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The club captured lightning in the bottle: the right place; the right front office; the right head coach; and the right mixture of players. In 1976 the sky was the limit for US soccer and an expansion club from the San Fernando Valley playing in the minor leagues was the epitome of that marvelous future waiting right around the corner.
by Dan Creel
Read MorePhysical changes are just the tip of the iceberg for a female athlete during pregnancy. I watch my friends leave our soccer team, taking months and years to come back, if they ever do put their cleats back on again. In many circumstances it’s not just being away from a game she loves, but the people she loves too.
by Danielle Gawronski
Read MoreThere is one more club on that list of champions. And perhaps the only one we should really consider a major national soccer title. For that one, we’ll need to go back to the 1931-32 season during the waning days of the so-called Golden Age of US Soccer - and the club’s name was Shamrock S.C.
by Dan Creel
Read MoreASL at 100 is a joint history project between Soccer Almanac and Protagonist Soccer. Dan Creel (a contributor on both platforms) will look back over the history of the American Soccer League, month by month, as the centennial of the league is celebrated in 2021. This article focuses on December, 1921.
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