This is the third part of a four-part series about the night the USMNT played the United German Hungarians in a tune-up for the 1990 World Cup in Oakford, Pa. Read Part I and Part II.
In the mid-1980s, when UGH sought good, young players, they found Peter Vermes, a youth national team player from Rutgers who later captained the U.S. national team and pioneered the MLS movement. Vermes, the current head coach at Sporting Kansas City, missed the USMNT game against UGH in May 1990 by a week due to the conclusion of the Dutch season, but he returned to face Poland and scored a 57th minute penalty.