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Los Angeles Skyhawks
The Los Angeles Skyhawks was a professional soccer club based in Los Angeles, California, that was a member of the American Soccer League. Founded as part of the American Soccer League's expansion to the west coast in 1976, they were the first professional sports team to be based in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles. The ASL, under commissioner Bob Cousy, had expanded in an attempt to compete with the North American Soccer League. Coming into the league with the Skyhawks were the Oakland (later Golden Bay) Buccaneers, Tacoma Tides, Sacramento Spirits, and the Utah Pioneers (later Golden Spikers). These teams formed the Western Division, while the Eastern Division had the established teams New York Apollo, Connecticut Yankees, Rhode Island Oceaneers, Chicago Cats, New Jersey Americans, and Cleveland Cobras. The Skyhawks played their games at Birmingham High School Stadium for the 1976 and 1977 seasons. At the time, Birmingham was the largest stadium in the valley with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Ralbovsky
Steve Ralbovsky is a Yugoslav-American former soccer player. He was the 1975 Hermann Trophy winner as the outstanding collegiate soccer player of the year. He then had an extensive professional career including time in the North American Soccer League and the American Soccer League II and III. High school and college Born in Yugoslavia, Ralbovsky moved to the United States in 1970. He played soccer at DeWitt Clinton High School in New York City. His excellent play led to his receiving the Public School Athletic League Iron Horse Pegasus Award in 1971–1972 for soccer. After graduating from high school, he attended Brown University, where he starred on the school's men's soccer team. He played both defender and defensive midfielder. During his four seasons with the Bears (1972–1975), Brown dominated the Ivy League. Harvard had been the team to beat in years past, but beginning in 1972, Brown reeled off five straight Ivy League championships. In 1973 and 1975, the team m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Cacciatore
Steve Cacciatore is a retired American soccer forward who played professionally in the American Soccer League and the North American Soccer League. Cacciatore grew up on "The Hill" (an Italian neighborhood) in St. Louis, Missouri and graduated from St. Louis University High School. He then attended Southern Illinois University Edwardsville where he played on the men's soccer team from 1972 to 1975. He, along with the rest of the 1972 team, was inducted into the SIUE Athletic Hall of Fame in 2005. On January 14, 1976, the Rochester Lancers selected Cacciatore in the third round of the North American Soccer League draft. The Los Angeles Skyhawks of the American Soccer League drafted him a week later. Cacciatore signed with the Skyhawks for the 1976 season. In 1977, he played one game for the St. Louis Stars in the North American Soccer League. The St. Louis Soccer Hall of Fame inducted Cacciatore in 2005. His brothers, Chris & Jeff Jeff is a masculine name, often a short ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leif Werneid
Leif Dag Werneid (born 1943) was a Norwegian professional footballer. He played as a forward for the Los Angeles Wolves of the North American Soccer League, scoring 4 goals in 21 appearances in the 1968 season. He also played for Lisleby FK Lisleby Fotballklubb is a multi-sports club from Fredrikstad, Norway. The team plays football and athletics at Lisleby Stadion. The club was founded as an association football club on 8 May 1920. Two years later, the club expanded with athletic .... References 1943 births Living people Norwegian men's footballers Los Angeles Wolves players North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players Norwegian emigrants to the United States Lisleby FK players Men's association football forwards Norwegian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Norwegian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States {{Norway-footy-forward-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benny Binshtock
Benny or Bennie is a given name or a shortened version of the given name Benjamin or, less commonly, Benedict, Bennett, Benito, Benson, Bernice, Ebenezer or Bernard. People Bennie Given name *Bennie M. Bunn (1907–1943), American Marine officer, Navy Cross recipient *Bennie Cunningham (born 1954), American retired National Football League player * Bennie Daniels (born 1932), American former Major League Baseball pitcher * Bennie L. Davis (1928–2012), United States Air Force general and commander-in-chief of Strategic Air Command * Bennie Ellender (1925–2011), American college football player and head coach * Bennie Goods (born 1968), American retired Canadian Football League player * Bennie Green (1923–1977), American jazz trombonist and bandleader * Bennie Logan (born 1989), American National Football League player * Bennie Maupin (born 1940), American jazz musician * Bennie Muller (born 1948), Dutch former footballer * Bennie Purcell (born 1929), American college baske ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Whelan
Anthony M. Whelan (; born 20 November 1952) is an English former professional footballer who works as assistant academy director of Manchester United. He is responsible for the Under-9 to Under-16 player development programme. Playing career Early career Whelan was born in Salford, Lancashire, and grew up as a Manchester City fan in Wythenshawe, South Manchester. He attended St Anthonys Sec Modern in Blackley, North Manchester for a short while then after the family moved to Partington, Whelan attended St Paul's Secondary Modern School in Urmston, where he captained his school team, as well as the local schoolboy representative team, Stretford Boys. Whilst playing for Stretford Boys, Whelan was spotted by Manchester United scout Joe Armstrong and invited to sign associated schoolboy forms in 1967. He signed apprentice professional forms upon leaving school in July 1968 and advanced through the various junior teams featuring in the FA Youth Cup team that reached the semi-finals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ane Mihailovich
Ane Mihailovich is a Yugoslavian-American former soccer player. He spent at least four seasons in the American Soccer League, four in the North American Soccer League and one in the Major Indoor Soccer League. He also earned five caps with the United States men's national soccer team in 1977. Club career Mihailovich spent the 1973 and 1974 seasons with the Cleveland Stars in the American Soccer League (ASL). In 1976, Mihailovich signed with the expansion Los Angeles Skyhawks. The Skyhawks went to the ASL title game where the game was tied 1-1 until the Skyhawks' Steve Ralbovsky was tripped in the penalty area. Mihailovich converted the penalty, beating New York Apollo goalkeeper Gerard Joseph in the lower left-hand corner, and the Skyhawks won the game, 2-1. In 1977, Mihailovich jumped the first division Los Angeles Aztecs of the North American Soccer League (NASL). The Aztecs traded him to the Washington Diplomats six games into the 1978 season. The move to the Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Hinch
James Hinch (born 8 November 1947) is an English retired Association football forward who spent most of his career in the lower English divisions. He also played two seasons in the American Soccer League, where he was the 1976 ASL leading scorer MVP, and two in the North American Soccer League. Hinch began his professional career in 1969 with Tranmere Rovers in the Football League Third Division. On 10 February 1971, Tranmere transferred Hinch to fellow third division club Plymouth Argyle. In 1973, he then moved to Hereford United. In 1974, Hinch moved up to York City which had just won promotion to the Football League Second Division the previous season. He went on loan to fourth division Southport during March and April in the 1974–1975 season. In 1976 and again in 1977, Hinch went on loan to the Los Angeles Skyhawks of the American Soccer League. The Skyhawks were established in 1976, but ran to the league championship as Hinch led the league in scoring with thirteen goals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Cohen (soccer) (1807–1848), Chief Reform Rabbi of Lemberg (now Lviv)
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Abraham Cohen may refer to: * Abraham Cohen de Herrera (c. 1570–c. 1635), religious philosopher and Kabbalist (Amsterdam) * Abraham Cohen Pimentel (died 1697), Orthodox rabbi (Amsterdam) * Abraham Cohen of Zante (1670–1729), physician, poet, rabbi (Venetian Republic) * Abraham Cohen Labatt (1802–1899), American pioneer of Reform Judaism * Abraham Burton Cohen (1882–1956), American civil engineer * Abraham Cohen (editor) (1887–1957), rabbinical editor of the Soncino Books of the Bible See also * Abe Cohen (1933–2001), American football player * Abraham Cohn (1832–1897), American Civil War soldier and Medal of Honor recipient * Abraham Kohn Abraham Kohn (June 13, 1806 in Zalužany, Bohemia – September 7, 1848 at Lemberg, Galicia) was the liberal Chief Rabbi of Lemberg, and was poisoned to death. In 1828, he entered the University of Prague, where he applied himself to philos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Rolland
Jimmy Rolland was a Scottish football forward who spent four seasons in the American Soccer League. He was the 1978 league leading scorer and MVP. In 1974, he signed for Northwich Victoria from Buxton. In his first season for Northwich, he scored 45 goals in 56 games; only two other Northwich players have better records in the club's history. However the lure of the growing football scene in the USA saw him sign for the Los Angeles Skyhawks in the American Soccer League. Despite being on the LA Skyhawks' books, he returned to Northwich in 1976, scoring a vital goal in the club's best modern-time FA Cup run. In the same season, his team, LA Skyhawks won the league championship and Rolland was the team and league's second leading scorer. In 1978, he led the league with 17 goals in 24 games, leading to his selection as league MVP. In 1980 he was contracted to play with ASL expansion team the Phoenix Fire, but the team folded in pre-season. In 1980, he played for the California ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mickey Cave
Michael John Cave (28 January 1949 – 6 November 1984) was an English association football, footballer who played as a midfielder. Career Born in Weymouth, Dorset, Cave was studying engineering when he started his career in non-League football with hometown club Weymouth F.C., Weymouth in 1966. He joined Torquay United F.C., Torquay United in July 1968, soon settling into the Plainmoor side. Although not a regular goalscorer (17 goals in 114 league games), when he did score they tended to be memorable. In July 1971 a fee of £15,000 took him to AFC Bournemouth. His first season at Dean Court was a struggle, and in March 1972 he joined Plymouth Argyle F.C., Plymouth Argyle on loan (sports), loan. However, he returned to Bournemouth and eventually played 99 league games, scoring 17 goals, before a £18,000 transfer to York City F.C., York City in August 1974. His first season was York's first ever in the Football League Second Division, Second Division and they confounded expectati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Fogarty
Ken Fogarty (born in Manchester, England) is a (naturalised) American soccer coach. Fogarty was Head Coach and Technical Director of the Cayman Islands national team from 1993 to 1994 and from 1996 to 1998. Professional career Fogarty began his professional career with Stockport County at the age of seventeen. He then moved to the United States to play for the Los Angeles Skyhawks of the second American Soccer League (ASL) in 1976, the year they won the ASL Championship. He returned to England to play for Stockport County until returning to the US in 1979 to play for the Fort Lauderdale Strikers of the North American Soccer League (NASL). He remained with the Strikers through the end of the 1983 season. When the Strikers moved north to Minnesota, Fogarty went with the team for the final NASL season in 1984. The NASL folded at the end of that season and the Strikers then jumped to the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL). Fogarty continued to play with the Strikers until he joi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
