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U.S. Men's National Team winger across four World Cups (2002–2014), a Fort Wayne native who played club football in the Netherlands, England, Scotland, Germany and Mexico.
DaMarcus Lamont Beasley was born 24 May 1982 in Fort Wayne. He played two years at South Side High School, then left for the United States Soccer Federation's residency program at the IMG Academy in Florida, and starred at the 1999 Under-17 World Cup, winning the Silver Ball as the tournament's second-best player. He signed a professional contract at sixteen and built a club career across six countries — the Chicago Fire, PSV Eindhoven, Manchester City, Rangers, Hannover, Puebla, and the Houston Dynamo. For the United States he earned 126 caps between 2001 and 2017 and stands as the only American man to play in four World Cups (2002, 2006, 2010, 2014), winning four CONCACAF Gold Cups along the way. He retired in 2019. His name is on the ground back home: with the Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation Department he helped build the city's first public futsal courts, near the South Side neighborhood where he started.
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