New York Cosmos
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| Basic data | ||
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| Surname | New York Cosmos | |
| Seat | New York City , New York , USA | |
| founding | 1970 | |
| resolution | 1985 | |
| Colours | blue, yellow, green | |
| First soccer team | ||
| Venue | last at Giants Stadium | |
| Places | 78,000 | |
| league | NASL | |
| 1984 | 3rd place, Eastern Division | |
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New York Cosmos was a soccer franchise in the North American Soccer League (NASL) between 1971 and 1985 . Warner Communications was the owner .
The football club has become known primarily through the commitment of many international players, including world stars such as Pelé and Franz Beckenbauer . Beckenbauer moved in 1977 for the then record transfer fee of two million dollars from Bayern Munich to Cosmos. He won the US championship of the NASL (1977) together with Pelé in his first season. New York Cosmos succeeded in doing this a total of five times: 1972, 1977, 1978, 1980 and 1982. In 1980 Beckenbauer moved back to the Bundesliga, this time to Hamburger SV , before he made another brief guest appearance at New York Cosmos between May and November 1983 and started his career finished.
history
The club was founded in 1970 by the music producers and owners of Atlantic Records , the Turkish brothers Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegün . Based on the musical past of the two Ertegün brothers, the club was originally supposed to be called "New York Blues". The UK manager Clive Toye , a former sports journalist, found the name unsuitable for a soccer team and had a naming competition organized. The winning proposal was Cosmos and was officially announced in February 1971.
Cosmos made his debut in the 1971 season of the North American Soccer League and was one of the most successful clubs in the young, at the time still semi-professional league. The history of New York Cosmos is closely linked to the founding and dissolution of the North American Soccer League from 1968 to 1984 and has partly developed in parallel. The seasons from 1971 to 1975 were shaped by the Bermudian Randy Horton , who had been taken over by the dissolved ASL champions "Philadelphia Ukrainians". Thanks to Horton's accuracy, Cosmos finished second in the championship in the first season. In the following season (1972) Cosmos became NASL champions for the first time in club history.
At the same time, the league changed from an amateur to a professional league thanks to the commitment of financially strong patrons such as the Ertegün brothers, and in 1974 CBS was again able to win a media partner who broadcast the games live on television. The nationwide broadcast of the games and the resulting income ensured that Cosmos sustained economic and sporting success. It was during this period in the club's history that the world star Pelé was committed : “Soccer” and especially Cosmos enjoyed unprecedented popularity with the American audience, and games had to be relocated to larger venues several times. For example, the number of spectators for the club's games after the move to the New York Giants' stadium, with an average of 40,000 spectators, was well above the league average of 15,000 at the time.
With further commitments to South American and European players (including Franz Beckenbauer 1977-1980 and 1983) and the German soccer coach Hennes Weisweiler (seasons 1980 and 1981) Cosmos was able to establish itself in the league top from the second half of the 1970s and won four by 1982 the championship more times.
However, the interest of the television audience soon waned again. As early as 1981, ABC, as the interim owner of the broadcasting rights, only showed a single match of the championship before the league had no media partner at all from 1982. Rescue attempts such as the effort to host the Soccer World Cup in 1986 failed, so that the NASL finally sank into insignificance and was dissolved in 1984.
The league's decline also put Cosmos in financial trouble. In addition, Warner Communications cut back its involvement in the sports sector as a result of a corporate restructuring and finally sold its football stakes in 1981 to the then Cosmos player Giorgio Chinaglia . The Italian, who has been playing for the New Yorkers since 1976, only had a fraction of Warner's resources and was forced to sell many of the top players in the international squad. After the dissolution of the NASL, Cosmos moved to the American Major Indoor Soccer League in 1984 and tried to build on earlier successes in indoor soccer. Due to a lack of audience interest, they withdrew from the league in 1985. The club that was last coached by Hubert Birkenmeier was then dissolved and liquidated - only the youth football schools remained, which were managed by former club manager G. Peppe Pinton until 2003.
As the owner of the naming rights for Cosmos , Pinton also felt obliged to the successful legacy of the association and, despite lucrative offers, resisted the sale of the same for a long time. In the course of the many attempts to re-establish a US professional league, there were also several attempts to re-establish New York Cosmos (with corresponding offers from the owners of the New York Metrostars and later the New York Red Bulls ), but it wasn't until 2009 Persuade Pinton to sell the rights to a British consortium, following the advice of Pelé. The new owners around the former Tottenham Hotspur Vice-President Paul Kemsley then founded today's club New York Cosmos in 2010, this time in a second-rate remake of the North American Soccer League .
Stadion
Most recently, the club played its home games at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford ( New Jersey ). At that time the stadium had a capacity of 78,000 spectators. The sports facility is owned by the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority.
Venues from 1971 to 1984
| season | Stadion | Location | Coordinates |
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| 1971/1976 | Yankee Stadium (1923) | Bronx , New York City | 40 ° 49 '46.8 " N , 73 ° 55' 34.6" W. |
| 1972 to 1973 | Hofstra Stadium | Long Island , New York | 40 ° 42 '55.9 " N , 73 ° 35' 46.3" W. |
| 1974 to 1975 | Downing Stadium | New York City | 40 ° 47 '35.7 " N , 173 ° 55' 31.4" E |
| 1977 to 1984 | Giants Stadium | East Rutherford , New Jersey | 40 ° 48 ′ 44 " N , 74 ° 4 ′ 37" W. |
filming
From July 7, 2006, the documentary Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos was shown in the US and UK .
Known players
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Carlos Alberto
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Franz Beckenbauer
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Hubert Birkenmeier
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Vladislav Bogićević
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Giorgio Chinaglia
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Chinesinho
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Rick Davis
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Andranik Eskandarian
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Francisco Marinho
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Gil Mărdărescu
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Johan Neeskens
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Yasin Özdenak
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Pelé
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Wim Rijsbergen
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Werner Roth
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Jomo Sono
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Mordechai Spiegler
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Wladyslaw Żmuda
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François Van der Elst
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Roberto Cabañas
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Oscar
Coach from 1971 to 1984
| Surname | Time at New York Cosmos | |
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| from | to | |
 Gordon Bradley
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1971 | 1975 |
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Ken Furphy
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1976 | |
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Gordon Bradley
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1976 | 1977 |
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Eddie Firmani
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1977 | 1979 |
 Ray Klivecka
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1979 | |
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Julio Mazzei
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1980 | |
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Hennes Weisweiler Yasin Özdenak
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1980 | 1981 |
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Julio Mazzei
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1982 | 1983 |
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Eddie Firmani
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1984 | |
successes
- NASL championship: 1972, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1982
- Division wins:
- Northern Division: 1972
- Eastern Division, National Conference: 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981
- Eastern Division: 1982, 1983
Visitor average
| year | Visitor average |
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| 1971 | 4,517 |
| 1972 | 4,282 |
| 1973 | 5,782 |
| 1974 | 3,578 |
| 1975 | 10,450 |
| 1976 | 18,227 |
| 1977 | 34,142 |
| 1978 | 47,856 |
| 1979 | 46,690 |
| 1980 | 42,754 |
| 1981 | 34,835 |
| 1982 | 28,479 |
| 1983 | 27,242 |
| 1984 | 12,817 |
Stages
- 1971 & 1976 Yankee Stadium (New York)
- 1972–1973 Hofstra Stadium ( Hempstead, New York )
- 1974–1975 Downing Stadium (on Randalls Island , New York City)
- 1977–1984 Giants Stadium ( East Rutherford )
literature
- Gavin Newsham: Once in a Lifetime. The Incredible Story of the New York Cosmos. Grove / Atlantic, 2006, ISBN 0-8021-4288-5 .
Web links
- The trailer for the film
- The film in the IMDB
- Haig Latchinian : How a Wurzener came to Beckenbauer in New York - Hardly anyone knows what a dazzling sports career the Saxon entrepreneur Joachim Brand had. As Jack Brand, the current owner of the Wurzener Filzfabrik stood in the 1970s at the gate of Cosmos New York - the legendary football club to which Pelé, Franz Beckenbauer and Carlos Alberto switched. Leipziger Volkszeitung , online portal, February 20, 2019. Accessed April 3, 2019 .
Notes and individual references
- ↑ For further information, the article en: North American Soccer League (1968–84) in the English language Wikipedia is recommended.
- ↑ CBS already had television broadcasting rights in the NASL opening season in 1968, but withdrew for the following season, so that the NASL was without a media partner between 1969 and 1974.
- ↑ The 1986 World Cup was awarded to Colombia in 1974. After increasing the number of participants from 16 to 24 teams, the Colombian Football Association was no longer able to meet the requirements of FIFA and canceled the event in November 1982. As a result, u. a. the US as a substitute host. The initiative for the application came largely from the NASL and was linked to the hope that hosting the World Cup would revive the declining interest in the league.
- ↑ The film was established on Youtube in 2013