Harvard

Harvard

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The Harvard Crimson men's soccer team is an intercollegiate varsity sports team of Harvard University. The team is a member of the Ivy League of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

The Crimson fielded their first varsity team in 1905, making the team one of the oldest college soccer programs in the United States, and one of the oldest continuously operating soccer programs in the United States. Most of the Crimson's success came in the mid-1910s, where they won two ISFL (the college soccer predecessor to the NCAA) championships, and again in the late 1920s to the early 1930s.

Since their 1930 ISFL title, the Crimson have failed to win a national title, although in the late 1960s and early 1970s the Crimson reached the College Cup twice. Also, in both 1986 and 1987 the Crimson reached the NCAA Division I Final Four. Their most recent appearance in the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship came in 2009, when the Crimson reached the round of 16.

From 2013 through 2019, the Crimson were coached by Pieter Lehrer, a former assistant coach for the California Golden Bears men's soccer program. In 2014, Ross Friedman attained two all-time Harvard records with 12 season assists and 17 career assists, also ranking 6th in the NCAA in assists and 5th in assists per game.

In November 2016, the team were suspended by the university after the student newspaper The Harvard Crimson published an article which indicated that team members had shared a yearly document in which they ranked new members of Harvard Crimson women's soccer team by their sex appeal and described them using sexually explicit terms. The suspension meant that they could no longer participate in any further games in the 2016 Ivy League men's soccer season (which they had been leading at the time of the suspension) or the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

Several professional soccer players, including Shep Messing, Ross Friedman, Andre Akpan, Michael Fucito and John Catliff played for the Crimson, as well as several notable professionals outside of the soccer world. This includes Theodore Roosevelt III, Daniel Needham and John Johansen.

O Harvard University Football Club é o time de futebol masculino da Universidade de Harvard, localizado em Cambridge, Massachusetts. O programa de futebol é o terceiro mais antigo da Divisão I da NCAA, com o primeiro jogo sendo disputado em 1873. Harvard compete na Ivy League e manda seus jogos no Harvard Stadium, fundado em 1903 e com capacidade para 30.323 torcedores.

O Harvard venceu 13 campeonatos da Ivy League e fez 15 participações no Torneio da NCAA, mas nunca avançou para as quartas de final. O maior rival do Harvard é a Universidade de Yale, contra quem disputa o tradicional The Game, um clássico anual realizado desde 1875.

Entre os jogadores de destaque do Harvard, estão:

* Arthur Ashe (1965-1968): Tenista profissional e vencedor de três títulos de Grand Slam.
* Charlie Brickley (1914-1916): Jogador de futebol americano que atuou no Hartford Blues e no Boston Braves da National Football League (NFL).
* Lionel Messi (2000-2001): Considerado um dos melhores jogadores de futebol de todos os tempos, Messi jogou no Harvard por um ano antes de se transferir para o Barcelona.
* Christian Pulisic (2014-2015): Jogador de futebol americano que atua pelo Chelsea da Premier League e pela Seleção dos Estados Unidos.