Hank Steinbreys, a Queen’s football missionaries, helped his passion as a senior official in the United States in this sport in his introduction in the main current, who sought, in a previous marketing profession for Gatorado, in the numbering of the rituals in which the victorious players were 77.
The Football Association in the United States confirmed his death from degenerative heart disease, which was Mr. Steinbsher, the Secretary -General from 1990 to 2000.
Sonl Golati, who was the president of the federation from 2006 to 2018, said in an interview that the largest legacy of Mr. Steinbreys is that American football is “more respectful at the national and international level.”
In the fall of 1990, the Federation, the National Ruling Authority for Sports, had little money and was run by volunteers. He was in urgent need of professional administrative experience.
The national team for men in the United States has just played in the first World Cup for 40 years, in Italy; The United States was recently chosen to host the Men’s World Cup in 1994; The national team of women emerging was about to appear as a prominent international force.
Later that year, Alan E. I played in stadiums throughout the host country). It is important to provide a commercial and commercial feeling to the federation, was the director of sports marketing at Gatorade.
Mr. Steinbrecher joined the company in 1985, soon from Jim Bert, which is to treat the giants in New York, Cool From Gatorade to coach Bill Parsils after victory. It was meant by the Bert’s Anti -Recovery of what Brett considered a harsh treatment by Parcells in practice. But Dousing Gatorade has become a work to celebrate the giants, especially throughout the 1986 season, as midfielder Harry Carson continued to soak Parcells after the victories, which ended with the first Super Bowl title in Denver Brucos.
Bill Schmidt, then Vice President of Global Marketing of Gatoraide, said in an interview that with the inputs of Mr. Steinbreys, he sent messages to Parsils and Karson during the qualifiers in that season, and thanked them for preserving the rituals that gave advertisement to Gaturide. Each of them has a gift certificate of $ 10,000 for Brooks and suggesting a tongue in the cheek that they were wandering in their treasures.
“So he has become a synonym for victory,” Mr. Steinbberry said in 2021 to journalist Michael Lewis, who runs the website. Frontrowsoccer.com. “You can’t request better marketing than that.”
When Mr. Steinbrecher joined the National Football Association in 1990, he needed all the marketing assistance you could get. At that time, Mr. Ruthnberg recalled in an interview, the group’s headquarters were linked to a trailer at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. Mr. Steinbsher was charged with moving the office to two historic palaces in Chicago to help upgrade the Union’s image.
Soon it started in the country to preach this sport, in an attempt to stimulate the unorganized ROOTS emotional network. He spoke to local and state football societies with such friendly enthusiasm and enthusiasm given by Mr. Rottenberg the name of Priest Hank.
During the period of Mr. Steinbreyscher as Secretary -General of the Secretary -General, the Football Association from the Mother Walp operation mainly developed into one that helped raise a sport that many Americans consider a game for immigrants. It laid the basis for professional tournaments for men and women in the United States and helped secure a place for the United States at international football.
In 1994, the United States hosted the Men’s World Cup, which was held in nine cities; The world’s largest football championship, with 3587,538 spectators and average 68,991 per game. In 1991, the United States team won the opening women’s World Cup, which played in China. In 1996, American women won the gold medal before huge crowds at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
Then, in 1999, the United States hosted the largest sporting event ever for women, filling the American Football Association and the Women’s World Cup. The strained final match, between the United States and China, attracted 90,185 fans to Rose Paul in Pasadina, California, while an audience of 40 million in the game was seized on American TV.
When Brandi Chastain scored a winning penalty for the Americans – she wanders in her shirt in a cheerful process and created one of the most indelible pictures in the history of women’s sport – Mr. Steinbreyscher was photographed appearing on the air, high weapons, fists and mouth in the celebration.
But under the celebrations, the tension was immersed between Mr. Steinbreyscher and the American players, many of whom did not believe that he dealt with the women’s team equally despite its success. Bitter contract American women led to the strike before the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, and they would strike again 2000 games in Sydney, Australia. The federation seemed very unprepared for the success of women in 1999 to the point that the team players Their victory tour was organized.
“I think people lack a vision in that era for what football can be for women,” said Marla Missing, head of the 1999 Women’s World Cup organization, in an interview. In order to be fair to Mr. Steinbreys, she said: “He was in the majority, and not strange.”
He was criticized. The development of women’s football has been considered among its proud achievements. “I worked tirelessly for the women’s program,” he said. football Magazine to leave Al -Ittihad in 2000.
Henry William Steinb preached on July 11, 1947, in Queens and grew up in Levitown Village in Long Island. His father, William Francis Steinbreys, worked as an bond. His mother, Helen Eda (Hummer), Steinburysh, worked in a jewelry store and played in the soft football league. Both died in the early seventies.
Mr. Steinb preached by his 53 -year -old wife, Ruth Ann Steinbrecher; His children Chad and Korei. Father’s daughter, Shona Moss; Sister, Mary Serkovsky; And five grandchildren.
Football drinks Mr. Steinbsher with Wanderlus. He started playing at the age of six and was known to take the Long Island Rail Road, and a subway and buses to play with the club’s teams in Brooklyn and Koins. He starred in the Decovino High School in Levitown and won a national championship for the small school in 1970 as a defender with Davis College and AlecinsIn West Virginia. He obtained a Bachelor’s degree there in English in 1971 and a master’s degree in education in 1972 at West Virginia University, then trained at Warren Wilson College and the state of Apalashian, in North Carolina, and Boston University.
Football was for him the sacred. When the coach of the national team for men in Costa Rica, In tide is not preserved, The media in the United States threatened to travel to Washington in 1997 with a missile to kill President Bill Clinton if the coach’s strategy for the World Cup qualifiers against the United States was revealed.
His most unforgettable football moments, for his family at least while playing with his children at the family’s home outside Chicago in the eighties. One of the thanks, Mr. Steinbbres took a shot on the goal in the yard, but it was high. The ball crashed through the dining room window and landed on the table just as his wife was putting Türkiye.
Not everything was lost. In reference to the National Lampoon Family Films, Chad Steinbury said of Türkiye: “I think we saved it in the style of the real Griswold family.”