Joe Cannon (soccer) signed by Major League Soccer team San Jose Earthquakes. After starting goalkeeper David Kramer tore the labrum in his shoulder, Cannon was promoted to the first team for the Quakes. He would remain as the starter until 2002, leading San Jose to victory in MLS Cup 2001 and winning his first MLS Goalkeeper of the Year Award in 2002. Cannon's Major League Soccer contract expired following the 2002 season and he attempted to play for a European team. After an unsuccessful trial with Feyenoord, he signed a six-month contract with RC Lens of France's Ligue 1. He was behind Charles
Soccer America College Team of the Century Tar Heels four times a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I champion, was so chosen. Soccer America College Team of the Century The "Soccer America" College Team of the Century were chosen by the editors of the American periodical "Soccer America" to comprise, as one men's and one women's eleven-member side divided each as one goalkeeper, three defenders, four midfielders, and three forwards, the best players of collegiate association football in the United States of the 20th century CE. Concomitant to the selection of the "Men's Team of the Century" was that of the "male player of the century"; University