Shannon Boxx is an American retired professional soccer player who played for various teams as well as for the United States women’s national soccer team. Boxx was born in Fontana, California, and she began her career playing for the Torrance United Waves Soccer Club before playing soccer in high school and college at the University of Notre Dame. While playing... read full bio
Santino Quaranta is an American former professional soccer player who played as winger or second striker for various teams as well as the United States national team. Quaranta was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and he began his career playing for the youth club at IMG Soccer Academy. Quaranta went on to turn professional after being drafted eighth overall in the... read full bio
Ruud van Nistelrooy is a Dutch football coach and former professional player who played as a striker for various teams as well as for Netherland’s national team. Ruud was born in Oss, Netherlands, and he began his career playing for youth clubs such as Nooit Gedacht, RKSV Margriet and Den Bosch. Ruud went on to begin his professional career playing... read full bio
Ruud Gullit is a Dutch football manager and former professional footballer who played as a midfielder or forward for various teams as well as for the Netherlands national team. Gullit was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and he began his career playing for youth clubs ASV Meerboys and DWS. Gullit went on to turn professional with HFC Haarlem and since then... read full bio
Roy Keane is an Irish football pundit, manager, and former professional player. Keane was born in Cork, Ireland, and he began his career as a youth playing for Rockmount. Keane went on to turn professional with Cobh Ramblers and from there, went on to play for teams such as Nottingham Forest, Manchester United and Celtic. Keane has also played for... read full bio
Robbie Rogers is a television producer as well as a former American professional soccer player who player as winger and full back for various teams as well as for the United States national team. Rogers was born in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, and he began his career playing for the youth club IMG Soccer Academy. From there, Rogers went on... read full bio
Fanendo Adi is a Nigerian football player who currently plays as a striker for Columbus Crew SC in the Major League Soccer. Adi was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and he began his career playing as a youth with Lagos Islanders and then Union Bank. He went on to begin playing professionally for AS Trencin. Over the course of his career... read full bio
Mallory Pugh Swanson began playing soccer at the age of four. She was born and raised in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. She began her early career with Real Colorado, using her older sister as an example. Swanson attended her first training camp with the U-14 girls squad to begin her career with the United States Youth National squad. She became a... read full bio
Professional soccer player Sofia Huerta competes for both the OL Reign and the USWNT. Huerta was raised in a sports-loving household; both her father and mother were former athletes. Huerta was born in Boise, Idaho. She developed an early interest in sports as a result of this atmosphere. Huerta played soccer for the Santa Clara Broncos while attending Santa Clara University.... read full bio
Redknapp started his playing career as a midfielder with Tottenham Hotspur, where he played for the youth squad until he was fifteen years old, at which point he went to West Ham United. Before moving to AFC Bournemouth, he made 175 appearances for West Ham in both league and cup play, scoring eight goals in seven seasons. Redknapp made 101 appearances... read full bio
Carli Lloyd currently plays for the Houston Dash in the National Women's Soccer League and the United States women's national soccer team. She is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, and scored the gold medal-winning goals in the finals of both the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics. Lloyd has represented the United States at three FIFA Women's World... read full bio
Kelley O’Hara is an American soccer player who currently plays winger/wingback/forward for the National Women’s Soccer League for the Utah Royals FC and who also plays for the United States women’s national soccer team. O’Hara is a two-time FIFA Women’s World Cup champion and is also an Olympic soccer gold medalist. As an individual, O’Hara has been a three-time Pac-10... read full bio
Alexi Lalas is an American retired soccer player who has played as defender and is known for playing with the United States men’s national soccer team in the FIFA World Cup. Lalas was born in Birmingham, Michigan, and he began playing soccer when he was 11 years old. During his high school years, he was named the Michigan High School... read full bio
Mario Balotelli is an Italian professional footballer who is currently playing as a striker for the Serie A club Brescia, as well as for Italy’s national team. Balotelli was born in Palermo, Italy, and he began his career as a youth playing for Lumezzane, which is the team he eventually turned professional with at the age of 15. Since turning... read full bio
Gareth Bale is a professional soccer winger, who plays for Real Madrid and the Wales national team. At the time of his debut for Wales, he was the youngest player to represent the nation. He has since earned over 50 caps and scored 20 international goals, becoming Wales’ fifth-highest scorer of all time. Since transferring to Real Madrid for a... read full bio
Matt Mills is an English professional footballer who most recently has played as centre back or defender for Forest Green Rovers of League Two club. Mills was born in Swindon, England, and he began his career as a youth playing for Swindon Town’s youth club and then Southampton’s youth club. Mills went on to sign his first professional contract with... read full bio
Shamila Kohestani is an Afghani professional footballer who was the former captain of the Afghanistan women’s national football team. Kohestani was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and while growing up, she had a hard childhood growing up under the Taliban rule. Kohestani used football as a release and after the Taliban was removed from power she began playing football and worked... read full bio
Robbie Keane is an Irish retired professional footballer who played as forward for various teams and for the Republic of Ireland national team. He also served as captain for several years for the Republic of Ireland national team and since retiring as a player, Keane has gone on to be assistant manager of Middlesbrough. Keane was born in Dublin, Ireland,... read full bio
Christian Ramirez is an American professional soccer player who currently plays forward for the Houston Dynamo of the MLS. Ramirez was born in Santa Ana, California, and he began his career playing soccer in high school where he also played for the Olympic Development Program and earned the Golden Boot award. He went on to play college soccer first at... read full bio
Justin Meram is an Iraqi-American professional soccer player who currently plays as a winger, forward for Real Salt Lake of the MLS and for Iraq’s national team. Meram was born in Shelby Carter Township, Michigan, and he began his career playing soccer in high school before going on to play for the Yavapai Roughriders at Yavapai College in Arizona. During... read full bio
