The United States Soccer Federation released the list of nominees for the 2019 National Soccer Hall of Fame class on Wednesday afternoon.
Individuals are nominated in three categories: players, veterans and builders. Forty-four former players have been nominated under the player category, with 17 making the ballot for the first time.
Additionally, 14 individuals have been nominated in the veteran category, while nine are in the builder category.
The National Soccer Hall of Fame was established in 1950 and resides in Frisco, Texas at the newly-renovated Toyota Stadium.
Here are the nominees in each category – a single asterisk indicates that it’s their first time on the ballot, while a double asterisk indicates that it’s an individual’s final year of eligibility.
Players
David Beckham
Gregg Berhalter
Carlos Bocanegra
Shannon Boxx*
Edson Buddle*
Rachel Buehler Van Hollebeke*
Lori Chalupny*
Lauren Cheney Holiday*
Steve Cherundolo
Brian Ching
Kenny Cooper*
Jeff Cunningham
Todd Dunivant*
Kevin Hartman
Frankie Hejduk
Thierry Henry
Stuart Holden
Eddie Johnson
Chris Klein
Karina LeBlanc*
Amy LePeilbet
Eddie Lewis
Lori Lindsey
Stephanie Lopez Cox*
Pablo Mastroeni
Clint Mathis
Heather Mitts
Jaime Moreno
Ben Olsen
Pat Onstad
Heath Pearce*
Troy Perkins*
Steve Ralston
Cat Reddick Whitehill*
Donovan Ricketts*
Leigh Ann Robinson Brown*
Tony Sanneh**
Homare Sawa*
Kate Sobrero Markgraf
Bakary Soumare*
Taylor Twellman**
Aly Wagner
Abby Wambach*
Josh Wolff
Veterans
Chris Armas
Mike Burns
John Doyle
Lorrie Fair
Linda Hamilton
Mary Harvey
Chris Henderson
Lori Henry
Dominic Kinnear
Shep Messing
Tiffany Roberts
Mike Sorber
Greg Vanney
Tisha Venturini – Hoch
Builders
Joe Cummings
Sunil Gulati
Sandra Hunt
Tim Leiweke
Francisco Marcos
Thom Meredith
Lothar Osiander
Kevin Payne
George Strawbridge
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The voting committee includes all past and present men’s and women’s full national team coaches, all active MLS and NWSL head coaches with a minimum of four years of experience as a head coach at the highest professional level in the United States, MLS and NWSL management representatives, MLS Commissioner Don Garber and NWSL President Amanda Duffy, plus other executives in U.S. Soccer, Hall of Famers, and designated media members.
Each voter can select up to 10 candidates per ballot. Any player appearing on at least 66.7 percent of ballots will earn election, while any player who does not appear on at least five percent of ballots will be removed from voting contention until they qualify for the Veteran ballot.
Veteran nominees need to be on at least 50 percent of ballots to secure election into the Hall of Fame.
A separate screening committee comprised of the U.S. Soccer Director of Officials; MLS and NWSL management representatives; MLS Commissioner; NWSL Executive Director; U.S. Soccer Secretary General; U.S. Soccer President; all Hall of Famers votes for the Builder category.