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Football At The 1991 Pan American Games
The eleventh edition of the Men's Football Tournament at the Pan American Games was held in Havana, Cuba from August 4 to August 13, 1991. After the preliminary round there was a knock-out stage. by Josef Bobrowsky on the RSSSF After boycotted the games, South American teams (including title holder ) did not participate in the competition. , coa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estadio Panamericano, Havana
Estadio Panamericano (Stade Panaméricain de La Havane) is a multi-use stadium located near Cojimar, a city ward of Havana, Cuba. It is used mostly for athletics, baseball, and as an alternate site for the Cuba national football team. History It was first used as the main stadium for the 1991 Pan American Games. The stadium opened August 1, 1991 and is able to hold 34,000 people (can have expanded capacity to 50,000). It served as the site of an episode of the American version of Top Gear in 2016. The episode showed the stadium in disrepair and mostly abandoned. Renovations The stadium was renovated in 2008 with an artificial turf replacing the original grass turf. Structure The stadium is surrounded by a park and faces nearby Boca de Cojimar (Havana Bay). Seating is mainly open air with a partially covered grandstand to the east side. Surrounding the football field is an oval track. See also *Estadio Latinoamericano *Estadio Pedro Marrero Estadio Nacional de Fútbol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cobi Jones
Cobi N'Gai Jones (born June 16, 1970) is an American former professional Association football, soccer player and commentator. He is an analyst for Major League Soccer club LA Galaxy on Time Warner Cable SportsNet. He can also be seen on Fox Sports (United States), Fox Sports, BeIN Sports, the Pac-12 Network, and as the host of the Totally Football Show: American Edition. As a player, Jones was a midfielder from 1994 until 2007, starting his career in England with Premier League club Coventry City F.C., Coventry City, before playing for Brazilian side CR Vasco da Gama, Vasco da Gama. He is one of a significant group of American national team stars who returned from overseas to aid the then new Major League Soccer in 1996, beginning an 11-year spell with the Los Angeles Galaxy. Jones is the all-time leader in cap (sport), caps for the United States men's national soccer team, United States national team and a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame. Following retirement, Jones ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexi Lalas
Panayotis Alexander "Alexi" Lalas ( el, Αλέξης Λάλας; born June 1, 1970) is an American retired soccer player who played mostly as a defender. Lalas is best known for his participation with the United States men's national soccer team in the 1994 FIFA World Cup, where he was a standout player on the team with his distinctive long beard and hair. After the World Cup, Lalas went on to become the first American in Italy's Serie A as a member of Calcio Padova.Thiessay on U.S. soccer history, however, indicates that other two American-born players, Alfonso Negro and Armando Frigo, appeared for Serie A teams in the late 1930s, making Lalas the third American-born player in the Italian top league. Lalas would later return to the United States in 1996 to take part in the newly formed Major League Soccer, as a member of New England Revolution. Lalas also played with Club Sport Emelec of Ecuador, and the MLS squads MetroStars and Kansas City Wizards, but his most successful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhett Harty
Rhett Stowe Harty (born March 8, 1970 in Pasadena, California) is an American former soccer defender who spent one season in the Western Soccer League, one in the Continental Indoor Soccer League, one in the USISL and three with the MetroStars of Major League Soccer. Career High School and college Harty grew up in Los Angeles and attended Servite High School where he played on the boys’ soccer team. He was a Parade Magazine high school All American in 1987 and 1988. After graduating from Servite in 1988, he entered Stanford University. He played three years, then red shirted a season while he played with the U.S. Olympic soccer team as it qualified for the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. A late injury kept him from travelling with the team. He returned to Stanford and graduated in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in history and classical studies. During his final year of college, Harty had an internship with an electrophysiology doctor. After graduation, the doct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eloy Salgado
Eloy Salgado is a retired American soccer forward who played professionally in the Major Indoor Soccer League, National Professional Soccer League and USISL. Professional In 1988, Salgado graduated from Lewisville High School where he was a 1988 Parade Magazine All American High School soccer player. On June 17, 1988, the Dallas Sidekicks selected Salgado in the third round (twenty-eight) overall of the Major Indoor Soccer League draft. He played three seasons for the Sidekicks. Salgado spent the summers of 1990 and 1991 with the Richardson Rockets of the SISL. In August, the Rockets finished runner up to the Brooklyn Italians in the 1991 U.S. Open Cup. In September 1991, Salgado signed with the Tulsa Ambush of the National Professional Soccer League. In the fall of 1992, of the Detroit Rockers signed Salgado for the upcoming NPSL season. On February 25, 1993, the Rockers traded him and their first round draft pick to the Milwaukee Wave in exchange for Joey Kirk. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dante Washington
Dante Deneen Washington (born November 21, 1970, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American former soccer player who played as a striker. Washington played college soccer at Radford University, and was named a first team All-American in 1991. He is the NCAA career leader for assists in men's soccer. Playing career After years in the various indoor leagues and minor outdoor leagues, he signed with MLS and the Columbus Crew midway through the inaugural 1996 season. But after only three games with the club, Dante was traded to the Dallas Burn for the rights to Brad Friedel. Washington spent the next three and a half seasons in Dallas, his best being in 1997, when he scored 12 goals. In 2000, it was off to Columbus again, traded for a draft pick. Washington scored 15 in his first season back with the Crew, but his production declined during the next two seasons and he wasn't re-signed in 2003. Washington would spend the next two years with the Virginia Beach Mariners of the A-Lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Lapper
Michael Steven Lapper (born August 28, 1970 in Redondo Beach, California) is an American retired soccer defender. During his fifteen-year playing career, most of it spent as a sweeper, he played in England, Germany and the United States. He earned 44 caps, scoring one goal, with the U.S. national soccer team between 1991 and 1995. He was part of the U.S. teams at both the 1992 Summer Olympics and the 1994 FIFA World Cup. Player Youth Lapper played youth soccer in the North Huntington Beach Untouchables youth club. He graduated from Marina High in Huntington Beach. Lapper played collegiate soccer at UCLA from 1988 to 1991. While a Bruin, Lapper won the 1990 National Championship, earning first team All American honors. While in college, Lapper also played with the local Los Angeles Heat of the Western Soccer League in 1988 and 1989. He was a WSL First Team All-Star in 1989. International Lapper made his debut for the United States on April 7, 1991 against South Kore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yari Allnut
Yari Allnutt (born February 17, 1970) is an American retired soccer player who played professionally in Mexico and the United States, including the American Professional Soccer League and Major League Soccer. He earned five caps with the United States national team, including games at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Early life and education Allnutt was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and his family moved to Mexico when he was a year old. He is Jewish. He played street soccer in Mexico, but did not join an organized team until his family moved to San Diego, California when he was ten. Three years later, he began playing for the top youth club La Jolla Nomads, coached by Derek Armstrong. He moved up the clubs age groups, winning the McGuire Cup with the U-19 team. After graduating from University City High School in 1989, Allnutt played with the Nomads' senior team, also coached by Armstrong, the San Diego Nomads of the Western Soccer League. That year the Nomads won the WSL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dario Brose
Dario Brose (born January 27, 1970, in New York City) is a retired American soccer player who spent eight seasons in Europe, three in Major League Soccer and one in the USL First Division. He has also coached the Mid-Michigan Bucks of the Premier Development League. Youth Dario played his high school soccer for Roy C. Ketcham High School in Wappinger, New York under the direction of coach Jeff Behnke. In 1986 he won the Capital Cup tournament's under-19 championship with New York side ''Blau Weiss Gottschee'' of Ridgewood, Queens. Brose played college soccer for North Carolina State University and was named All-American in 1990. That year, the Wolfpack made it to the Final Four. Brose graduated in 1991 with two teammates, Roy Lassiter and Henry Gutierrez, who also had successful professional careers. Another teammate on the Wolfpack, Scott Schweitzer, coached Brose with the Carolina RailHawks. Brose then teamed up with Chris Carrieri who also played in Major League Soccer with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Imler
Erik Bradley Imler (born June 1, 1971 in Silver Spring, Maryland) is an American soccer coach and former player. He won national championships while playing at the University of Virginia before becoming part of the US team that competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. He is currently an assistant coach for Stumptown AC in the National Independent Soccer Association. Youth and college Imler grew up in Maryland, attending Bowie High School in Bowie, Maryland. In 1989, his senior year, he was named a ''Parade Magazine'' high school All-American soccer player. After high school, he attended the University of Virginia where he played as a defender and defensive midfielder on the men's soccer team from 1989 to 1992. During his four season at Virginia, the Cavaliers took the NCAA title twice (1991 and 1992) and were co-champions once (1989). In 1992, he was the team captain as a senior. Imler was a two-time second-team All-American. While at Virginia, he majored in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curt Onalfo
Curt Onalfo (born November 19, 1969) is an American former soccer player and coach who currently serves as technical director of Major League Soccer club New England Revolution. As a player, he played two seasons in France, two in the USISL, one in Mexico and four in Major League Soccer, achieving his most success with the Los Angeles Galaxy and D.C. United. He also earned one cap with the United States national team. He has an extensive coaching résumé, having served as head coach of three MLS clubs. Following a five-game losing streak with the Galaxy, Onalfo was removed from his role as head coach of the team on July 27, 2017. Youth and amateur Onalfo was born in São Paulo, Brazil, but grew up in the United States in Ridgefield, Connecticut, and played high school soccer at Ridgefield High School. He went on to play four years of college soccer at the University of Virginia under Bruce Arena - an association that would serve him well in his later coaching career. Play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cam Rast
Cameron “Cam” Rast (born January 16, 1970) is a retired American youth international soccer defender and current head coach of the Santa Clara University men’s soccer team. Youth and collegiate career Growing up, Rast had a two brothers including his twin, Matt and two sisters. Rast grew up in California where he played soccer with the Santa Clara Sporting Club. He attended Royal High School in Simi Valley, California. As a high school soccer player, he was a 1987–1988 Gatorade High School Player of the Year. After graduating from high school, he attended Santa Clara University where he played four seasons (1988–1991) as a defender under head coach Steve Sampson. His sophomore year, he was the captain of the Broncos as they made it to the NCAA championship game only to have NCAA officials name Santa Clara and their opponents University of Virginia co-champions after four overtimes. The next year, Rast suffered a knee injury which knocked him out of most of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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