Winston DuBose: Foreign Players in the Football League Interview
Winston DuBose was a US national team goalkeeper, and the first American player to try his luck in the Football League in modern times. He spent most of his career with the Tampa Bay Rowdies and won an NASL Championship with Tulsa Roughnecks in 1983, earning 14 caps for his country between 1979 and 1985. …
North American Players in the Football League 1978-92 – Appendix
An overview of the North American footballers to have played in the Football League between 1978 and 1992. Canada Don Ferguson Born: 02.01.1963 Toronto Football League Career: Wrexham (1986) – 20 appearances International Career: Canada (1986-89) 3 caps * Craig Forrest Born: 20.09.1967 Coquitlam, British Columbia Football League Career: Ipswich Town (1985-97) – 263 appearances;…
North America: Foreign Players in the Football League
Historically, few North Americans ventured to the English league. During the 1920s there was a brief exodus in the other direction, in the boom years of the American Soccer League (ASL). Some returned after the ASL went into decline, having gained US nationality along the way. Most famously, Scottish-born Jim Brown was granted US citizenship…
NASL: The British Abroad (Football in North America, Part Three)
After the rise and fall of the American Soccer League in the 1920s – a competition featuring a strong British influence – the next attempt at a professional league in North America started with wholly imported teams. The United Soccer Association was launched in 1967, with Stoke, Sunderland, Wolves (plus Aberdeen, Dundee United, Hibs, Glentoran…
James Brown: An Interview
James Brown is from one of the USA’s most illustrious footballing families – his grandfather Jim played at the 1930 World Cup, where he scored in the semi-final, while his father George was also a US international. Both are in the US Soccer Hall of Fame. James himself is an active football historian, Vice-President of…
Atlantic Crossings (Football in North America, Part Two)
When today’s top football clubs routinely jet around the world for pre-season tours and lucrative friendlies in North America and beyond, it’s hard to imagine what an undertaking trans-continental travel was in the days before passenger flights. In the nineteenth century an Atlantic crossing in bad weather could stretch into weeks, though by the early…
Football in North America: The Background
Football in North America, or soccer as our trans-Atlantic cousins prefer to call it, has a longer history than many people imagine. Canada and the USA contested the first international fixture outside the British Isles, at Newark, New Jersey, in 1885, where a group of British expatriates had established the American Football Association, the world’s…
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