Philip Slone

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Phil Slone
Personal information
Full name Philip Slone
Date of birth (1907-01-20)January 20, 1907
Place of birth
New York, New York
, United States
Date of death November 4, 2003(2003-11-04) (aged 96)
Place of death West Palm Beach, Florida, United States
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1928–1929 New York Hakoah
1929–1930 New York Giants 27 (0)
1930–1931 Hakoah All-Stars 62 (1)
1933–1940
New York Brookhattan
International career
1930 United States 1 (0)
Medal record
Men's soccer
Representing  United States
FIFA World Cup
Third place 1930 Uruguay
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Philip Slone (January 20, 1907 – November 4, 2003) was a U.S.

American Soccer League. He was a member of the U.S team at the 1930 FIFA World Cup and is a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame
.

Youth

Slone grew up in

soccer. After high school, he attended St. John’s University
. He graduated in 1929 with a degree in law.

Club career

While in high school,

Eastern Soccer League (ESL), they invited Slone, then in college to play with them. Slone signed with New York Hakoah of the ESL in 1928, beginning his twelve-year professional career. That first season was difficult. As he remembers it, "Life was hectic then. I played professional soccer on the weekends, worked during the week and went to evening classes at St. John's University Law School."[1]

A little background is required to understand the next two years of Slone’s career. The ESL was created during the “Soccer War” which pitted the

USFA. After three ASL teams were expelled from the league, they joined several other teams to form the ESL. This league lasted a season and a half before merging with the ASL at the end of the “Soccer War”. New York Hakoah was owned by Maurice Vandeweghe, who also owned the New York Giants
of the ASL. The merger of the ESL and ASL meant that Vandeweghe now owned to teams in the same league. League rules forbid that, so Vandeweghe sold Hakoah. When he did, Slone jumped to Vandeweghe's other team, the Giants.

In June 1930, Slone left the U.S. to play in the

American Soccer League
. Slone continued to play with Brookhattan in the second ASL until his retirement in 1940.

National team

Slone earned one

cap with the U.S. national team in 1930 when he traveled to Uruguay for the 1930 FIFA World Cup. However, his cap did not come during the finals, but in an August 17, 1930 loss to Brazil following the cup.[2]

Slone was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1986.[3] He died in West Palm Beach, Florida in 2003. At the time of his death, he was the last surviving member of the inaugural American World Cup team.[4]

References

  1. ^ Philip Slone - The Lone Survivor[dead link]
  2. ^ USA - Details of International Matches 1885-1969
  3. ^ "Philip Slone - 1986 Inductee | National Soccer Hall of Fame". Philip Slone - 1986 Inductee | National Soccer Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2023-12-19.
  4. ^ fifa.com

https://www.fifa.com/theclub/news/newsid=71875/ Archived 2018-03-01 at the Wayback Machine

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