Tag: Willie Evans
51 YEARS AGO TODAY: The Lancers won the NASL title
The Rochester Lancers’ 3-0 win over the Washington Darts in the first leg of the North American Soccer League championship series in Rochester came at great cost as Carlos Metidieri was forced out of the first leg with a slight dislocation of his right knee early in the second half when he was tackled by Willie Evans. Metidieri, who was seen hobbling around on crutches, was listed as questionable for the second leg in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 13.
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IT WAS 50 YEARS AGO TODAY: When the Lancers won the 1970 NASL title
Yes, it was 50 years ago, Sept. 13 1970, that the Lancers won the North American Soccer League...
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A BUS TRIP OF A LIFETIME: When Everald Cummings saw stars on the way to Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral
When he journeyed to the United States from his native Trinidad & Tobago in early 1968, 19-year-old Everald Cummings admitted he didn’t know much about the black culture and its ramifications.
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CULTURE SHOCK: Future Cosmos player, Trinidad national coach experienced racism firsthand with Chiefs in 1968
Racism can come in many shapes and sizes. It could be overt, it could be covert. It could be systemic.
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