# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-w-cahill
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:01:14.421Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-w-cahill"
name: "Thomas W. Cahill"
slug: "thomas-w-cahill"
description: "Thomas William Cahill was one of the founding fathers of soccer in the United States, and is considered the most important administrator in U.S. Soccer before World War II. \nCahill formed the United States Football Association in 1913, which later became the United States Soccer Federation. In 1916 he became the first coach of the United States men's national soccer team. Cahill was enshrined in the U.S. National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1950."
tagline: "Irish American athlete, coach and businessman who was one of the founding fathers of soccer in the United States"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/ThomasWCahill.png/330px-ThomasWCahill.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1864-12-25"
deathDate: "1951-09-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.7
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.692910666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_W._Cahill"
    title: "Thomas W. Cahill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "توماس كاهيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84_(%D9%85%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A8_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%87_%D9%82%D8%AF%D9%85_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7)"
    title: "توماس كاهيل (مدرب كره قدم من امريكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%8D%D1%85%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%2C_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81"
    title: "Кэхилл, Томас"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cahill"
    title: "Thomas Cahill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cahill"
    title: "Thomas Cahill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10543345"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump