Ridge Mahoney of Soccer America writes of the legacy of US soccer pioneer Harry Keough, who passed
away yesterday.
The first time I talked with Harry Keough about the 1950 World Cup defeat of England, three and
a half decades had passed, yet the details still swirled in his mind. Sights and sounds and smells
of the stadium in Belo Horizonte, Brazil; the numbing boredom of a long boat trip from New York to
Brazil that took the team to the competition; the joking rivalry between the St.
Former U.S. defender Harry Keough, who passed away Tuesday, was inducted into the National Soccer
Hall of Fame in 1976.
The U.S. Soccer community mourns the loss of former U.S. defender and National Soccer Hall of
Famer Harry Keough, who passed away Tuesday at the age of 84.
