In his first season, Howard was voted best goalkeeper in the Premier League, allowing just 47 goals in 44 matches, with 14 shutouts - and helping the team to its first football association cup in five years. "You know, I think there's some other guys that, if you gave me the decision to make, I might have got some other guys."īut Manchester's fans don't want any other guy. and they went out and got me," says Howard. "Look, Manchester United, again, one of the biggest soccer clubs in the world, needed a goalkeeper. Despite his talent and his confidence, and everything he's overcome – he, too, still wonders how it all happened. The story has an almost fairy-tale quality to it, especially since Howard fights a daily battle with a neurological disorder called Tourette's Syndrome. So how did Howard become one of the best known Americans in international sports, while escaping the attention of his fellow countrymen?
Chances are you have never heard of Tim Howard, and if you don't follow a sport Americans call soccer, there is no reason you should know the name.īut to the rest of the world, which calls the sport football, Howard is the American goalkeeper for the most famous team in the world - Manchester United of England.
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