Their recent elimination from the 2018 World Cup has led to the spotlight being shone on underage practices in the US where elite clubs charge parents
Tim Howard describes the offer by Tim Mulqueen – the then-goalkeeping coach of the Rutgers University’s men’s team – as “important, as life-altering as any I’ve ever had”.
The offer in question arrived in 1991 and was for Mulqueen to waive his standard $25 fee for private coaching sessions and make an exception for the promising young Jerseyite.
Howard’s mother Esther had managed to scrape together an initial $25 for a clinic with Mulqueen very much as a one-off.