Joe-Max Moore

Joe-Max Moore (born February 23, 1971) is an American former soccer player.

He played professionally for clubs in Germany, England and the United States.

He finished his career with the New England Revolution of Major League Soccer.

In addition to his club career, Moore earned 100 caps, scoring 24 goals, for the U.S. national team between 1992 and 2002.

During those years, he was part of U.S. teams at the 1992 Summer Olympics and the 1994, 1998 and 2002 FIFA World Cups.

In July 1994, USSF loaned Moore to German Second Division club 1. FC Saarbrücken.

At the time, Moore was a part of the U.S. team at the 1994 FIFA World Cup, but did not appear in any matches.

With a lull in national team games following the World Cup, USSF decided to move several players overseas.

Saarbrücken would end up buying Moore's contract from USSF for $250,000.

In Moore's single season with Saarbrücken, he played 25 games, leading the club with 13 goals.

At the end of the season, Saarbrücken transferred Moore to fellow Second Division club 1. FC Nürnberg.

He again led his team in scoring with eight goals.

In 1996, Major League Soccer (MLS) was in the process of building teams for its upcoming first season.

As part of that process, MLS attempted to ensure an initial equitable distribution of talent across each of its teams.

It did this by allocating known players to each team.

MLS allocated Giuseppe Galderisi to the New England Revolution.

However, he showed up injured and played poorly through his first four games, so MLS replaced him with Moore on the Revolution roster on July 24, 1996.

Moore had an exceptional four-year tour with the Revolution.

Aside from an injury marred 1997 season, in which he only played 11 games, scoring four goals, he consistently produced for the club.

In November–December 1997, Moore spent a month on loan from the Revs to Emelec of the Ecuadorian First Division following the end of the MLS season where he yearned to be close to his family recently residing in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

He was not the only MLS player with Emelec, as Alexi Lalas joined him during the loan.

During these years, he became the club's all-time leading scorer and made the 1999 MLS All Star team.

His success with the Revs led him to pursue a return to Europe, this time with Everton in the English Premiership.

In November 1999, Moore went to Everton, in the English Premiership, after he impressed the Everton staff during a seven-day October tryout.

At the time, Moore did not have permission from MLS to work out with any team but the Revolution.

Despite this, MLS placed no barriers in the way of Moore's free transfer.

The contract with Everton, good for three and a half years, would pay Moore approximately $600,000 per season.

Moore initially had outstanding success with Everton, scoring five goals in his first five first-team games.

On April 4, 2013, Moore was elected to the National Soccer Hall of Fame.

Moore was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of Corey Moore, and Tulsa oil man and business man, Carl Moore.

Moore's father also happened to be a part-owner of the Tulsa Roughnecks of the North American Soccer League.

He moved to Irvine, California when he was 14, and played boys' soccer at Mission Viejo High School where he was a four-year starter.

Heavily recruited out of high school, he chose to play NCAA soccer at UCLA.

While at UCLA, he played with future national team teammates Brad Friedel, Chris Henderson and Cobi Jones.

As a freshman, he scored 11 goals, assisted on ten others and was named to the Soccer America Magazine's All-Freshman team.

That year, UCLA won the NCAA championship, defeating Rutgers in penalty kicks.

As a sophomore, he earned second team All-American honors and was a first team All-American as a junior.

That season, his final year with UCLA, he led the team in scoring.

At the end of his three-year collegiate career, he had scored a total of 38 goals and assisted on 24 others in 65 games.

Moore was inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame on October 11, 2014.