Tag: Clive Toye
GUARDING PELE: Security was super important for Cosmos star
Pedro Garay remembered the incident well. It was 1975 and Pele and the New York Cosmos were visiting the Boston Minutemen.
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THE 1994 BID: How the U.S. got the World Cup
Thirty-four years ago today, FIFA awarded the United States the 1994 World Cup. Here is the inside story and background on how the USA secured the bid.
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FIRST TIME FOR EVERYTHING: When Pele scored his first NASL goal 47 years ago today
After he signed with the New York Cosmos in 1975, Brazilian great Pele scored a goal in his inaugural match with the team in a friendly draw with the Dallas Tornado. Several weeks later, on June 27, 1975, he found the back of the net for his first North American Soccer League tally in a 3-0 win over the Rochester Lancers.
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DOING THEIR BIDDING (PART I): When the USA showed interest in hosting the 1978 World Cup
Years before the United States bid for the 1994 World Cup, years prior to the failed bid for the 1986 world championship and decades before the combined bid with Mexico and Canada was granted to host the 2026 competition, this country’s governing soccer body expressed interest in the 1978 World Cup.
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DOING THEIR BIDDING (PART I): When the USA showed interest in hosting the 1978 World Cup
Years before the United States bid for the 1994 World Cup, years prior to the failed bid for the 1986 world championship and decades before the combined bid with Mexico and Canada was granted to host the 2026 competition, this country’s governing soccer body expressed interest in the 1978 World Cup.
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DOING THEIR BIDDING (PART I): When the USA showed interest in hosting the 1978 World Cup
Years before the United States bid for the 1994 World Cup, years prior to the failed bid for the 1986 world championship and decades before the combined bid with Mexico and Canada was granted to host the 2026 competition, this country’s governing soccer body expressed interest in the 1978 World Cup.
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OFFSIDE REMARKS: When the NASL’s Woosnam sought the Joe Namath of soccer in 1969
I realize American soccer fans aren’t into soccer history. In fact, history to many fans seems to be what happened five minutes ago, let alone, five, 25 or half a century ago.
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A GOAL OF A LIFETIME: Hunt looks back on his historic score at Soccer Bowl ’77 that helped Pele retire as a champion
Here’s the headline and photo of the New York Daily News that proclaimed the Cosmos 1977 NASL...
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THE 1994 BID: How the U.S. got the World Cup
It certainly was an innocuous and curious place to announce one’s intentions to host the world’s greatest sporting spectacle — in the lobby of a boys dormitory at Indiana Central University during the National Sports Festival in Indianapolis on July 30, 1982.
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BLACKED OUT: When the Cosmos finally saw the light in Rochester
Who says Rochester doesn’t offer anything to the world?
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THE 1994 BID: How the U.S. got the World Cup
Thirty years ago today, FIFA awarded the United States the 1994 World Cup.
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THE 1994 BID: How the U.S. got the World Cup
With FIFA ready to make a decision as to whether the combined bid of Mexico, Canada and the United States or Morocco could get the nod to host the 2026 World Cup in Moscow Wednesday, we thought it would be appropriate to understand some history about two U.S. World Cup bids for the 1986 and 1994 World Cups.
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