Showing posts with label Shep Messing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shep Messing. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

2004 - MetroStars autographs

 Alejandro Moreno
Los Angeles Galaxy (MLS 2002-2004)
San Jose Earthquakes (MLS 2005)
Houston Dynamo (MLS 2006-2007)
Columbus Crew (MLS 2007-2009)
Philadelphia Union (MLS 2010)
Chivas USA (MLS 2011)

Venezuela National Team (2004- )

 Joselito Vaca
Orient Petrolero (Bolivia 1999-2000, 2009-2012)
Dallas Burn (MLS 2001-2003)
MetroStars (MLS (2004)
Blooming (Bolivia 2005-2008)
Deportivo Pasto (Colombia 2012- )

Bolivian National Team (2002- )

 Mo Johnston
Partick Thistle (Scotland 1981-1983)
Watford FC (Premier League 1983-1984)
Celtic FC (Scotland 1984-1987)
Nantes (France 1987-1989)
Glasgow Rangers (Scotland 1989-1991)
Everton (Premier League 1991-1993)
Hearts (Scotland 1993-1994)
Falkirk (Scotland 1994-1996)
Kansas City Wizards (MLS 1996-2001)

Scottish National Team (1984-1992)
1990 FIFA World Cup

 Shep Messing
New York Cosmos (NASL 1973-1974, 1976-1977)
Boston Minutemen (MLS 1975-1976)
Oadkland Stompers (NASL 1978)
Rochester Lancers (NASL 1979)
 Jonny Walker
Memphis Storm (AISA 1994)
Dallas Burn (MLS 1996)
Universidad Catolica (Chile 1998-2002)
Huachipato (Chile (1998)
Colo-Colo (Chile 2003)
MetroStars (MLS 2003-2004)
Columbus Crew (MLS 2005-2006)

United States National Team (2004)

 Tenya Bonseu
Chicago Fire (MLS 2000)
Columbus Crew (MLS 20110
Dallas Burn (MLS 2002-2003)
MetroStars (MLS 2004)

Ugandan National Team 

 Zach Wells
MetroStars (MLS 2004-2005)
Houston Dynamo (MLS 2006-2007)
DC United (MLS 2008)

United States National Team 2006

Sergio Galvan Rey
Once Caldas (Colombia 1994-2004)
MetroStars (MLS 2004-2005)
Atletico Nacional (Colombia 2006-2009)
America de Cali (Colombia 2010)
Santa Fe (Colombia 2011)

2004.08.08 - It was a good after game event getting 8 players autographs, including a member of the Galaxy...

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Shep Messing

Shep Messing signed photo...

Shep Messing soccer goalkeeper and broadcaster, graduated from Harvard University in 1973 after playing on the school's men's soccer team. He was a two-time second team All-American.

He joined the U.S. national team that played in the 1971 Pan American Games in Cali. He went on to play with the U.S. team at 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. The U.S. went 0-2-1 in group play and failed to qualify for the second round. Messing manned the net in the U.S.'s third game of the games, a 7-0 loss to West Germany. After the Olympics, Messing received offers from teams in Mexico and Germany, but was invited to play for the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League, alongside Pelé, Franz Beckenbauer and Giorgio Chinaglia. He made his debut with the Cosmos in a May 20, 1974 exhibition game with Irish club Finn Harps. He would remain a backup for most of his career with the Cosmos.

He moved to the Boston Minutemen for a season and a half. Halfway through the 1976 season, Boston Minutemen sold Messing to the Cosmos who needed him after starter Bob Rigby was injured. Messing then played the 1977 season with the Cosmos before moving to the Oakland Stompers. The Stompers lasted only a single season and Messing moved to the Rochester Lancers.

When the Major Indoor Soccer League began its first season in 1978-1979, the New York Arrows were essentially the Rochester Lancers in different uniforms. As such, Messing became the starting Arrows goalkeeper through the team's six years of existence. Messing became the league's dominant keeper, being named to the MISL All Star team in 1979, 1980 and 1981. He was the championship MVP in 1979. When the New York Arrows fired coach Don Popovic in February 1983, the team named Messing, who was sidelined with an injury, as the interim coach.

Messing has been a soccer broadcaster for sixteen years. He began as an analyst for the Major Indoor Soccer League games on ESPN. He broadcast the 1986 FIFA World Cup from Mexico, the 2002 FIFA World Cup from Japan/South Korea, and the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany for ESPN. He has also been the lead analyst for the MetroStars and the New York Red Bulls. Messing served as an analyst for NBC Sports coverage of Soccer at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

He is a member of the New York Sports Hall of Fame and the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, in 2006, he was inducted into the Nassau County Sports Hall of Fame

Messing wrote an autiobiography entitled The Education of an American Soccer Player which was published in hardcover in 1978 by Dodd, Mead, and in paperback in 1979 by Bantam Books.