Pele was the face of the Cosmos, but in many ways Chinaglia was their real star
Apr 19, 2016
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Ah, the 1970s! When all lads had long hair, sideburns and wore flared trousers. Oh and treated disco dancefloors like John Travolta did in Saturday Night Fever to the sounds of the Bee Gees. Those first two sentences are of course all factually incorrect but either way the '70s was an interesting time if you were a soccer fan in the US during that decade.
It was the era in which the short-lived North American Soccer League enjoyed its greatest degree of prominence with European and South American superstars like Pele, Franz Beckenbauer (both New York Cosmos), Johan Cruyff (Los Angeles Aztecs and Washington Diplomats), George Best (Aztecs, Fort Lauderdale and San Jose) and Bobby Moore (San Antonio) starring there in the twilight of their professional careers.
Source: http://www.newstalk.com/