Hartwick College Athletics

Francisco Marcos was a soccer leader and trailblazer at Hartwick and has kept up those ways since his graduation in 1968.

At the time of induction, he was one of the most powerful soccer leaders in the United States as president and chief executive officer of the United Soccer Leagues. The USL has nearly 140 teams in five different leagues.

He also served as the commissioner of the A-League, ranked the second division of soccer behind Major League Soccer.

Marcos was on the Board of Directors for U.S. Soccer, the U.S. Soccer Foundation, the National Soccer Coaches of America, the National Soccer Hall of Fame and served on U.S. Soccer's Women's Professional Soccer Development Committee at the time of his induction.

He played three years of varsity soccer at Hartwick, helping the team to a 25-6-2 record. During his time in Oneonta, he started the Empire State Soccer League, helped start the Oneonta youth soccer leagues, hosted his own local television show on soccer and started a business setting up European tours for high school and college soccer teams.