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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.
Preview: For those reading this (and that'd be you right now), this post is about more
than semantics in calling our sport "soccer" instead of "football". It is about defining our own
history with the sport and our own identity within the global game.
In the last few weeks we've been reading David Wangerin's (author of "Soccer in a Football World")
"Distant Corners" which chronicles the emergence of soccer in the United States.
I find it interesting that not even Eddie Hawkins was really aware, for a while, of his status as
the first American-born black man on the USMNT.
Hawkins beat Dave Cayemitte there by only minutes. Of course, others were nationalized into the
team first - notably Haitian Joe Gaetjens, who scored against England in 1950 at the World Cup.
I find it interesting that not even Eddie Hawkins was really aware, for a while, of his status as
the first American-born black man on the USMNT.
Hawkins beat Dave Cayemitte there by only minutes. Of course, others were nationalized into the
team first - notably Haitian Joe Gaetjens, who scored against England in 1950 at the World Cup.
