History of the United States men's national soccer team
Association | United States Soccer Federation |
---|---|
Most caps | Cobi Jones (164) |
Top scorer | Landon Donovan Clint Dempsey (57) |
FIFA ranking | |
Highest | 4[1] (April 2006) |
Lowest | 36 (July 2012) |
First international | |
Sweden 2–3 United States (Stockholm, Sweden; August 20, 1916)[2][3] | |
World Cup | |
Appearances | 10 (first in 1930) |
Best result | Third place, 1930[4] |
CONCACAF Gold Cup | |
Appearances | 14 (first in 1985) |
Best result | Champions, 1991, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2013, 2017, 2021 |
The history of the United States men's national soccer team began with that team's first international match in 1916. Highlights from the team's early history include reaching the semifinals of the 1930 World Cup then FIFA recognized third place for the United States in 1986, and defeating England in a remarkable upset in the 1950 World Cup.
The United States men's national soccer team improved during the 1980s, and played in every World Cup from 1990 to 2014. The team's best performances in modern history include reaching the quarterfinals of the
Early history: 1885–1904
In 1885, the United States and Canada played at Newark, New Jersey, making it the first international match held outside of the United Kingdom; the Canadians won the match 1–0. The following year, a fixture at the same venue resulted in the U.S. winning after scoring the only goal of the game. Neither match was officially recognized.
Thirty years later, on August 20, 1916, the United States played its first official international match under the auspices of
The U.S. won both the silver and bronze medals in men's soccer at the
1930s: Third place at the first World Cup
In the 1930 World Cup, the U.S. won their first match in World Cup history, beating Belgium 3–0 at the Estadio Gran Parque Central in Montevideo, Uruguay. The match occurred simultaneously with another across town at the Estadio Pocitos where France defeated Mexico.
In the next match, the United States again won 3–0, this time against Paraguay. For many years, FIFA credited Bert Patenaude with the first and third goals and his teammate Tom Florie with the second.[6] Other sources described the second goal as having been scored by Patenaude[7][8] or by Paraguayan Aurelio González.[9] In November 2006, FIFA announced that it had accepted evidence from "various historians and football fans" that Patenaude scored all three goals, and was thus the first person to score a hat trick in a World Cup finals tournament.[10]
Having reached the semifinals with two wins, the American side lost 6–1 to Argentina. Using the overall tournament records, FIFA lists the U.S. as finishing in third place, above fellow semifinalist Yugoslavia. This is still the team's highest World Cup finish, and the highest finish of any CONCACAF nation. Furthermore, it is the only time a national team from outside the traditional powerhouse regions of CONMEBOL (South America) and UEFA (Europe) have finished on the podium.
1950 World Cup: upset of England
In the
1950s–1970s
Despite the United States' relative success in early international tournaments, soccer remained a niche sport in the U.S. for many years. In the three decades after the 1950 World Cup, the only victories for the United States came against Haiti, Bermuda, Honduras, Canada, Poland, and China.
1980s
After the enthusiasm caused by the creation and rise of the North American Soccer League in the 1960s and 1970s, it seemed as though the U.S. men's national team would soon become a powerful force in world soccer. These hopes were not realized, however. The United States played only two international matches from 1981 to 1983.
To provide a more stable national team program and renew interest in the NASL, U.S. Soccer entered the national team into the league for the 1983 season as Team America. This team lacked the continuity and regularity of training that conventional clubs enjoy, and many players were unwilling to play for the team instead of their own clubs. Embarrassingly, Team America finished the season at the bottom of the league. U.S. Soccer cancelled this experiment, and the national team was withdrawn from the NASL.
U.S. Soccer targeted the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California and the 1986 World Cup as means of rebuilding the national team and their fan base. The International Olympic Committee declared that teams from outside Europe and South America could field full senior teams, including professionals (until then, the amateur-only rule had heavily favored socialist countries from Eastern Europe whose players were professionals in all but name). The U.S. had a very strong showing at the tournament, beating Costa Rica, tying Egypt, losing only to favorite Italy and finishing 1–1–1 but didn't make the second round, losing to Egypt on a tiebreaker (both had three points, but Egypt had scored one more goal than the United States).
The United States bid to host the 1986 World Cup, after Colombia withdrew from hosting due to economic concerns. However, Mexico beat the U.S. and Canada to host the tournament, despite concerns that the tournament would have to be moved again because of a major earthquake that hit Mexico shortly before the tournament.
By the end of 1984, the NASL had folded and there was no senior outdoor soccer league operating in the United States., moved overseas, primarily to Europe.
In the last game of the qualifying tournament for the 1986 World Cup, the U.S. needed only a draw against Costa Rica, whom the U.S. had beaten 3–0 in the Olympics the year before, to reach the final qualification group against Honduras and Canada. U.S. Soccer scheduled the game to be played at El Camino College in Torrance, California, an area with many Costa Rican expatriates, and marketed the game almost exclusively to the Costa Rican community, even providing Costa Rican folk dances as halftime entertainment.[2] A 35th-minute goal by Evaristo Coronado won the match for Costa Rica and kept the United States from reaching its first World Cup since 1950.[3]
In 1988, U.S. Soccer attempted to reimplement its national-team-as-club concept, offering contracts to national team players, to build an international team with something of a club ethos, while loaning them out to their club teams, saving U.S. Soccer the expense of their salaries. This brought many key veterans back to the team, while the success of the NASL a decade earlier had created an influx of talent from burgeoning grass-roots level clubs and youth programs. Thus U.S. Soccer sought to establish a more stable foundation for participation in the 1990 World Cup than had existed for previous tournaments.
1990s: Rebirth for American soccer
1990 World Cup
In 1988, FIFA named the United States hosts of the 1994 World Cup, but it did so under significant international criticism because of the perceived weakness of the national team and the lack of a professional outdoor league. This criticism diminished somewhat when a 1–0 win against Trinidad and Tobago, the U.S.'s first away win in nearly two years, in the last match of the 1989 CONCACAF Championship, earned the United States their first World Cup appearance in 40 years.
When the Americans qualified for the 1990 FIFA World Cup, the U.S. had no professional outdoor league, had not participated in World Cup play since 1950, and U.S. youth national team programs were only a decade old. With the U.S. set to host the 1994 FIFA World Cup, coach Bob Gansler and his assistants, Joe Machnik and Ralph Perez, selected a squad to compete at Italia 1990 and gain valuable World Cup experience for 1994.
Several older professionals who had played in the NASL, MISL, or semiprofessional leagues were not selected, including Rick Davis and Hugo Perez, who were recovering from serious injuries. With a young, inexperienced team, the U.S. lost their group stage matches to Czechoslovakia (5-1), Italy (1-0) and Austria (2-1).
Six players from the 1990 World Cup roster — Marcelo Balboa, Paul Caligiuri, John Harkes, Tony Meola, Tab Ramos, and Eric Wynalda — featured for the U.S. at USA 1994. All six started each match during group play, with Meola, Balboa, Caligiuri, and Ramos also starting the quarterfinal match against Brazil.
CONCACAF success
In March 1991, the United States won the North America Cup, tying Mexico 2–2 and beating Canada 2–0. This was followed in May by a 1–0 victory over Uruguay in the World Series of Soccer. The national team then went undefeated in the 1991 Gold Cup, beating Mexico 2–0 in the semifinals and Honduras 4–3 on penalty kicks after a 0–0 draw in the final. In 1992, the U.S. continued its run of success, taking the U.S. Cup with victories over Ireland and Portugal, followed by a draw with Italy.
Hosting the 1994 World Cup
Having qualified automatically as host, the U.S. opened their tournament schedule with a 1–1 draw against Switzerland in the Pontiac Silverdome in the suburbs of Detroit, the first World Cup game played indoors.[citation needed] In its second game, the U.S. faced Colombia, then ranked fourth in the world, at the Rose Bowl, and the United States won 2–1.[13] Despite a 1–0 loss to Romania in its final group game, the U.S. made it to the knockout round for the first time since 1930.
In the second round, the U.S. lost 1–0 to the eventual champion Brazil.[14]
1998 World Cup
In the 1998 World Cup in France, the team lost all of their three group matches, 0–2 to Germany, 1–2 to Iran, and 0–1 to Yugoslavia, and so finished in last place in its group and 32nd in the field of 32. Head coach Steve Sampson received much of the blame for the performance as a result of abruptly cutting team captain John Harkes, whom Sampson had named "Captain for Life" shortly before, as well as several other players who were instrumental to the qualifying effort, from the squad.[15] Sampson kept secret the reason for dropping Harkes for years, and it was not until February 2010 that Eric Wynalda publicly revealed in front of a gathering of news media that this was due to Harkes having an "inappropriate relationship" with Wynalda's wife at the time. Sampson confirmed this to be true a few days later.[16]
2000s: A power in CONCACAF
2002 FIFA World Cup: quarterfinalists
The United States won the
This set the stage for a Round 2 face-off with familiar continental rivals Mexico. The U.S. emerged victorious in the first World Cup showdown between the two old adversaries, 2–0. The team lost 1–0 to eventual runners-up Germany in the quarterfinals after a controversial no-call on a handball committed by the Germans thwarted an American goal. The United States followed up this success by winning their third Gold Cup, and second out of three, in 2005.
2006 FIFA World Cup: High hopes and disappointment
After finishing top of the
The United States opened their tournament with a 3–0 defeat to the Czech Republic. The team then drew 1–1 against Italy,[17] the only game which the Italians failed to win before the tournament final against France. The United States were then knocked out of the tournament after being beaten 2–1 by Ghana in their final group match.[18]
2010 FIFA World Cup cycle
MLS coach
From 2007 to 2009, the United States national team played 16 international friendly matches with a record of 9–4–3. Notable matches include a 2–0 victory over Mexico, a 0–0 tie with Argentina, 2–0 victories over Sweden in 2008, and 3–2 victory against Sweden in 2009.[21]
2007
The U.S. played in the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup.[22] The United States won their 3 games in the group stage to win their group. In the elimination round, the U.S. defeated Panama 2–1 in the quarterfinals. The United States then defeated Canada in the semifinals 2–1. This set up a championship match between the United States and Mexico at Soldier Field in Chicago. The United States trailed 1–0 at halftime. The United States scored in the second half with goals from Landon Donovan and Benny Feilhaber, and held on to win 2–1 for their second straight Gold Cup title.[21][23]
2009
The highlight of summer 2009 was the 2009 Confederations Cup, where the U.S. was drawn into Group B with Brazil, Egypt, and Italy. After losing 3–1 to Italy and 3–0 to Brazil, on the final day of group play the United States beat Egypt 3–0. This meant that the United States finished second in the group and reached the semifinals.[24] In the semifinals, the U.S. defeated
The United States hosted the 2009 Gold Cup. Coach Bob Bradley chose a side consisting of mostly reserves.[27] The U.S. concluded group play with two victories and a draw. In the quarterfinals, the United States defeated Panama 2–1, and in the semifinals the U.S. defeated Honduras 2–0. In the final the United States was beaten by Mexico 5–0, surrendering its 58-match unbeaten streak against CONCACAF opponents on U.S. soil. It was also the first home loss to Mexico since 1999.
2010 World Cup Qualification
In 2008, the team started 2010 World Cup Qualifications. The U.S. defeated Barbados in a 2-leg home-and-away competition. The U.S. won seven of eight matches in the
The U.S. began the Fourth round by beating Mexico 2–0, a loss that extended Mexico's losing streak against America on U.S. soil to 11 matches.[28] Next, the United States earned a 2–2 draw away to El Salvador.[29] Four days later, Jozy Altidore became the youngest U.S. player to score a hat-trick, and lead the United States to a 3–0 victory over Trinidad and Tobago.[30] Next, the U.S. traveled to Costa Rica, where they were defeated 3–1.[31] The United States rebounded three days later when they defeated Honduras 2–1. Near the end of the summer of 2009, the United States suffered a 2–1 loss to Mexico at Estadio Azteca. A few weeks later, the United States defeated El Salvador 2–1 at home. The next week, the U.S. beat Trinidad and Tobago 1–0. On October 10, 2009, the United States secured qualification to the World Cup with a 3–2 win over Honduras. Four days later, the U.S. secured first place in the Fourth round with a 2–2 draw against Costa Rica.
2010s
2010 FIFA World Cup
In the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the U.S. team were drawn in Group C against England, Slovenia and Algeria. After drawing against England (1–1) and Slovenia (2–2), the U.S. defeated Algeria through a Landon Donovan stoppage time goal, the first time the U.S. had won its group since 1930. In the round of 16, the U.S. was eliminated by Ghana, 2–1.[32] On FIFA's ranking of World Cup teams the U.S. finished in 12th place.
2011 Gold Cup
In preparation for the 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup, the U.S. played three friendlies; a 1–1 draw to Argentina, a 1–0 loss to Paraguay, and a 4–0 loss to Spain.
The United States hosted the
Following the loss, Bob Bradley was relieved of his duties as coach. On July 29, 2011, Jürgen Klinsmann was named as the national team's head coach.
2012
After their first six matches resulted in only a win and a draw against four losses, the U.S. embarked on a five-game winning streak. On February 29, 2012, the team won 1–0 in Italy, the first ever win for the United States over Italy. In 2012, the team began its World Cup qualification, and topped their third round qualification group with four wins, one draw and one defeat.
On June 2, 2013, the U.S. played a friendly against 2nd-ranked Germany in its Centennial celebration match at a sold out RFK Stadium in Washington D.C. The U.S. won 4–3. This was the USMNT's first win over a top 2 ranked team since the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup.
2013
On June 6, 2013, the U.S. beat Jamaica 2–1. On June 11, the U.S. beat Panama 2–0 at
On September 6, 2013, the 12 game winning streak came to an end when the U.S. lost to Costa Rica 3–1 at
2014 FIFA World Cup
For the 2014 FIFA World Cup, the U.S. was drawn into Group G, along with Ghana, Germany, and Portugal.[45] In game 1 the U.S. defeated Ghana 2–1. After Clint Dempsey scored the first goal just 29 seconds into the match, the U.S. held onto a 1–0 lead until a pass by Ghana in the box allowed André Ayew to score and tie the match 1–1 in the 82nd minute. Then, just 4 minutes later, the U.S. scored on a header off of a corner kick taken by Graham Zusi, first headed by Geoff Cameron, and then headed immediately by John Brooks, to give the U.S. the winning goal. Brooks was the first U.S. substitute player to have scored a goal in World Cup play.[46] The Americans then played against Portugal, drawing 2–2 after conceding a last-second goal. They held Germany to a surprising 1–0 defeat in the final group game. In the Round of 16, the American team faced off against Belgium. Despite a goal in the 2nd half of the extra time scored by Julian Green, it was not enough from losing 2–1 against the Belgians, thus resulting in their second straight elimination since the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
2015 Gold Cup
The national team's next tournament under Klinsmann was the
2017 Gold Cup
After their disappointing fourth-place finish at the 2015 Gold Cup, the United States finished at the top of their
2018 FIFA World Cup qualification
On November 13, 2015, the United States played their first
2019 Gold Cup
The United States came into the 2019 Gold Cup as the defending champions looking for back to back victories. They won all 3 group stage matches with a 4–0 win over Guyana, a 6–0 win over Trinidad and Tobago, and a 1–0 win over Panama. They beat Curaçao 1–0 in the quarterfinals and Jamaica 3–1 in the semifinals to move on to a final matchup with Mexico. The final was scoreless through 72 minutes but a 73rd-minute goal by Jonathan dos Santos secured a 1–0 win for Mexico.
2020s
2021 CONCACAF Nations League
In the
2021 Gold Cup
The United States came into the 2021 Gold Cup after a finals lost in the previous tournament. Despite bringing a team of mostly reserve players to the tournament, the United States topped Group B win a 1–0 win over Haiti, a 6–1 win over Martinique, and a 1–0 win over Canada. This put them into the quarterfinals against Jamaica, with the U.S. winning 1–0 and advancing in the semifinals against Qatar. They won against Qatar 1-0 putting them into the finals against Mexico, where, after a scoreless 90 minutes, a Miles Robinson header in the 116th minute resulted in a 1-0 extra time victory and gave the U.S. their seventh Gold Cup title.
2022 World Cup qualification
Due to schedule changes caused by the pandemic, the traditional Hexagonal became an Octagonal, which the United States automatically qualified for as one of the top-five CONCACAF teams in the FIFA rankings, alongside Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras, and Jamaica. Joining them were three teams who had advanced from the second round: El Salvador, Canada, and Panama. Team USA ultimately finished third, ensuring their return to World Cup competition after their absence in 2018, despite fielding the youngest team out of the 32 qualified nations with an average age of just 24 years. Highlights included a 4–1 victory away to Honduras, which was the United States' first road victory in the final round of World Cup qualifying since defeating Panama in 2013, a victory against Mexico–U.S.'s third straight against them in all competitions–by the infamous "Dos A Cero" scoreline, a grueling 3–0 home win against Honduras, where the extreme cold temperatures of Minnesota caused U.S. goalkeeper Matt Turner as well as several Honduran players to suffer from frostbite, and a 5–1 drubbing of Panama, in which Christian Pulisic scored his first ever hat-trick for the national team.
2022 World Cup
On April 1, 2022, the United States were drawn into Group B alongside England, Iran and the winners of the UEFA second round path A, which were unknown at the time of the draw but were later revealed to be Wales. The U.S. played their first group game on November 21, the second day of the tournament, against Wales. A Timothy Weah goal gave the Americans the lead in the first half, but in the second half, Gareth Bale won and converted a penalty to equalize, and the game ended in a 1-1 draw. The second game was on November 25 against England, which was an evenly matched game with few chances that ended in a 0-0 draw, the first World Cup clean sheet by the U.S. against a European team since the aforementioned 1950 victory over the Three Lions. This set the stage for the final group game on November 29 against Iran. Regardless of the result of the other game between England and Wales, a win by the U.S. would put them through, while a draw or defeat would see their World Cup journey end there. The U.S. took opened the scoring late in the first half via a goal from Pulisic, who injured himself in the process when he collided with the Iranian goalkeeper, causing him to be substituted at halftime. In the second half, Iran failed to equalize and the U.S. won 1-0, finishing in second place in the group and advancing to the knockout stage as one of only five undefeated teams and the only team not to concede a non-penalty goal. In the Round of 16, the U.S. faced the winners of Group A, the Netherlands. An early first half goal by Memphis Depay and a stoppage time strike by Daley Blind saw the Dutch take a 2-0 lead into halftime. In the second half, the U.S. would pull one back through Haji Wright but soon after, Denzel Dumfries restored the Netherlands' two goal advantage and the U.S. lost the game 3-1, falling in the Round of 16 for the third time in the last four World Cup tournaments.
2023-present
Following the World Cup, head coach Gregg Berhalter, whose contract had expired, was not immediately renewed. Assistant coach
Meanwhile, following a "worldwide search," Berhalter was re-hired as manager and resumed his duties following the Gold Cup. The first tournament of his second tenure was the
See also
- History of soccer in the United States
- United States at the FIFA World Cup
- United States at the CONCACAF Gold Cup
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- ESPN Soccernet. "United States Schedule and Results". Retrieved April 5, 2009.