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{{Short description|American soccer player}}
{{Use American English|date=January 2017}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Joe Gaetjens
| image = Joe Gaetjens.jpg
| caption = 
| fullname = Joseph Edouard Gaetjens
| birth_date = {{birth date|1924|3|19}}
| birth_place = [[Port-au-Prince]], [[Republic of Haiti (1859–1957)|Haiti]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1964|7|10|1924|3|19}}
| death_place = Port-au-Prince, [[Duvalier dynasty|Haiti]]
| height = {{height|ft=5|in=10}}
| position = [[Center forward]]
| youthyears1 = 
| youthclubs1 = 
| years1 = 1938–1947
| clubs1 = [[Etoile Haïtienne]]
| caps1 = 
| goals1 = 
| years2 = 1947–1950
| clubs2 = [[Brookhattan]]
| caps2 = 64
| goals2 = 42
| years3 = 1951–1952
| clubs3 = [[Racing Club de France football Colombes 92|Racing Club de Paris]]
| caps3 = 4
| goals3 = 2
| years4 = 1952–1953
| clubs4 = [[Olympique Alès]]
| caps4 = 15
| goals4 = 2
| years5 = 1953–1957<!--Lesly Gaetjen, son, mentions a "few" months after his birth (November 1956)-->
| clubs5 = Etoile Haïtienne
| caps5 = 
| goals5 = 
| totalcaps = 
| totalgoals = 
| nationalyears1 = 1944–1953
| nationalteam1 = [[Haiti national football team|Haiti]]
| nationalcaps1 = 3
| nationalgoals1 = 0
| nationalyears2 = 1950
| nationalteam2 = [[United States men's national soccer team|United States]]
| nationalcaps2 = 3
| nationalgoals2 = 1
}}

'''Joseph Edouard Gaetjens''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|ɡ|eɪ|dʒ|ɛ|n|z}} {{respell|GAY|jenz}};<ref>{{cite web | url=http://soccernet.espn.go.com/world-cup/story/_/page/worldcup101-05302010/ce/us/goal-ghost-story-joe-gaetjens?cc=5901&ver=us | title=A Goal, A Ghost | publisher=[[ESPNsoccernet]] | access-date=May 31, 2010 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100603222816/http://soccernet.espn.go.com/world-cup/story/_/page/worldcup101-05302010/ce/us/goal-ghost-story-joe-gaetjens?cc=5901&ver=us | archive-date=June 3, 2010 | df=mdy-all }}</ref> {{nowrap|March 19}}, 1924 – {{nowrap|July 10}}, 1964 [[Declared death in absentia|[presumed]]]) was a professional [[Association football|soccer]] player who played as a [[center forward]]. Born in [[Haiti]], he represented [[Haiti national football team|its national team]] before and after playing for the [[United States men's national soccer team|United States team]] in the [[1950 FIFA World Cup]], in which he scored the winning goal in the [[United States v England (1950 FIFA World Cup)|1–0 upset]] of [[England national football team|England]].

Gaetjens won his home [[Ligue Haïtienne|national championship]] in 1942 and 1944 with top-level [[Etoile Haïtienne]]. He then moved to the [[American Soccer League (1933–1983)|American Soccer League]] (ASL) and led all players with 18 goals in 15 games for New York's [[Brookhattan]] during the 1949–50 season. He was posthumously inducted into the United States [[National Soccer Hall of Fame]] in 1976.

Gaetjens is among the ''Les 100 Héros de la Coupe du Monde'' ("100 Heroes of the World Cup"), which included the top 100 World Cup Players from 1930 to 1990, a list drawn up in 1994 by the [[France Football]] magazine based exclusively on their performances at World Cup level.

== Early life ==
Joe Gaetjens was born in Haiti's capital of [[Port-au-Prince]] on March 19, 1924, to Edmond and Antonine Defay, a well-to-do [[Haiti]]an family who lived in an upscale neighborhood of Port-au-Prince called [[Bois Verna]]. His great-grandfather Thomas, was a native of [[Bremen]], in northern Germany, who supposedly had been sent to Haiti by [[Frederick William III of Prussia|Frederick William III]], the King of [[Prussia]], as a business emissary arriving shortly after 1825; although the validity for this claim is uncertain by family members.<ref name="L.Gaetjens">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LVbRAQAAQBAJ |title=The Shot Heard Around the World: The Joe Gaetjens Story |author=Gaetjens, Lesly |pages=1, 3–4, 16, 24 |year=2010 |publisher=Lulu.com |isbn=9780557612314 |access-date=April 17, 2016}}</ref><ref name="espn">{{cite news|url=https://www.espn.com/core/world-cup/story/_/id/4937012/ce/us/real-story-1950-world-cup-hero |title=Chasing Gaetjens |first=Leander |last=Schaerlaeckens |publisher=[[ESPNsoccernet]] |date=February 26, 2010 |access-date=February 26, 2010 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160417151427/http://espn.go.com/core/world-cup/story/_/id/4937012/ce/us/real-story-1950-world-cup-hero |archive-date=April 17, 2016 }}</ref> He married Leonie Déjoie, whose father was a general in a time where Haiti's independence was officially recognized by France. The family was quite prosperous, and although by the time of Joe's birth their wealth had decreased significantly after the [[United States occupation of Haiti]] (1915–34), in which the economic isolation of Germany due to [[World War I]] and conflicts over family assets between sons took its toll on the family's business interests, they were still living among the Haitian elite. When Gaetjens was born, his father registered his [[birth certificate]] with the German embassy, in case he ever wanted to gain German citizenship.<ref name="espn"/>

==Club career==

===Etoile Haïtienne===
Gaetjens joined [[Etoile Haïtienne]] at the age of fourteen and won two [[Ligue Haïtienne]] championships in 1942 and 1944. In his first championship appearance, at the age of eighteen, came against longer established [[Racing Club Haïtien]], another club in [[Port-au-Prince]].{{refn|group=note|According to the Rec Sport Soccer Statistics Foundation, rsssf.com, cup matches were played throughout the country, but the national championships were restricted to top-level clubs from Port-au-Prince only, and a few surrounding areas within. It wasn't until 1988, that the national championship was fully integrated in to league format outside of the capital.<ref name="haitichamp">{{cite web|title=Haiti – List of Champions |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesh/haitichamp.html |access-date=April 17, 2016 |url-status=live |website=[[RSSSF]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304024733/http://www.rsssf.com/tablesh/haitichamp.html |archive-date=March 4, 2016 }}</ref>}} Down 3–0 at halftime and a [[Heckler|heckling]] goalkeeper directed at Gaetjens after each goal scored, "Ti-Joe" urged his teammates to hold its defense to allow no more goals. Less than ten minutes after Racing's last goal, Gaetjens rebounded and scored to break the shutout. At the 53rd minute, Fritz Joseph scored. With seven minutes remaining, Frérot Rouzier scored the tying goal equalizing the match at 3–3. At the final minutes of regulation, a defiant Gaetjens kept on the offense, breaking the tie at 3–4, which ended up being the game-winner.<ref name="L.Gaetjens"/><ref name="1942/43">[https://www.rsssf.org/tablesh/haiti43.html RSSSF – Haiti 1942/43]</ref> To this day, Racing Club Haïtien refuses to play matches on the "[[Maundy Thursday|Jeudi Saint]]" (''Holy Thursday''); the day of ''washing of the feet.''<ref name="1942/43"/> During his tenure with the club, he became known for his goal-scoring headers.<ref name="BBC">{{cite web|last=Gee |first=Alison |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26515082 |title=BBC News – Joe Gaetjens – the footballer who disappeared |publisher=Bbc.co.uk |date=March 22, 2014 |access-date=April 22, 2014}}</ref>

===Brookhattan===
Gaetjens went to [[New York City]] in 1947 to study accounting at [[Columbia University]] on a scholarship from the Haitian government and concluded that he could not make a living from professional soccer in Haiti. During this time, he played three seasons for [[Brookhattan]] of the [[American Soccer League (1933–1983)|American Soccer League]] (ASL). In his first season during 1947–48, he scored the second-most goals in the league with 14.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.si.com/vault/2010/03/08/105910854/the-hero-who-vanished |title=The Hero Who Vanished |editor=Wolff, Alexander |date=March 8, 2010 |publisher=Vault (Sports Illustrated) |access-date=April 20, 2016}}</ref><ref name="SoccerStats51"/><ref>{{cite web|title=The Year in American Soccer – 1948 |editor=Litterer, David |publisher=American Soccer History Archives |date=May 30, 2008 |url=http://homepages.sover.net/~spectrum/year/1948.html |access-date=April 27, 2016 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315082942/http://homepages.sover.net/~spectrum/year/1948.html |archive-date=March 15, 2016 }}</ref> In his third season, he won the league's scoring title totaling 18 goals in 15 games during 1949–50.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesu/usatops.html |title=USA – Leading Goalscorers in US Professional Soccer |editor=Litterer, David A. |date=September 2, 2010 |website=[[RSSSF]] |access-date=April 27, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Year in American Soccer – 1950 |editor=Litterer, David |publisher=American Soccer History Archives |date=June 6, 2004 |url=http://homepages.sover.net/~spectrum/year/1950.html |access-date=April 27, 2016 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316031328/http://homepages.sover.net/~spectrum/year/1950.html |archive-date=March 16, 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.si.com/longform/soccer-goals/goal3.html |title=The 10 Most Significant Goals in U.S. Soccer History |editor=Wahl, Grant |date=May 13, 2014 |publisher=Sports Illustrated |access-date=April 17, 2016}}</ref> He was making $25 per game, while also working for the Brookhattan owner's restaurant and washing dishes.<ref name="BBC"/>

===Racing Club de Paris and Olympique Alès===
At the end of the World Cup, Gaetjens left for France to play in [[Ligue 1|Division 1]], where he briefly played for [[Racing Club de France football Colombes 92|Racing Club de Paris]]; scoring twice in four games and then for [[Ligue 2|Division 2]] [[Olympique Alès]]; scoring twice in fifteen games.<ref name="espn"/><ref>[http://www.stades-spectateurs.com/affluences,France,1952.html Stades et Spectateurs – Moyennes d'affluences de Spectateurs France 1952]</ref>

===Etoile Haïtienne===
Gaetjens returned to Haiti in 1954 and remained active in soccer, rejoining Etoile Haïtienne,<ref name="espn"/> and also became a spokesman for [[Colgate-Palmolive]]. He played a few seasons and then left the game for good in 1957, a few months after the birth of his first son.<ref name="L.Gaetjens"/>

==International career==

===Haiti===
Gaetjens debuted on the international scene on April 2, 1944, for the Haiti national team, losing to [[Curaçao national football team|Curaçao]], 0–5. In the following match on April 5, 1944, against [[Venezuela national football team|Venezuela]], the Haitian team was shut out 0–2. Both matches were friendlies.<ref name="intapp">[https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/gaetjens-intlg.html Joseph Gaetjens – International Appearances]</ref>

===United States===
His success with Brookhattan attracted the attention of [[United States Soccer Federation|U.S. Soccer]], and Gaetjens made the national team for the 1950 World Cup.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/double-caps.html |title=Players Appearing for Two or More Countries |access-date=July 9, 2014 |url-status=live |website=[[RSSSF]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080803173844/http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/double-caps.html |archive-date=August 3, 2008 }}</ref>

Gaetjens played three games at the World Cup, including one of the greatest World Cup upsets in history, in which Gaetjens scored the only goal in a [[United States v England (1950 FIFA World Cup)|1–0 victory in which the American soccer team defeated the hugely favored English]] at [[Belo Horizonte]]. [[Walter Bahr]] had taken a shot from about 25 yards away and the ball was heading to goalkeeper [[Bert Williams (footballer, born 1920)|Bert Williams]]'s right. It appeared to be a relatively easy save, but Gaetjens dove headlong and grazed the ball enough that it went to the goalkeeper's left instead, with his momentum preventing him from stopping the ball. Williams later considered the goal to be a result of a lucky deflection, but this view was disputed by [[Laurie Hughes]], who was defending Gaetjens on the play.<ref name="espn"/>

Although Gaetjens was not a United States citizen, he had declared his intention of becoming one, and under the rules of the United States Soccer Football Association at that time was allowed to play. However, Gaetjens never actually did gain American citizenship.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/sports/soccer/10soccer.html?hpw | first=Jere | last=Longman | title=How a 'Band of No-Hopers' Forged U.S. Soccer's Finest Day | work=The New York Times | date=December 10, 2009}}</ref>

===Return to Haiti===
On December 27, 1953, Gaetjens played in a World Cup Qualifier for [[Haiti]] against [[Mexico national football team|Mexico]].<ref name="intapp"/>

== Death and legacy ==
Gaetjens was not interested in politics, but his family was. He was related to [[Louis Déjoie]] (his great-grandfather Thomas married Leonie Déjoie), who lost the [[Haitian general election, 1957|1957 Haitian presidential election]] to [[François Duvalier|François "Papa Doc" Duvalier]], and although the family also had connections to the new president, Gaetjens's younger brothers Jean-Pierre and Fred became associated with a group of exiles in the [[Dominican Republic]] who wanted to stage a [[Coup d'état|coup]].<ref name="espn"/>

On {{nowrap|July 8}}, 1964, the morning after Duvalier declared himself "president for life", the rest of the Gaetjens family fled the country in fear of reprisal for the younger Gaetjens brothers' rebellious associations, but Joe stayed, thinking that Duvalier's regime would be uninterested in him since he was only a sports figure. That morning, he was arrested by the secret police—the [[Tonton Macoute]]s—and was taken to a prison called [[Fort Dimanche]] notorious for its brutally inhumane practices,<ref name="espn"/> where it is presumed he was killed some time later that month. His body has never been found.{{citation needed|date=January 2020}}

In 1972, Gaetjens was honored in a benefit game involving the [[New York Cosmos (1970–85)|New York Cosmos]] and a team composed of local Haitians at [[Yankee Stadium (1923)|Yankee Stadium]]. Joe Gaetjens was posthumously inducted into the United States [[National Soccer Hall of Fame]] in 1976.<ref name="espn"/>

In 2010, his son Lesly Gaetjens wrote a biography about his father: ''The Shot Heard Around the World: The Joe Gaetjens Story''.<ref name="L.Gaetjens"/>

===Number search===
The jersey number worn by Gaetjens during the 1950 World Cup match against England remains unknown, with several accounts from family members and historians unable to verify various claims. The number was not recorded in an official match report; the [[National Soccer Hall of Fame]] stated the number was 18 and cited [[Walter Bahr]], but he was unable to verify the claim. An unnamed [[ESPN]] producer for "[[Outside the Lines]]" who worked with footage of the match for a special dedicated to Gaetjens stated to an ESPN journalist that they were "98 or 99 percent sure" that the number was 18.<ref name="Schaerlaeckens">{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/core/world-cup/columns/story/_/id/5268160/ce/us/the-search-joe-gaetjens-number |title=The search for Joe Gaetjens' number |editor=Schaerlaeckens, Leander |date=June 10, 2010 |publisher=ESPN |access-date=April 19, 2016 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160420021110/http://espn.go.com/core/world-cup/columns/story/_/id/5268160/ce/us/the-search-joe-gaetjens-number |archive-date=April 20, 2016 }}</ref>

===Film controversy===
Gaetjens, although light-skinned, was portrayed by "dark-skinned" Haitian actor [[Jimmy Jean-Louis]] in the 2005 film ''[[The Game of Their Lives (2005 film)|The Game of Their Lives]].'' He was also depicted as a practitioner of [[Haitian Vodou|Voodoo]], which outraged his family, leading them to proclaim how ludicrously inaccurate the interpretation was.<ref name="espn"/><ref name="Hall">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3RbzX4PjxtgC |title=Historical Dictionary of Haiti |editor=Hall, Michael R. |page=117|year=2012 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=9780810878105 |access-date=April 17, 2016}}</ref> In reality, Gaetjens, like most Haitians, grew up as a [[Catholicism|Catholic]] and went to church every Sunday. His sister, Mireille, voiced her displeasure and condemned the notion over a phone interview by saying: "Our family traded rum and coffee and ran schools... No family member was into voodoo. I've ''never'' even seen voodoo being practiced. Nobody in the family has ''ever'' even set foot in a voodoo church!"<ref name="espn"/>

==Personal life==
When Gaetjens first arrived in the US from Haiti, he was mistaken for [[Belgium|Belgian]] of the [[Flemish dialects|Flemish]]-speaking part of the country, due to the sounding of his surname ending in ''-tjens'' and the fact that migration in waves from Belgium were common during the 19th century. However, his great-grandfather was from Bremen of northern Germany and the Gaetjens name is not common in Flanders. Although, a variant does exist over Germany's northern border in [[Denmark]] as ''Gätjens''.<ref name="espn"/>

Gaetjens was a fluent speaker of French, Spanish and English.<ref name="espn"/>

==Honors==

===Club===
====Etoile Haïtienne====
*[[Ligue Haïtienne]]: 1942, 1944

====Brookhattan====
*Runner-up [[Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup|National Challenge Cup]]: [[1948 National Challenge Cup|1948]]

===Individual===
*Inducted into the United States [[National Soccer Hall of Fame]]: 1976<ref name="espn"/>
*[[France Football]]: [[FIFA World Cup|World Cup]] Top-100 1930–1990<ref>[https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/ff-wc100.html France Football's World Cup Top-100 1930–1990] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091006124042/http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/ff-wc100.html |date=October 6, 2009 }} Retrieved on January 27, 2016</ref>
*NSCAA Honorary All-America Award: 2015<ref>[http://www.nscaa.com/news/2010/11/joe-gaetjens-to-receive-nscaa-honorary-allamerica-award NSCAA – Joe Gaetjens to Receive NSCAA Honorary All-America Award] Retrieved on April 25, 2016</ref>

====Performances====
* [[American Soccer League (1933–83)|ASL Golden Boot]]: [[1949–50 American Soccer League|1950]]<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160427074901/http://soccerstats.us/c/us-open-cup/1950/ SoccerStats.us – U.S. Open Cup 1950]</ref>

==Career statistics==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! rowspan="2" style="width:100px;"|Club
!rowspan="2"|Season{{refn|group=note|According to the American Soccer History Archives, the champion was determined by top-record. If tied, a playoff would be adopted by the ASL to determine the winner.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Year in American Soccer – 1949 |editor1=Holroyd, Steve |editor2=Litterer, David |publisher=American Soccer History Archives |date=March 20, 2005 |url=http://homepages.sover.net/~spectrum/year/1949.html |access-date=April 27, 2016 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315152247/http://homepages.sover.net/~spectrum/year/1949.html |archive-date=March 15, 2016 }}</ref>}}
!colspan="2"|[[American Soccer League (1933–1983)|League]]<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20141018205256/http://soccerstats.us/bios/joe-gaetjens/ SoccerStats.us – Joe Gaetjens]</ref>
!colspan="2"|[[Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup|U.S. Open Cup]]<ref name="SoccerStatsGames">[https://web.archive.org/web/20160427053259/http://soccerstats.us/bios/joe-gaetjens/games/ SoccerStats – Joe Gaetjens: Games]</ref>
!colspan="2"|[[Lewis Cup]]<ref name="SoccerStatsGames"/>
!colspan="2"|[[Duffy Cup]]<ref name="SoccerStatsGames"/>
!colspan="2"|Friendlies<ref name="SoccerStatsGames"/>
!colspan="2"|Total
|-
!width="40"|Apps
!width="40"|Goals
!width="40"|Apps
!width="40"|Goals
!width="40"|Apps
!width="40"|Goals
!width="40"|Apps
!width="40"|Goals
!width="40"|Apps
!width="40"|Goals
!width="40"|Apps*{{refn|group=note|Total games played unavailable; individual games revealed usually only when goals were scored. This number reflects the total games played by Brookhattan during these seasons. In the 1950–51 season, games are not incurred for 1951 since Gaetjens wasn't with the club.<ref>{{cite web|title=Brookhattan: All Games |publisher=SoccerStats |url=http://soccerstats.us/teams/brookhattan/games/?csrfmiddlewaretoken=BpmZ2MCDGiDHFviEVDCPKfwBN3VAfb1W&result=&competition=&stadium=&opponent=&year=&year_filter= |access-date=April 27, 2016 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160427071508/http://soccerstats.us/teams/brookhattan/games/?csrfmiddlewaretoken=BpmZ2MCDGiDHFviEVDCPKfwBN3VAfb1W&result=&competition=&stadium=&opponent=&year=&year_filter= |archive-date=April 27, 2016 }}</ref>}}
!width="40"|Goals
|-
| rowspan="7" style="vertical-align:top;"|'''[[Brookhattan]]'''
|1947–48
|20||14||style="background:silver"| ||style="background:silver"| ||style="background:silver"| ||style="background:silver"| ||style="background:silver"| ||style="background:silver"| ||style="background:silver"| ||style="background:silver"| ||20||14
|-
|1948
|style="background:silver"| ||style="background:silver"| ||6||1||3||3||style="background:silver"| ||style="background:silver"| ||style="background:silver"| ||style="background:silver"| ||9||4
|-
|1948–49
|17||4||style="background:silver"| ||style="background:silver"| ||style="background:silver"| ||style="background:silver"| ||style="background:silver"| ||style="background:silver"| ||style="background:silver"| ||style="background:silver"| ||17||4
|-
|1949
|style="background:silver"| ||style="background:silver"| ||2||0||3||2||1||1||style="background:silver"| ||style="background:silver"| ||6||3
|-
|1949–50
|15||18||style="background:silver"| ||style="background:silver"| ||style="background:silver"| ||style="background:silver"| ||style="background:silver"| ||style="background:silver"| ||style="background:silver"| ||style="background:silver"| ||15||18
|-
|1950
|style="background:silver"| ||style="background:silver"| ||6||4||4||2||5||0||1||1||16||7
|-
|1950–51{{refn|group=note|According to SoccerStats.us, Gaetjens did not finish the season for Brookhattan and did not play a game in 1951 for the ASL.<ref name="SoccerStats51">{{cite web|title=1950–1951 American Soccer League (1933–1983) – Joe Gaetjens |publisher=SoccerStats |url=http://soccerstats.us/bios/joe-gaetjens/games/?csrfmiddlewaretoken=sFMTYsNvZDF8eFTTg4Cu7JBGxp6ABSvi&result=&competition=&team=4125 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160420054612/http://soccerstats.us/bios/joe-gaetjens/games/?csrfmiddlewaretoken=sFMTYsNvZDF8eFTTg4Cu7JBGxp6ABSvi&result=&competition=&team=4125 |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 20, 2016 |access-date=April 27, 2016 }}</ref>}}
|12||6||style="background:silver"| ||style="background:silver"| ||style="background:silver"| ||style="background:silver"| ||style="background:silver"| ||style="background:silver"| ||style="background:silver"| ||style="background:silver"| ||12||6
|-
!colspan="2"|Total
!64!!42!!14!!5!!10!!7!!6!!1!!1!!1!!95!!56
|}

==References==
===Notes===
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===Citations===
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==External links==
*[http://national.soccerhall.org/famers/joe_gaetjens.htm Joe Gaetjens] at the [[National Soccer Hall of Fame]]
*{{FIFA player|49674}}
*{{Soccerway|joseph-gaetjens/108621}}
*{{NFT player|32125}}

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