U.S. Soccer announced that Zack Steffen was named the 2018 Male Player of the Year in an announcement on ESPN.com. He is the fourth and youngest goalkeeper to claim the award, after Kasey Keller, Tim Howard, and Brad Friedel.
Steffen earned 44 percent of the vote. RB Leipzig midfielder Tyler Adams finished second with 38 percent, and Schalke’s Weston McKennie earned 16 percent. The voting body is comprised of “National Team coaches, National Team players who earned a cap in 2018, members of the U.