Joseph Delach was an American soccer

right half A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

, coach, team executive and league president who spent his entire professional career with

Pittsburgh Beadling Pittsburgh Beadling is an amateur American soccer team founded in 1898 in the Pittsburgh suburb of Upper St. Clair, Pennsylvania. It won the 1954 National Amateur Cup. It claims to be the oldest continuously operating soccer club in the United S ...

. He is a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame. Delach played for

from 1935 until his retirement as a player in 1946. He also coached the team into the early 1960s. He served as President of the Keystone League from 1962 to 1983 and was commissioner of the

National Amateur Cup The National Amateur Cup, also known as the USASA Amateur Cup, is an American soccer competition open to all amateur teams affiliated with the United States Soccer Federation through United States Adult Soccer Association (USASA). In 1923, U.S. ...

for ten years. Delach is a member of the Beadling Hall of FameBeadling Hall of Fame
and was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1973.

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National Soccer Hall of Fame profile
1910 births 1975 deaths American soccer coaches American men's soccer players American soccer chairmen and investors National Soccer Hall of Fame members Pittsburgh Beadling players 20th-century American businesspeople Men's association football midfielders {{US-footy-midfielder-stub