Two of American soccer’s leading pioneers in the late ’60s and ’70s head the list of six new inductees into the National Soccer Hall of Fame. Longtime NASL commissioner Phil Woosnam and Walter Chyzowych, the first full-time U.S. national team coach, will join 209 Hall of Famers inducted since 1950. Woosnam, who also coached the U.S. national team in the late 1960s on a part-time basis, served as NASL commissioner for 12 years, rescuing it from sure collapse. Chyzowych, who died in 1994, was considered the dean of U.S. coaches, having launched the U.S. coaching program with German Dettmar Cramer. Also selected for induction June 15 in Oneonta, N.Y. are former NASL and MISL standout Johnny Moore; Alexandre Ely, a member of the U.S. national team (1960-65); Jimmy Roe, a standout in the ’30s with such clubs as Stix Baer & Fuller and Central Breweries; and Robert Craddock, Jr., who was on the U.S. 1950 World Cup team and whose father Robert Sr. was inducted into the Hall in 1959.
