“Big-Time Soccer” The Remarkable Rise & Fall of the NASL will have a special screening at the George Eastman Museum on Jan. 15 at 4 p.m.

The feature-length documentary, which was produced by Rachel Viollet, will be screened for Flower City Union supporters and fan owners. Viollet will attend to provide insight into the making of the movie.

A 90-minute feature length documentary about the original North American Soccer League that generated a soccer explosion in the United States during the 1970’s. This colorful, and oftentimes controversial league attracted some of the greatest players of their generation: Pele, George Best, Johan Cruyff, Bobby Moore, and Franz Beckenbauer. Crowds of seventy thousand flocked to games as the NASL brought star power to a country where soccer had been virtually invisible just a few years earlier.

The Flower City Union will make its National Independent Soccer Association debut in 2022.

For more information, visit:

https://tinyurl.com/ucc7cw4h

You also can buy tickets here:

https://app.gopassage.com/events/movie-premier-GA

Front Row Soccer editor Michael Lewis has covered 13 World Cups (eight men, five women), seven Olympics and 25 MLS Cups. He has written about New York City FC, New York Cosmos, the New York Red Bulls and both U.S. national teams for Newsday and has penned a soccer history column for the Guardian.com. Lewis, who has been honored by the Press Club of Long Island and National Soccer Coaches Association of America, is the former editor of BigAppleSoccer.com. He has written seven books about the beautiful game and has published ALIVE AND KICKING The incredible but true story of the Rochester Lancers. It is available at Amazon.com.