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 Legendary Milwaukee soccer coach Bob Gansler will receive his latest – and perhaps greatest – honor Saturday.
Gansler will be inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in a ceremony at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. The ceremony precedes the U.S. national team's friendly against world champion Spain.
Gansler, who turns 70 on July 1, was voted into the Hall in the Builder category. The Builder category is for individuals in a non-playing capacity who have "demonstrated a major, sustained and positive impact on U.S. soccer on a national or first division professional level for a minimum of 10 years."
He'll join Cobi Jones, Eddie Pope, Earnie Stewart and Bruce Murray in being enshrined in the Hall, which continues to induct members despite closing its facility in Oneonta, N.Y., in February 2010.
Gansler was born in Hungary, but his family moved to Milwaukee in 1952 and he grew up playing with Bavarian SC. Nationally, he is best known as the coach of the U.S. national team that qualified for the 1990 World Cup, the Americans' first appearance in the tournament in 40 years.
For more on his remarkable career, here is our story from the day his induction was announced in March.
Also, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Major League Soccer club Sporting Kansas City recently published Q-and-A stories with Gansler.
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