Thursday, November 10, 2022

Sports Illustrated US Soccer Men's Covers

July 4, 1994 - Earnie Stewart (vs Columbia in WC)





May 27, 2002 - World Cup Preview (Clint Mathis)





June 24, 2002 - Landon Donovan (vs Mexico in WC)





June 5, 2006 - World Cup Preview (DaMarcus Beasley, Landon Donovan, Oguchi Onyewu, Bobby Convey)





June 7, 2010 - World Cup Preview (Clint Dempsey, Landon Donovan, Tim Howard)




June 9, 2014 - World Cup Preview (Clint Dempsey)




December 2022 - World Cup Preview (Weston McKennie, Christian Pulisic, Tyler Adams)





SI has put out a World Cup US preview cover every 4 years starting in 2002, but not in '90, '94 and '98.  Certainly, the US finally qualifying for a WC for the first time since 1950 did not have quite the same cultural impact back in 1990.  In '94, though the bigger story was that the US was hosting the WC for the first time, SI did not have a preview cover either for the tournament or for the US team.  In '98, it seems that nobody cared before, during or after, given the US' dismal performance.



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