Tag: Werner Fricker
THE 1994 BID: How the U.S. got the World Cup
Thirty-four years ago today, FIFA awarded the United States the 1994 World Cup. Here is the inside story and background on how the USA secured the bid.
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DOING THEIR BIDDING (PART II): How U.S. lost the 1986 World Cup bid, but won the right to host the 1994 tournament
It certainly was an innocuous and curious place to announce one’s intentions to host the world’s greatest sporting spectacle — in the lobby of a boys dormitory at Indiana Central University during the National Sports Festival in Indianapolis on July 30, 1982
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HOW THEY QUALIFIED: USMNT reached the World Cup on 7 previous occasions
It’s never easy qualifying for the World Cup, whether you try to negotiate the tough jungle called CONCACAF or attempt to convince the powers that be of FIFA that you should be allowed to host the world’s greatest single sporting event.
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U.S. SOCCER HONORS: Garber named Fricker Builder Award winner
U.S. Soccer Friday named Major League Soccer commissioner Don Garber as the 2022 winner of the Werner Fricker Builder Award.
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OFFSIDE REMARKS: One crazy night in Marseille for Esse Baharmast and an American journalist at France ’98
Congratulations to Esse Baharmast for his selection into the National Soccer Hall of Fame.
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DOING THEIR BIDDING (PART II): How U.S. lost the 1986 World Cup bid, but won the right to host the 1994 tournament
It certainly was an innocuous and curious place to announce one’s intentions to host the world’s greatest sporting spectacle — in the lobby of a boys dormitory at Indiana Central University during the National Sports Festival in Indianapolis on July 30, 1982.
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TAKING A PASS (DAY 52): Four memorable days in Philly (1988)
During four glorious days in Philadelphia in late July 1988, the U.S. Soccer Federation celebrated itself on its 75th anniversary.
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DOING THEIR BIDDING (PART II): How U.S. lost the 1986 World Cup bid, but won the right to host the 1994 tournament
Werner Fricker, then USSF president, toasts the USA being awarded the rights to host the 1994...
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THE ORIGINAL 18: The stadiums in the USA ’94 bid
Is there a World Cup in the New York metropolitan area’s future?
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OFFSIDE REMARKS: One crazy night in Marseille for Esse Baharmast and an American journalist at the 1998 World Cup
Congratulations to Esse Baharmast for winning the Werner Fricker Builders’ Award.
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FOR ESSE: U.S. Soccer names Baharmast the 2020 Werner Fricker Builder Award winner
Esfandiar “Esse” Baharmast, a former referee, player, coach and current instructor who has been involved in more than a dozen World Cup tournaments and Olympic Games, has been named the 2020 winner of U.S. Soccer’s Werner Fricker Builder Award.
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NOMINATIONS OPEN MONDAY: For Werner Fricker Builder Award
U.S. Soccer will begin accepting nominations for the 2020 U.S. Soccer Werner Fricker Builder Award Monday, Oct. 28.
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