Alberto7 Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 Hi all, I just found the complete 1977 NASL Soccer Bowl on Youtube: Amazing to see Pele, Beckenbauer and Chinaglia on the same team. Love the 4-2-4 formation the Cosmos are playing. Please note that Canadian international Tony Chursky is playing in goal for Seattle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe MacCarthy Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 Just as an aside, does anyone know/remember the league's allocation (can't think of a better word) of players. Were internationals limited (how many)? Or was it mandated that there had to be so many domestic players (how many?) per side. Weren't Canadians considered domestic players throughout the league, kind of like what many wish MLS would be like now. Are there any links to this info? Tks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alberta white Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 This is from krjamieson, a new member to the ESG forums. thought it might fit in well to this thread 2013 Fall Schedule - Cosmos Return to Edmonton The NASL released the schedule for the 2013 Fall Championship. Two points of interest, first is the New York Cosmos first visit to Edmonton is 31 years. The second is the absence of the Puerto Rico Islanders from the schedule. In this post I will refrain from slagging the Islanders, there is enough of that going on already, instead I would like to look at the return of the Cosmos and its history with Edmonton. In 2013, the Labour Day weekend will have two major football games, the annual Eskimos-Stampeders game in Calgary on Monday, and - more importantly to soccer fans - the "return" of the New York Cosmos to Edmonton for the first time since July 7th, 1982. In their four-year NASL history, Edmonton hosted the vaunted Cosmos twice (once at Commonwealth Stadium - August 9th, 1981 - and once at Clarke Stadium - July 7th, 1982). In both games the local boys prevailed over the star-studded Cosmos (2-0 in 1981 and 2-1 in 1982). In all, the Drillers played the Cosmos four times, with the other two games being played at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ. Unfortunately, the Drillers were not as successful away against the glamour boys: losing 3-2 in a shootout on Augst 7th, 1980; and 3-1 on June 27th, 1982. All things considered, despite their overall unimpressive record over three years in the league (48-78 all-time regular season record), the Drillers did seem to take it up a notch for arguably the best team in the history of that league. Perhaps not having to play the Cosmos in their worst season, the 8-22 1979 season, didn't hurt. The Cosmos that will be here on Sunday September 1st is not the same team that packed in crowds of 70,000 plus in the late seventies. Pele and Giorgio Chinaglia (RIP) will not be around to mesmerize the fans. But this is the Cosmos, and Edmonton is one of the few cities in the World that the Cosmos have never won in. The Cosmos also made a visit to the River City in 1976, when they played Team Canada to a 1-1 draw. It is my hope that FC Edmonton is able to continue this statistic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alberto7 Posted February 12, 2013 Author Share Posted February 12, 2013 Just as an aside, does anyone know/remember the league's allocation (can't think of a better word) of players. Were internationals limited (how many)? Or was it mandated that there had to be so many domestic players (how many?) per side. Weren't Canadians considered domestic players throughout the league, kind of like what many wish MLS would be like now. Are there any links to this info? Tks Joe, I have several books on the NASL and it is very clear from them that in the first years teams could bring in any player they wanted regardless of nationality. A lot of teams like Portland or Seattle would import British players exclusively. Tony Waiters when he was coach of Vancouver said that he brought in British players and mixed them with young Canadians who , in his opinion, were better than American players. In later years, teams had to have a minimum (2 or 3) North American players(Canadians and Americans were all considered domestic players) on the roster but did not have to play them. Later still, towards the end of the league's existence, I believe they had to have two North American players on the field at all times. I don't have any web links to support what I have just written but the book Playing For Uncle Sam: The Brits story of the North American Soccer League by David Tossell talks about this a great deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe MacCarthy Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Tks Alberto, appreciate it. And also appreciate the work you do with NFB, I'm a frequent stream viewer. The film on making a fur coat, I thought was fascinating, no kidding. I prefer that kind of thing to the more "politically" angled films. My two cents from a loyal viewer. Back to our regularly scheduled thread. Oh yeah, thanks again for the NASL info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alberto7 Posted February 14, 2013 Author Share Posted February 14, 2013 Tks Alberto, appreciate it. And also appreciate the work you do with NFB, I'm a frequent stream viewer. The film on making a fur coat, I thought was fascinating, no kidding. I prefer that kind of thing to the more "politically" angled films. My two cents from a loyal viewer. Back to our regularly scheduled thread. Oh yeah, thanks again for the NASL info. Thank you for those kind words Joe. If you ever have any questions about the NFB collection, just send me a private message. Re NASL: Just read last night that Howard Samuels, the NASL commissioner in 1984, wanted to increase the amount of domestic players on the field for every game to 5 players for that season but the owners said no. Sadly this was the league's final season and Samuels would die of a heart attack early in 1985. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soju Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Wow great YouTube channel. For those who lived through both eras, did the NASL have a higher technical level than today's MLS? The first touch, vision and movement off the ball by these NASL teams seems superior. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alberta white Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 So far watch the first half. Never seen it before its great! Love the Comentary. Forerunners of the Sandor/ Hampshire show at Edmonton. Also indicates well, the perils of in-play advertizing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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