On Saturday, goal keeper Tim Howard was elected to the United States National Soccer Hall of Fame for the first time.
On Saturday, goalkeeper Tim Howard was elected to the US National Soccer Hall of Fame for the first time.
Howard, 44, received 46 of 48 votes (95.8 percent) from the player selection committee and will be enshrined into the Hall of Fame on May 4, 2024.”When you play football, you try and play for the love and play for the glory, and hopefully along the way you do some things,” Howard remarked as an analyst for NBC covering the Premier League.
Howard, a native of North Brunswick, New Jersey, made 121 appearances for the United States men’s national team between 2002 and 2017.
He holds the World Cup record for most saves in a match with 16, which he made against Belgium in the 2014 World Cup. Howard was in goal for the second World Cup competition in a row.
“You can’t think of these moments,” Howard admitted on Saturday. “You put your head down and work really hard.” I’ve always claimed that I’m just a kid from New Jersey who grew up playing soccer and learned to compete and love the game.”
Howard played for the New York/New Jersey MetroStars (1998-2003) and Colorado Rapids (2016-2019) of Major League Soccer, as well as Manchester United (2003-06) and Everton (2006-16) of the English Premier League, where he was named goalkeeper of the year in 2004.
Howard is a minority owner and sports director of USL Championship club Memphis 901 FC, where he last played in 2020.
Josh McKinney, captain of the United States’ seven-a-side Paralympic team, was also inducted, having scored 81 goals in 124 outings over 19 years. In 1996, 2004, and 2012, he competed in the Paralympics.
