The footage includes the first international played by the US Men’s National Team in the US, the first ever footage in the world of a soccer match shot with sound, the 1924 US Open Cup final, and American Soccer League and Eastern Soccer League contests.
The footage features German American League play at legendary New York Metro Area soccer venues Metropolitan Oval, Eintracht Oval, and Zerega Oval.
The 1927 film captures an uneventful match between unremarkable ASL teams at the end of a mediocre half-season. Yet, it is a milestone in the history of soccer.
Eleven clips of international friendlies and indoor matches played in New York City between 1941 and 1960 are being released.
The footage, identified in the archives of Cineteca di Bologna, shows San Francisco’s Italia Virtus club playing a team from a visiting Italian navy ship and is from a 1921 film directed by legendary American filmmaker Frank Capra.
The footage is from two matches during the 1919 tour and is the earliest known footage of a professional US soccer team.
Ed Farnsworth looks at the opening match of the United States Football Association’s first international tour, which was in Stockholm against a club side, Tigrarna Fotbollkubben.
Brian Bunk on the discovery by SASH of the earliest known footage of the USMNT in action, filmed during the team’s first-ever overseas tour in 1916 to Scandinavia.
A look at the growing availability of pre-1930s motion picture footage of American soccer.
