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#282632 - 07/20/12 08:36 AM
Welcome to NASL Cosmos
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Normal rules of engagement apply.
I can't figure out how to put the forum alphabetically in the list and not sure I have the power to move topic to this thread so be patient with me!
Enjoy
Edited by Mikey (07/20/12 08:43 AM)
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#282633 - 07/20/12 08:42 AM
Re: Welcome to NASL Cosmos
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Registered: 06/01/07
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Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
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Welcome Cosmos. All the best to you guys!
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#282636 - 07/20/12 09:20 AM
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Registered: 01/30/09
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Loc: Pittsburgh, Pa
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The Cosmos will never compare to those of Georgio Chinaglia, Pele, Franz Beckenbaur and the rest, that I used to watch on tv in the 70's in the old league. But I wish these guys well.
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#282655 - 07/20/12 09:33 PM
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Registered: 06/14/12
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Loc: Long Island
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The Cosmos are mentioned in an article in the Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444873204577539320101057882.htmlHere's a quote: Though they started at Yankee Stadium in 1971, they spent the next four seasons on the fringe of the scene. There were two seasons at Hofstra and then two more at Downing Stadium, a place The Wall Street Journal described in 1975 as a "dilapidated arena, dating from the Works Progress Administration of Franklin Roosevelt, with a bumpy, patchy field and lighting so uneven as to leave the four corners of the playing area in darkness."
It took Pelé to change everything.
"Before he came, we had played there with crowds of 3,000, 4,000 or 6,000 people," said Messing. "The field was like dirt and rocks and they spray-painted it green." Success is often a numbers game. I guess that if the Cosmos play at Hofstra (again) they'll need more than 5K of 6K showing up to their matches. 10K+ would be nice and probably assure a spot in a soccer specific stadium --- perhaps one that may be built in Queens. If they build it, will we come? I'll be there. I just hope the beer is good.
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#282722 - 07/23/12 05:14 PM
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Hey Mike, Thanks for being on top of this  . The correct area is in the Control Panel where there is a column for you to specify the order .... 1,2,3....etc... Just in recovery mode from the Annual Schawn's USA Cup. Welcome Cosmos !!!
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#282725 - 07/24/12 06:06 AM
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On Thursday, the Court of Arbitration for Sport lifted the Qatari's life ban from soccer imposed by FIFA for his role in a vote-buying scheme in the Caribbean during his 2011 bid for the FIFA presidency.
On Friday, details of an audit of his activities as Asian Football Confederation (AFC) president were shown to AP. The audit detailed how he spent $700,000 from AFC bank accounts to conduct family business -- $10,000 on a Bulgari watch for himself and nearly $5,000 for his daughter's cosmetic dentistry, among others -- how he paid soccer officials around the world -- $250,000 to Concacaf's Jack Warner -- and how he negotiated contracts on his own.
The audit found that an AFC contract with World Sports Group and its subsidiary World Sports Football were no-bid contracts and "considerably undervalued." A $14 million payment from companies with stakes in World Sports Group was made to the AFC for the ''personal use of its president,'' the report said.
World Sport Group's CEO and founder is Seamus O'Brien, chairman of the New York Cosmos, who recently was awarded an NASL franchise.
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#282730 - 07/24/12 10:14 AM
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This one smells!
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#282735 - 07/24/12 05:39 PM
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So WSG is connected to Bin Hammam bribery / kickback scandal? I think by the time we are done watching the FIFA inside story movie we will find out pretty much everybody is involved in one way or another... Don't let the Cosmos disappoint you too much, just yet. Their was a game to play, the refs were not making any calls and the game almost went the full 90 before the cards started coming out. In games like those you can't let yourself become a victim of the ref's poor control. You step and and take a few players down just like everybody else is doing in your game. Once the ref regains control you go back to playing by the rules. One or two players always become the goats and have to take the red.
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