#OnThisDay in 1968 – Goals by Jorgan Christianson & Lars Heinemann gave #DetroitCougars a 2:0 victory against the hosts #Haiti to conclude its #NASL Preseason, before 12,000 fans, at Port-au-Prince’s Stade Parc Leconte. Detroit concluded the Caribbean tour w/a 7-1 overall record.

"Bernd Hölzenbein - Der Weg in eine neue Welt"

(Aus: Fuma Juli/August 1981)

#hölzenbein #holz #sge #fortlauderdale #nasl #dfb #botd #happybirthday

Resilient comes to mind.

1st-yr NYCFC SD Todd Dunivant spoke of his initiation in management after winning 5 MLS Cups as a player.

It was w/ the SF Deltas along w/ current #LAFC coach Marc Dos Santos - winning #NASL in 1st & ONLY year of franchise.

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Old Yale Brewing in Leduc has this beauty hanging on the wall. It might be older than I am. A very good chance in fact.

#NASL #CanPL

Blame the LA Aztecs for my soccer obsession. George Best, Steve David and crew put on a good show.
Unfortunately, 1970s LA wasn't the soccer hotbed it is now and the team struggled at the gate. #LAAztecs #NASL #MLS

Check out the the history at: https://bit.ly/LaAztecs

#OnThisDay in 1968 – As part of its world tour, #DallasTornado defeated hosts #Fiji, 10:2, in a friendly that was played only 60 minutes due to 100-degree heat, in Suva. The crowd of 3,000 saw Chris Bachofner notched a hat-trick (3 goals) for #NASL club.

413: John Buchanan and Billy Ronson, Cardiff City, Panini’s Football 80 This week we are taking on a request post from Mark of Football Art Online fame. If you haven’t already familiarised yourself with his exce...

Today would have been Billy Ronson's 69th birthday.

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A diminutive and skilful midfielder who made waves on both sides of the Atlantic.

#BlackpoolFC #CCFC #WrexhamAFC #BarnsleyFC #FortLauderdaleStrikers #TampaBayRowdies #EFL #NASL #football

PONY Boots – Sounds like Equestrian Apparel The Cleats weren’t half bad though. PONY—an acronym for Product Of New York—was founded in 1972 at a moment when… Read more »

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#PONY #Soccer #NASL #Pele

At my son's hockey and I look up and see this relic.

#NASL #FCEd #yeg

The 1979 Vancouver #Whitecaps made history, winning the NASL Soccer Bowl championship! The 'Caps' playoff run created a soccer fever in Vancouver that resonates to this day. Check out the story in this issue of #KickMagazine

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#SportsHistory #NASL

The best!
#NASL 1977/78 season: Bermudian striker #ClydeBest ( #PortlandTimbers) with Northern Ireland's star #GeorgeBest ( #LosAngelesAztecs).

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This would almost mirror the succession plan as when Cherundolo was hired, having previously been HC at Las Vegas Lights when LAFC had control of the playing operations.

Dos Santos has achieved success in the #USL-C and #NASL previously, too, would be nice to see him get this opportunity.

2009 #NASL promo scarf status update.

Only 4/11 teams hanging on, 3 of those in #MLS. Of the living, only Vancouver & TB still carry the same club name (TB of course had to spend 2 years as "FC Tampa Bay" due to IP issues).

TB is the sole lower division survivor from this period.

#USL

I guess the experts thought Soccer had “arrived” in the USA back in August of 1972. Soccer Arrives—Or DID It? Back in August 1972, a local newspaper headline triumphantly declared that “Soccer Arrives—Traffic Proves It.” The… Read more »

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#USA #Soccer #NASL #MLS

Famed soccer writer Colin Jose's detailed history of Americas first pro soccer league. See the records, results, the goal scorers and the squads that made up the American Soccer League from 1921 to 1931.
#SportsHistory #ASL #NASL #mlssoccer #uslsoccer
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#OnThisDay in 1984 – #ChicagoSting captured its 2nd #SoccerBowl trophy after defeating hosts #TorontoBlizzard, 3:2, in 2nd game & clinched #NASL Final Series, before 16,842 fans, at #Canada’s Varsity Stadium. Pato Margetic scored twice for #Chicago.

#OnThisDay in 1981 – 1st #NASL #SoccerBowl determined via shootout (SO) as #ChicagoSting defeated #NewYorkCosmos, 2:1, after a scoreless final, before a crowd of 36,971 at #Canada’s Exhibition Stadium. Rudy Glenn scored the winning tally in the SO for Chicago’s 1st championship.

Soccer Bowl '77 in Portland arguably the NASL high point. Check out the April '78 issue of Soccer Express Magazine’s featuring #Pele's farewell & its impact on the #NASL #Cosmos #Sounders #Timbers. Relive it: #RetroSoccer

Re-live the moment at: https://bit.ly/SoccerBowl77

#OnThisDay in 1980 – Giorgio Chinaglia scored twice while Julio César Romero added 1 for the #NewYorkCosmos as it captured its 4th #NASL #SoccerBowl Trophy after defeating #FortLauderdaleStrikers, 3:0, before a crowd of 50,786, at Washington, D.C.’s RFK Stadium.

#OnThisDay in 1978 – Kim Jae-Han scored twice to lead the hosts #KoreaRepublic to a 6:2 victory against #WashingtonDiplomats in championship game of President’s Cup at Seoul's Dongdaemun Stadium. Mike Bakić & Bobby Stokes tallied for the #NASL side.

#OnThisDay in 1982 – Giorgio Chinaglia scored the game-winner as #NewYorkCosmos lifted its 5th #SoccerBowl Trophy after defeating #SeattleSounders, 1:0, in the #NASL Final, before a crowd of 22,634, at San Diego’s Jack Murphy Stadium.

As I continue to research my archives, I stumble into some interesting stuff. Here is a Boston Minutemen media notes from 1975, with a familiar name on the first page -
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#NASL #ShepMessing #NYCosmos #NYArrows

...Also, on that day in 1980, at the conclusion of the #BrooklynDodgersSC-#CruzAzul game at #GiantsStadium, another hat-trick (3 goals) from Giorgio Chinaglia gave the hosts #NewYorkCosmos a sweep of the #NASL Conference Final Playoffs w/a 3:1 2nd leg victory against #LAAztecs.

#OnThisDay in 1978 – #WashingtonDiplomats became 1st U.S. club to compete at President’s Cup Tournament in Korea Republic, as it lost, 3:2, to the hosts at Seoul Stadium. Bill Irwin & Ray Graydon scored for #NASL club, while, Kim Jae-Han had 2 goals & Kim Sung-Nam added 1 for the home side.

#OnThisDay in 1979 – Trevor Whymark scored twice for #VancouverWhitecapsFC as it became the 2nd Canadian club to lift #NASL #SoccerBowl Trophy after defeating #TampaBayRowdies, 2:1, in the final, before a crowd of 50,699, at #GiantsStadium.

#OnThisDay in 1970 – Renato Herrera Costa scored twice, while Luis Marotte added a tally to give hosts #RochesterLancers a 3:0 victory over #WashingtonDarts, in 1st leg of #NASL Championship Final, before crowd of 9,321, at #AquinasMemorialStadium.

Throwback to the days when shorts were short and the soccer was epic! Read up and re-live all the events that surrounded the beautiful game—with an American perspective. bit.ly/SHCnasl
#SportsMemorabilia #VintageSoccer #NASLhistory #SportsHistory #MLS #NASL

THE GAME THAT WOULDN'T END Looking back at a 176-minute match 54 years ago today

Today is the 54th anniversary of the longest game played in professional soccer in the USA, when the Rochester Lancers outlasted the Dallas Tornado in a 176-minute marathon.

Read on in my latest View From The Front Row piece.

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