Tim Howard — The Secretary of Defense

They called him the Secretary of Defense, and on that humid night in Salvador, Tim Howard became a legend. Sixteen saves—a record that echoed across the fifty states. From the boardwalks of Jersey to the bright lights of the MLS, his gloved hands defied physics and logic alike. As we look toward the Coast to Coast Final, his legacy remains the gold standard: a sentinel in the red, white, and blue, proving that the American spirit is defined by the refusal to let anything past.