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Olympic claims of NYA coach inaccurate
by Outspoken on Wed Aug 20, 2008 4:16 am
Olympic claims of NYA coach inaccurate
Josh Muscadin has said he played for the U.S. team in 1984, but soccer officials and athletes say it didn't happen.
By RACHEL LENZI
Staff Writer Portland Press Herald
For years, Josh Muscadin has boasted of an impressive achievement: that he was a midfielder on the U.S. men's soccer team at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.
Muscadin, the boys' soccer coach at North Yarmouth Academy since 2005 and the school's director of auxiliary programs, has talked about crossing paths at those Summer Games with future NBA stars Patrick Ewing and Chris Mullin. He has spoken in detail about the medical staff who tended to Olympic athletes after training and competition.
He has even addressed the boycott, since the Soviet Union and 15 other nations refused to send their athletes to Los Angeles.
"We stayed away from it," Muscadin said last month of the boycott. "My political reason was a round ball."
Turns out, Muscadin's claims of representing the U.S. in the Olympics are not true, according to a Press Herald investigation.
"Josh Muscadin has never appeared for the U.S. in an official Olympic competition or with the full men's national team," David Applegate, a communications coordinator with U.S. Soccer, wrote in an e-mail. "We do not have any records of him playing in an official game."
Another U.S. Soccer representative, Neil Buethe, wrote: "Joshua Muscadin was not a member of the 1984 Men's Olympic Team."
Jamie Swanner and Jeff Hooker, members of that team, said they don't recall Muscadin as a teammate or as a part of the U.S. squad in the year of training leading up to the games.
When asked Tuesday about the Olympics, Muscadin said that he was a "secondary player" with the U.S. men's soccer team in 1984 – part of a practice squad that trained with the national squad and with the Olympians.
"But they didn't have me down as anyone who ever participated," he said. "I wasn't actually on the roster as part of the 22 players that ended up making it. I was on the other squad with the other players who couldn't take people's spots because of injuries that would occur."
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=205731&ac=PHnws
John Ewing/Staff Photographer
Josh Muscadin has said he played for the U.S. team in 1984, but soccer officials and athletes say it didn't happen.
By RACHEL LENZI
Staff Writer Portland Press Herald
For years, Josh Muscadin has boasted of an impressive achievement: that he was a midfielder on the U.S. men's soccer team at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.
Muscadin, the boys' soccer coach at North Yarmouth Academy since 2005 and the school's director of auxiliary programs, has talked about crossing paths at those Summer Games with future NBA stars Patrick Ewing and Chris Mullin. He has spoken in detail about the medical staff who tended to Olympic athletes after training and competition.
He has even addressed the boycott, since the Soviet Union and 15 other nations refused to send their athletes to Los Angeles.
"We stayed away from it," Muscadin said last month of the boycott. "My political reason was a round ball."
Turns out, Muscadin's claims of representing the U.S. in the Olympics are not true, according to a Press Herald investigation.
"Josh Muscadin has never appeared for the U.S. in an official Olympic competition or with the full men's national team," David Applegate, a communications coordinator with U.S. Soccer, wrote in an e-mail. "We do not have any records of him playing in an official game."
Another U.S. Soccer representative, Neil Buethe, wrote: "Joshua Muscadin was not a member of the 1984 Men's Olympic Team."
Jamie Swanner and Jeff Hooker, members of that team, said they don't recall Muscadin as a teammate or as a part of the U.S. squad in the year of training leading up to the games.
When asked Tuesday about the Olympics, Muscadin said that he was a "secondary player" with the U.S. men's soccer team in 1984 – part of a practice squad that trained with the national squad and with the Olympians.
"But they didn't have me down as anyone who ever participated," he said. "I wasn't actually on the roster as part of the 22 players that ended up making it. I was on the other squad with the other players who couldn't take people's spots because of injuries that would occur."
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=205731&ac=PHnws
John Ewing/Staff Photographer
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