In Norwich's Premier League game against Watford last week, U.S. international Sargent scored twice to help Norwich win 3-0, and Sargent also scored his first Premier League goal in this game. In the 30-year history of the Premier League, a total of 49 American players have played here, which of them are you impressed by?
The first American to play in the Premier League was John Hux, who joined Sheffield Wednesday in 1990 when the team was still in the second division and promoted to the top flight a season later. The 92-93 season is the first year of the Premier League, and Sheffield Wednesday is one of the 22 founding members of the Premier League, with Hucks making his Premier League debut in the second round of the league. He also played for West Ham United and Nottingham Forest in the Premier League, making a total of 46 appearances in the Premier League.
The Most Frequently Played American Player in the Premier League is goalkeeper Friedel, who joined Liverpool in December 1997 and did not get many opportunities to play, later playing for Blackburn, Aston Villa, Tottenham Hotspur became the main player, playing a total of 450 games in the Premier League, between 2004 and 2012, Frieder set a record of 310 consecutive Premier League games, a record that no one has broken so far.
The U.S. player who scored the most goals in the Premier League was "Captain America" Dempsey, who made 228 appearances and scored 57 goals. Dempsey moved to Fulham in January 2007 and scored his premier League goal in May of the same year, and he was the first American player to score a hat-trick in the Premier League. Dempsey is also the U.S. national team's all-time top scorer, coincidentally scoring 57 goals as well.
Although as many as 49 American players have played in the Premier League, only one of them has won the Premier League title, and he is the second goalkeeper Steffen, who currently plays for Manchester City, who won the Premier League with the team last season, but only lay down to win the championship medal, and he only made one appearance in the league last season.
With the explosion of American soccer talent, more and more American players will come to the Premier League, and their role in this league will become stronger and stronger.