Portland Pythons are a defunct

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team that played in the

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(PSA) in 1998 which changed its name to the

World Indoor Soccer League The World Indoor Soccer League (WISL) was a United States-based indoor soccer league that existed from 1998 to 2001 and consisted of nine teams. History After the demise of the Continental Indoor Soccer League, four of its teams decided to crea ...

(WISL) in 1999. The team folded at the end of the 1999 season.

History

In 1997, the

Continental Indoor Soccer League The Continental Indoor Soccer League (CISL) was a professional indoor soccer league that played from 1993 to 1997. History In the summer of 1989 Dr Jerry Buss, the owner of the Los Angeles Lakers and California Sports, told his executive Vice Pre ...

(CISL) folded after five seasons. The CISL had been founded as a summer indoor soccer league in 1993. Although it had experienced some success in its early years, it barely made it through the 1997 season before folding. The

Portland Pride The Portland Pride are a defunct indoor soccer team that played in the Continental Indoor Soccer League (CISL) from 1993 to 1997. History In 1993, a new league, the Continental Indoor Soccer League (CISL) began its first season. Traditionally, ...

was a charter member of the CISL and with the collapse of the league, the team’s ownership, Portland Professional Soccer, LLC, joined with several other CISL teams to form the

(PSA). With the new league came a new name as the Pride adopted the name Portland Pythons. The Pythons performed poorly in the PSA’s first season. The team went 1–6 and failed to make the playoffs. At the end of the season, the PSA expanded into two new cities, but after a merger with the English Indoor Football League failed to materialize, the PSA renamed itself the

(WISL). The Pythons competed in the WISL in 1999, but folded at the end of the season after rumours of a move to

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fell through.

Arena

While the Pride had played in Memorial Coliseum, the Pythons held their home games in the

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Coach

* Ralph Black 1998–1999

Year-by-year

Honors

Goalkeeper of the Year * 1999

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First Team All PSA * 1998

Jeff Betts Jeff Betts (born March 8, 1970 in Charles City, Iowa) is an American former soccer forward and coach who spent most of his career playing indoor soccer. He was a three time All Star and the 2000 World Indoor Soccer League Coach of the Year. C ...

, Billy Crook First Team All WISL * 1999

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Defunct soccer clubs in Oregon World Indoor Soccer League teams Defunct indoor soccer clubs in the United States Premier Soccer Alliance teams 1998 establishments in Oregon Soccer clubs in Oregon 1999 disestablishments in Oregon Association football clubs established in 1998 Association football clubs disestablished in 1999