(From its early days, Colin Jose covered Toronto soccer for Soccer America, but he is best known as the preeminent authority on the history of the game in the United States and Canada. He isthe historian at Canada’s Soccer Hall of Fame into which he was inducted in 2009, and he was the historian/archivist at U.S. Soccer’s National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1997-2007. In 2004, the National Soccer Hall of Fame named its Media Award in Jose’s honor.)

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