Tag: Tulsa Roughnecks
GOODBYE, TOMMY: Ord, former NASL player (Lancers, Cosmos, Sounders), passes away
Tommy Ord, who played for the New York Cosmos, Rochester Lancers and Seattle Sounders, among several days and who made North American Soccer League history, has passed away.
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THROWBACK FRIDAY: Cosmos won the 1982 Soccer Bowl 38 years ago today
No one realized it at the time, but the 1982 Soccer Bowl was going to be the last hurrah for the Cosmos and that they would have to wait almost three decades before they would return to the North American Soccer League championship game in 2013.
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OFFSIDE REMARKS: Some lessons from a strike 41 years ago
Ron Newman always had dreams of playing on the same soccer team as his son, Guy, he just didn’t think it would turn out this way.
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THE WRITING IS ON THE WALL: Bergamo, Brand, Gori, Jacobson elected to the Lancers Wall of Fame
The Rochester Lancers’ Wall of Fame class will include three former players from the original team that played in the American Soccer League and North American Soccer League and a former writer who covered the club for several years.
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SEVENTH HEAVEN: The night Chinaglia scored 7 goals in a playoff game
Giorgio Chinaglia forged his reputation scoring goals, lots of goals. But he never quite experienced an outdoor game like the one he did Aug. 31, 1981.
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DOING THE CHARLESTON: Red Bulls II face Battery in USL quarterfinals Saturday
The second-seeded Charleston Battery will host seventh-seeded and defending champion Red Bulls II in the Eastern Conference quarterfinals of the United Soccer League playoffs at MUSC Health Stadium in Charleston, S.C. Saturday night at 7 p.m. ET.
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THREE MORE CUPSETS: Results of U.S. Open Cup
The fourth round of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup served up three “Cupsets” as the United Soccer League’s FC Cincinnati and Sacramento Republic FC and North American Soccer League’s Miami FC moved on to join 13 Major League Soccer sides in the Round of 16.
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PARTY SPOILERS: Dynamo ruin Lancers’ opener, score in final seconds for win
Some action from the Rochester Lancers-Dayton Dynamo game. (Photo courtesy of the Rochester...
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SOME FAMOUS LASTS: Of the revived Rochester Lancers
Win, lose or draw, just about everything the Rochester Lancers men accomplish Sunday against their inaugural match in the National Premier Soccer League Sunday at 4 p.m. will be a first, a first since the last time the Lancers played their final game of the 1980 North American Soccer League season.
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BEST IN LEAGUE: Tulsa’s Svantesson selected USL player of the week
Tulsa Roughnecks FC forward Ian Svantesson was voted the United Soccer League player of the week, it was announced Tuesday.
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TWO MORE COME ON BOARD: Red Bulls II ink defenders Lombard, Abidor
Red Bulls II signed defenders Andrew Lombard and David Abidor, the club announced Tuesday.
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