2025 USA Blind Soccer Men’s National Team

Noah Beckman, 31, has played soccer since the age of six and has also been involved in swimming, wrestling, track, beep baseball, hockey and goalball. He became active with blind soccer in 2018 and has participated in numerous USA Blind Soccer talent identification camps. A member of the inaugural USA Blind Soccer Men’s National Team in 2022, he netted a goal in the team’s 3-0 victory over Canada in an international friendly in March 2023. In high school, Beckman placed individually in several wrestling, track and swimming events and led his goalball team to a second-place finish in the conference. As an adult, he led his goalball team to a final-four finish at the USABA National Championships in 2016 and a runner-up finish in 2019. Beckman plays beep baseball with the Chicago Comets and practices regularly with a blind hockey program in Columbus.

Charles Catherine, 35, is a former elite blind triathlete, originally from France, who was an alternate on the inaugural USA Blind Soccer Men’s National Team in 2022. A 2012 graduate of Sciences Po Bordeaux, France, Catherine holds a master’s degree in international relations and works as the director of corporate and government relations for the National Organization on Disability (NOD). He is also a classical pianist, a husband, and the happy father of two beautiful girls.

Born with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative visual impairment, Antoine Craig started losing his eyesight in 2010 and retains about four percent of his vision. He had never ran track before losing his sight but picked up running after receiving mobility training at his gym. He was introduced to running with a guide when he reached out to a local disability organization, and went on to compete in  his first Paralympic competition at the 2017 Desert Challenge Games where he won three medals, including gold in the 400-meters. Craig also competed in the 2019 ParaPan American Games in Lima and the 2023 ParaPan American Games in Santiago. Craig began training with the Blind Soccer National Team in early 2025 and competed in the 2025 Azteca Cup as part of the first USA Blind Soccer Men’s National Team to compete in an international tournament,

For Alvaro Mora Arellano, 36, soccer has always been his first love. As a young boy, he dreamt of being on a real soccer field dribbling the ball as part of a team. He was introduced to goalball as a teenager in Mexico and liked it because of its similarities to soccer. Mora Arellano attended his first blind soccer clinic in 2019 after seeing an invitation in the USABA monthly newsletter. As a member of the first USA Blind Soccer Men’s National Team named in 2022, he made history by scoring the first goal in the team’s history during an international friendly with Canada.

Mark Baker Jr., Mark Baker was born in New Jersey and grew up in Mooresville, North Carolina. He was a three-year varsity letterman at Mooresville Senior High School and was a two-year starting goalkeeper at the collegiate club level. Mark played semi-pro soccer for Queen City FC (UPSL) in Charlotte, North Carolina, and for the St. Louis Ambush (MASL). He enjoys coaching young players and serves as the Academy Goalkeeping Coach for the Fox Soccer Academy Carolinas.