Murray
1989 Hugo Perez
1990 John Harkes
1990 Peter Vermes
1991 Dante Washington
1991 Brian Quinn
1992 Roy Wegerle
1992 Yari Allnutt
1993 Thomas Dooley
1994 Marcelo Balboa
1994 Mike Sorber
1995 Alexi Lalas
1996 Eric Wynalda
1997 Eddie Pope
1997 Tab Ramos
1998 Frankie Hedjuk
1999 Tony Sanneh
1999 Paul Bravo
2000 John O Brien
2001 Josh Wolff
2005 Steve Ralston
2006 Steve Cherundolo
2006 Brian Ching
2007 Jimmy Conrad
2007 Benny Feilhaber
2008 Freddy Adu
2009 Sacha Kljestan
2009 Charlie Davies
2009 Jonathan Bornstein
2011 Juan Agudelo
2012 Herculez Gomez
2013 Stuart Holden
2013 Graham Zusi
2014 Chris Wondolowski
2014 Kyle Beckerman
2015 Mix Diskerud
2016 Bobby Wood
2016 Gyasi Zardes
2017 Jozy Altidore
2020 Sebastian Lletget
Society for American Soccer History
SASH is a wonderful resource for U.S. National Teams’ history. The society’s Mission Statement is:
To stimulate, promote, and coordinate interest in the historical study of soccer in the United States.
To advance scholarship in the study and teaching of various aspects of soccer history.