Joseph Edouard Gaetjens or simply known as Joe Gaetjens is one of the famous icon in America’s football history. He is born in Haiti to Haitian mother and German father was a Haitian soccer player who played for US national team in the 1950 FIFA world cup in Brazil.
Joe Gaetjens had scored the winning goal in the famous 1950 US soccer team 1-0 win over England in the group stage. US national team are consider as an underdog with 500-1 chance of winning the tournament compared to 3-1 England’s chance to win it.
But, Joe Gaetjens was not an American citizen at that time and he actually never did gain the citizenship until he died in 1964 at the age 40. What a shame….
P/s: back then, citizenship is NOT A MUST to represent a certain country. A player also can play for more than one national team as Joe Gaetjens also play for Haiti in 1953.
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