NASL - Soccer Bowl pinback buttons

 August 28, 1977 Civic Stadium, Portland, Ore

New York Cosmos defeat the Seattle Sounders 2-1

attendance 35, 548

 August 27, 1978 Meadowlands, East rutherford, New Jersey

New York Cosmos defeat Tampa Bay Rowdies 3-1

attendance 74,091

 September 8, 1979 Meadowlands, East Rutherford, New Jersey

Vancouver Whitecaps defeat Tampa Bay Rowdies 2-1

attendance 50, 699

September 18, 1982 San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium, San Diego, Ca

New York Cosmos defeat Seattle Sounders 1-0

attendance 22,634

October 1, 1983 BP Place Stadium, Vancouver

Tulsa Roughnecks defeat Toronto Blizzard 2-0

attendance 53,326

The Soccer Bowl was the NASL Championship game, which adopted the term Soccer Bowl in 1975. The winner received the NASL Trophy, which became known as the Soccer Bowl Trophy

Superstar Showdown

pinback button commemorating the last meeting of 2 soccer superstars Pele (New York Cosmos) and Eusebio (Las Vegas Quicksilvers)

Eusebio, Portugal is considered one of the great footballers of all time. He scored 733 goals in 745 matches, from 1957- 1979. Eusebio played for the Portuguese National team, Benfica, Boston Minutemen (NASL), Las Vegas Quicksilvers (NASL), New Jersey Americans (ASL) and in Mexico

Pele, played for the Brazil National Team, Santos (Brazil) 1956-1974 and the New York Cosmos 1975-1977. All-time leading goal scorer for Brazil with 77 goals in 92 games

Pinback buttons

 Edmonton Drillers 1979-1982 NASL

Columbus Magic 1979-1980 ASL

 Caribous of Colorado 1978 NASL

 Houston Hurricanes 1978-1980 NASL

Las Vegas Americans 1984-1985 MISL

Dallas Tornados 1967 USA 1968-1981NASL

Wichita Wings 1979-1992 MISL, 1992-2001 NPSL

New York Cosmos 1971-1984 NASL

In 1977, the New York Cosmos developed a youth division, Soccer Camps of America. The camps included the Cosmos Soccer Camps, Pele Soccer Camps, Franz Beckenbaur Soccer Camps, Giorgio Chinalia Soccer Academy, Werner Roth Soccer Afari, Carlos Alberto Soccer Camps, with the participation of internationally known soccer superstars

NASL - North American Soccer League

MISL - Major Indoor Soccer League

NPSL - National Professional Soccer League

ASL - American Soccer League

USA - United Soccer Association

New York Cosmos - Pele : 2015

May 23, 2015 the Cosmos offered a Pele bobble-head during a game against the San Antonio Scorpions at Shuart Stadium...  I have seen a few of these on ebay for under $50.00...

Cosmos advertisement 1977

Aug-Sept 1977

Half-page advertisement in DC Comics promoting Pele and Giorgio Chinaglia at the Meadowlands...

2013 Topps Archives - Pele

2013 Topps Archives Baseball (1975 throwback)

Pele autographed card

Odds: 1:41,000 packs

Came across information about this card while researching the new Topps MLS cards. 

In one chat room there was a question of how come Pele gets put in a baseball set, but not the soccer set. I agree I would love to see the older NASL players autographs inserted into the MLS set.

However Topps' primary sets are baseball, and the 2013 Archive set not only includes Pele, but include heavy metal rock stars like Sebastian Bach, tommy Lee, Lita Ford and Dee Snider; actors Jack Palance, Ava Gardner as well as the usual baseball players. The set utilizes all throwback designs another popular trend from Topps

Pele - Pepsi patch

Promotional patch from Pepsi featuring Pele's signature (from around 1975) measures around 3.75 x 4.5 inches. have not been able to find out any information on this item, other than Pele did advertising for Pepsi...

Found this ad on several web searches...

Pele - bicycle kick

Pele's iconic bicycle kick in Morumbi Stadium, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

The 2006 documentary and companion book "Once in a Lifetime" about the Cosmos soccer club featured the Pele bicycle kick under the heading "Goals, Greed, Girls". Telling the story of the NY Cosmos, founded in 1971 and dissolved in 1985, and how they brought soccer to the USA through the heroics of it's international stars, Pele, Giorgio Chingalia, Franz Beckenbauer, Carlos Alberto.  although his silhouette is on the poster, Pele declined to be interviewed for the documentary.

Pearl Jam 20th Anniversary poster - for the Pearl Jam Twenty Tour (PJ20). Pearl Jam played in Morumbi Stadium, Sao Paulo, Brazil in November 2011.  Ames Bros. utilized the Pele kick as the focus of the pearl Jam poster. The poster also was available in a gold print variation.

Pele reproduced his famous kick in the movie Escape to Victory (Victory in North America), the story of an Allied prisoner of war soccer team playing against an elite German team in a German propaganda stunt. The Allied team would consist of Pele, Bobby Moore, Michael Caine, Sylvester Stallone, Osvaldo Ardiles, Kazimierz Deyna, Paul Van Himst, Mike Summerbee, John Wark, Hallvar Thoresen, along with several members of the Ipswich Town F.C.

Werner Roth portrayed the German team Captain and Max von Sydow the prison commandant. The movie was based on the 1962 Hungarian movie "Two Half Times in Hell" directed by Zoltan Fabri

2010 World Cup - Time magazine

2010.06.14 - cover illustration by Douglas Fraser
The magazine featured articles on the World Cup Preview, America's Soccer Bloom, David Beckham on US Soccer success, and the History of the Game...

Article - Stepping Up - Four players to keep an eye on - Steven Pienaar, South Africa; David Villa, Spain; Gianluigi Buffon, Italy and Tim howard, US...

Article - One on One with David Beckham
What is the state of the American Game - It's the best it's been for a while.
US Plays England in the first group match - If we were up against the US 10 years ago people would say it's going to be easy. Now times have changed, there is no easy game. US has got talent...Expectations on our team is huge...

Article - Yes Soccer is Americas Game by Bill Soporito
Please stop lecturing us. We know it's called football everywhere else and it's the global game, the beautiful game. Americans call it soccer because there's a perfectly great sport here already called football, one that is not inclined to surrender its moniker anytie soon. So don't get your football knickers in a twist about it.

Soccer it is.

Back cover - Louis Vuitton advertisement featuring Pele, Zinedine Zidane and Diego Maradonna...wouldn't you love to have been at this photo shoot!

2007 - NJ Ironmen

2007.12.01 Prudential Center, Newark, NJ

Inaugural game of the New Jersey Ironmen v Detroit Ignition...

The local draw to the game was the addition of Tony Meola, in goal for the Ironmen. Daniel Antoniuk connect for a hat-trick in the inaugural game victory for the Ironmen over the Ignition 8-6.

Pele was named honorary captain for the opening game...the game program had this, written by John Archibald..barely 30 years after playing that last game at the Meadowlands, Pele has returned to the Garden State. The man known as the greatest soccer legend of all-time will soon carry us into the next generation of New Jersey sports, just as he was carried around Giants Stadium that rainy day in 1977. while the rooftop of Prudential Center may prevent the sky from dropping tears of joy upon our heads, there will undoubtedly be a need for tissues when the legend of Pele is in our presence. the roof may block the night sky, but that's alright. The brightest star in the sky will be right in front of our eyes.

The field was packed with children lined up around the center circle. Pele walked onto the field into the center of the circle for the first kick and presentations. then the children, who never saw Pele play converged on the man. He touched them on the head, shook their hands and smiled. Drawn like a magnet the children would not leave the field. Announcement were made and the mass of children moved with Pele like a game of magnet ball.

When the field finally cleared, and Pele had departed, we waited for the game to start. The players did not take the field. We waited, an announcement was made that the players will soon take the field and start the game. We later learned that the players were still in the locker room getting autographs and shaking hands with Pele, meeting their hero just as the children on the field had done...

Pele

Pele

1980 Olympic Soccer FDC

Homer Screws

Tacoma Stars (MISL) 1987-1989, Atlanta Attack (AISA) 1990, Portland Timber (APSL)

Head Coach, Women's Soccer Coe College - his mission to develop a winning, positive culture of soccer of which current, past and future players can be proud..

Hernan "Chico" Borja

NY Cosmos (NASL) 1981-1982,1984, Team America (NASL) 1983, Las Vegas Americans (MISL) 1984-1985, Wichita Wings (MISL) 1985-1987, 1988-1992, Los Angeles Lazer (MISL) 1987-1988

US National Team 1982-1988

1984 Olympics

1992 US Futsal Team - World Champions

Hector Marinaro

Cleveland Force (MISL) 1983-1984, Minnesota Strikers (MISL) 1986-1988, Toronto Blizzard (NASL) 1987-1988, (NSL) 1993, Los Angeles Lazer (MISL) 1988-1989, Cleveland Crunch (MISL-NPSL) 1989-2002, Cleveland Force (MISL II) 2002-2004

Canadian National Team 1986-1995

Pele

John Smith (NE Patriots-NFL)

Alan Mayer

SD Sockers (NASL) 1978-1979, Pittsburgh Spirit (MISL) 1979-1980, California Surf (NASL) 1980-1981, NJ Rockets (MISL) 1980-1982, SD Sockers (MISL) 1982-1983, Las Vegas Americans (MISL) 1984-1985, KC Comets (MISL) 1985-1992

US National Team 1976-1977

Hubert Birkenmeier

Freiberger FC (Bundesliga) 1970-72, 1977-1979, Tennis Borussia Berlin (Bundesliga) 1972-1977, NY Cosmos (NASL) 1979-1985, NY Cosmos (NASL-MISL) 1981-1985, Chicago Sting (MISL) 1985-1986, NY Express (MISL) 1986-1987, LA Lazer (MISL) 1987

Hand painted first day cover for the 1980 Olympics

1979 the US Postal Service issued a series of stamps in commemoration of the upcoming 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. due to the inability of the USPS and the ICO to come to a licensing agreement none of the US stamps were allowed to show the Olympic rings. Therefore the USPS replaced the rings with 5 stars in each design.

In response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the United States and 64 other countries boycotted the games. In soccer Czechoslovakia defeated the German Democratic Republic 1:0 for the gold medal. Cuba replaced the United States in the tournament. The 1980 US Olympic soccer team included Ricky Davis, Perry Van Der Beck, Don Ebert and Ty Keough, coached by Walter Chyzowych...