Tag: Claude Campos
SOME HOME COOKING: A history of openers for the original Rochester Lancers
With the Rochester Lancers kicking off two seasons with a doubleheader at Charles A. Schiano Sr. Field at Aquinas Institute Sunday afternoon, it is fitting to look back at the 14 home openers of the original version of the team.
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IT WAS 50 YEARS AGO TODAY: Lancers took their first step toward the NASL
Yes, it was 50 years ago, Sept. 6, 1970, that the Lancers won the first game of their aggregate goal series against the Washington Darts. They still had to wait a week until to make it official.
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TOO CLOSE A CALL AT TARA: When Lancers’ black players experienced racism on and off the field in Atlanta in 1970
Since the Lancers were going to play a ridiculous back-to-back road games within 24 hours, reporter Alex Loj wrote in the Democrat and Chronicle that they “will encounter their toughest North American Soccer League schedule of the season.” He was correct, although there were other reasons for it.
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THE GREAT INDOORS – Part II: Original Lancers set the table decades ago
After a four-year hiatus, the Rochester Lancers returned to play indoor soccer in two tournaments before the 1975 and 1976 North American Soccer League seasons.
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ADDING FUEL TO THE FIRE: A war of words between GMs helped move Rochester-Toronto rivalry to another level
There is no book written on how to ignite a rivalry, but the Rochester Lancers and Toronto Metros in many ways wrote the proverbial book on how to move it up to another level.
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THE GREAT INDOORS — PART I: Original Lancers set the table decades ago
When the Rochester Lancers take to the Dome Arena field for their Major Arena Soccer League 2 opener against the Detroit Waza Flo Friday night, it may be the first game to be held at the Henrietta, N.Y. venue, but it won’t be the first time the sport has been played in the Flower City.
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DERBY WEEK — PART III: Rochester vs. Toronto was a soccer war and sometimes just a war and then some
Red Bulls head coach Jesse Marsch hit the nail on the head in 2015 when he talked about his team’s very first encounter with New York City FC.
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DERBY WEEK — PART III: Rochester vs. Toronto was a soccer war and sometimes just a war and then some
Red Bulls head coach Jesse Marsch hit the nail on the head in 2015 when he talked about his team’s very first encounter with New York City FC.
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DERBY WEEK — PART III: Rochester vs. Toronto was a soccer war and sometimes just a war and then some
The Rochester-Toronto rivalry in the original incarnation of the NASL was one doozy of a derby.
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PAST RIVALRIES — PART III: Rochester vs. Toronto was a soccer war and sometimes just a war and then some
The Rochester-Toronto rivalry was one of the most unique and fiercest confrontations in North American soccer back in the day.
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