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More Than a Game Part IV: Steve ‘Rammelade’ Rammel’s journey from UGH to MLS

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, Part IIand Part III.

Quick American soccer trivia. Who scored the first hat trick in MLS history?

The answer—Steve Rammel, nicknamed “Rammelade” by his classmates at West Deptford High after Gatorade sent cases of their sports drink to the school in honor of Rammel being named Parade’s High School Player of the Year in 1986.