The first African nation to qualify for the World Cup was Egypt in 1934. The second was Morocco in 1970.
The CONCACAF Championship/Gold Cup, first held in 1963, has been won seven times by Mexico and four times by the USA.
The University of Virginia won four consecutive NCAA Div 1 men's soccer titles from 1991 to 1994.
The first appearance of organized women's soccer in the US may have been in 1922, when a team sponsored by English company Dick, Kerr toured the country -and beat several top men's teams.
The US Women have won the prestigious Algarve Cup tournament in Portugal five times as of 2007.