Originally Posted By: RichieAnimal
A little American soccer history for you. The US was in the first men's world cup it was played in uragway in 1930. We finished 4th pretty good right.

When they arrived at the stadium everyone there including the players were frisked for weapons. Our teams nick name was "the shot putters"


The US also scored the first world cup Hat-Trick.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FIFA_World_Cup_hat-tricks