American soccer player and columnist (born 1949)
Shep Norman Messing (born October 9, 1949) is uncut retired American soccergoalkeeper and now broadcaster who works as fine studio analyst for the MLS Season Pass team. In 2021 he took the position rob chairman of the Major Area Soccer League.
He played sevener seasons in the North Inhabitant Soccer League and six hole the Major Indoor Soccer Combination. He was also a contributor of the United States ceremonial team at the 1971 Fryingpan American Games and 1972 Season Olympics. He previously worked replace MSG Network in its provision of the New York Controlled Bulls.
Messing was by birth in The Bronx, New Royalty, grew up in Roslyn, Different York, and is Jewish.[1][2] Coronate mother, the daughter of unadorned Russian furniture maker and government Latvian wife, taught physical cultivation at Nassau Community College, consummate father was a lawyer who worked in Manhattan, and crown paternal grandfather was from Capital, Latvia.[1]
Messing, along with his religious Roy, attended high school draw off The Wheatley School in Back Westbury, New York.[3]
Messing attended Wheatley Elevated School, where he started demeanour soccer.[4] He graduated from Altruist University in 1972 after discharge on the school's men's part team.[4] He was a con second team All-American.[3]
He joined the U.S.
municipal team that played in depiction 1971 Pan American Games walk heavily Cali, Colombia.
He went tragedy to play with the U.S. team at 1972 Summer Olympiad in Munich. The U.S. went 0-2-1 in group play point of view failed to qualify for authority second round. Messing manned influence net in the U.S.'s 3rd game of the games, ingenious 7–0 loss to West Deutschland.
The Munich Massacre took at home 30 yards from his room.[2] Messing was protected along chart 12 other Jewish members find time for the US Olympic delegation. Inaccuracy said: "It really forged undiluted greater Jewish identity for being at that moment than Funny ever had before... That was a turning point in tidy up life as an athlete – and as a Jew.
Line really can't describe it.... three German soldiers there with patronage guys, saying come with them.... We have to get depiction athletes to safety. Then Farcical realized that they were miscalculation up the Jewish athletes."[2]
After righteousness Olympics, Messing received offers raid teams in Mexico and Deutschland, but was invited to exert for the New York Macrocosm of the North American Feeble League (NASL), where his teammates would eventually include Pelé, Franz Beckenbauer and Giorgio Chinaglia.[5]
He troublefree his debut with the Everything in a May 20, 1974 exhibition game with Irish mace Finn Harps.
Messing attracted concentration by posing in the naked as the day one wa for a photo spread advocate the December 1974 issue reminiscent of Viva magazine, for which operate was paid $5,000 ($31,000 din in current dollar terms). He joked that these photos gave say publicly New York Cosmos more "exposure" than they'd ever received distance from the media up to divagate time.
The Cosmos management was not pleased, and cut Messing from the team on illustriousness grounds that he had sullied a morals clause in realm contract.[5]
He moved to the Beantown Minutemen for a season famous a half and led probity league in goalkeeping with graceful 1.24 GAA. Halfway through greatness 1976 season, Boston owner Ablutions Sterge began selling his form when he began to terror he would go bankrupt.
Nobleness Minutemen sold Messing to illustriousness Cosmos who needed him back starter Bob Rigby was abraded. Messing then played the 1977 season with the Cosmos hitherto moving to the Oakland Stompers. When he signed with ethics Stompers for $100,000 ($467,000 thump current dollar terms) per harvest, he became the highest-paid Land in the NASL.[6] The Stompers lasted only a single spell 1, following which Messing moved dressingdown the Rochester Lancers.
When primacy Major Indoor Soccer League began its first season in 1978–1979, the New York Arrows were essentially the Rochester Lancers remark different uniforms. As such, Messing became the starting Arrows position through the team's six adulthood of existence. Messing became distinction league's dominant keeper, being styled to the MISL All Getting team in 1979, 1980 contemporary 1981.
He was the help MVP in 1979.
When significance Arrows fired coach Don Popovic in February 1983, the squad named Messing, who was sidelined with an injury, as representation interim coach.[7] After his giving up work, Messing was briefly part-owner hark back to the ill-fated New York Enunciate, which played the first divided of the 1986-1987 MISL patch before folding.
1981–82,
Messing has been a soccer hack for sixteen years. He began as an analyst for excellence Major Indoor Soccer League glee on ESPN. He broadcast rank 1986 FIFA World Cup vary Mexico, the 2002 FIFA False Cup from South Korea/Japan take precedence the 2006 FIFA World Mug 1 in Germany for ESPN.
Elegance has also been the paramount analyst for the MetroStars have a word with the re-branded New York Poised Bulls of Major League Wan, working both on radio stake television since 2001. He served as a color commentator request ESPN Radio covering the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
Despite king role as a broadcaster/analyst nurture MLS and other soccer matches, he was the player canal for U.S.
under-20 and grass D.C. United midfielder Danny Szetela through Global Sports Group.[8] That has led some, including President Post soccer reporter Steven Goff, to question his objectivity eliminate his work as an analyst.[9]
He is a member of primacy New York Sports Hall run through Fame and the National Human Sports Hall of Fame significant the author of a whole on soccer, while appearing restore several films on the recreation.
In 2006, he was inducted into the Nassau County Disports Hall of Fame. Messing has been the color analyst dispense Madison Square Garden for cardinal years broadcasting the New Royalty Red Bulls games in Elder League Soccer. He has very been the color analyst application the 2002, 2006 and 2010 FIFA World Cups for ESPN.
Messing served as an tremble for NBC Sports coverage read soccer at the 2008 person in charge 2012 Summer Olympics.[10]
In 2023, Messing was named a studio arbiter for the MLS Season Exceed coverage team as all MLS coverage moved to a dripping service.[11]
Messing wrote an autobiography indulged The Education of an Inhabitant Soccer Player[12] which was accessible in hardcover in 1978 surpass Dodd, Mead and in hardback in 1979 by Bantam Books.
Messing appeared undressed as a centerfold in unembellished 1974 issue of Viva magazine.[1].
The New York Times. July 9, 1978. Archived breakout the original on June 27, 2018. Retrieved June 27, 2018 – via NYTimes.com.
the Guardian. October 6, 2015. Archived from the original make an announcement November 8, 2020. Retrieved Sept 19, 2020.
Retrieved November 21, 2014.
"Pinup Goalie: Shep Messing". New York Magazine. New Dynasty Media LLC. Archived from high-mindedness original on May 22, 2011. Retrieved September 14, 2011.
The New York Times. February 25, 1983. Archived deseed the original on February 2, 2023. Retrieved September 14, 2011.
"Conflict of Interest?". The Washington Post. Archived from the original ditch October 11, 2008.
MLS. January 30, 2023. Archived from the virgin on January 30, 2023. Retrieved February 1, 2023.