Calgary Boomers
The Calgary Boomers were a Canadian football club. In the 1980/1981 season they played as the successor to the Memphis Rogues in the North American Soccer League indoor league, the following year (1981 season) on a normal large field also in the NASL. The owner of the team was the Canadian businessman Nelson Skalbania , who also owned ice hockey, American football and other sports teams. The club, which played its games in the then 25,000-seat McMahon Stadium , disbanded at the end of 1981.
The former German soccer player and today's coach Jürgen Röber is probably the most famous former Canadian player. Röber moved from FC Bayern Munich to Calgary in the summer of 1981 . In the same year Röber left the club and joined the traditional English club Nottingham Forest , since the Canadian club stopped playing at the end of 1981. In the same year, Klaus Toppmöller , a three-time German national player and later Bundesliga coach, also played for the Boomers at Bayer Leverkusen, among others.
