Coincidentally, the colors were the same as those of the previous New York NASL team, the New York Generals, which had folded after the 1968 season.

The NASL folded about six months later.

The Minnesota Strikers ' history begins on November 30, 1983, when the Fort Lauderdale Strikers announced they were relocating to Minnesota ( three seasons after the Minnesota Kicks folded ) for the 1984 NASL season.

When the NASL folded, the San Diego Sockers moved to the Major Indoor Soccer League and won eight championships: 1983, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, and 1992.

After finishing third in their division, Wolves were one of several NASL franchises that folded after just one season.

Following the 1968 NASL season, the league was in trouble with ten franchises having folded.

Following the 1968 NASL season, the league was in trouble with ten franchises having folded.

Following the 1968 NASL season, the league was in trouble with ten franchises having folded.

Following the 1968 NASL season, the league was in trouble with ten franchises having folded.

While Zungul went on to become the NASL League MVP in 1984, the Arrows collapsed and folded at the end of the season.

It would be the Generals who would represent New York in the NASL in 1968, as the USA's New York Skyliners folded.

The Fury returned NASL soccer to Philadelphia for the first time since the Philadelphia Atoms folded in 1976.

Following the 1968 NASL season, the league was in trouble with ten franchises having folded.

The NASL folded 1984, and Tatu moved to the Dallas Sidekicks of Major Indoor Soccer League.

The team disbanded after the 1979 season, but the Detroit Auto Kings would play the 1980 season in the North American Softball League ( NASL ), before ceasing play and ending professional softball played in East Detroit.

The legendary Pelé was credited for starting major interest in the league after coming out of semi-retirement to sign with the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League ( NASL ).

However, in January 2004, General Manager Johnny Moore, whose roots with the club dated back to his days as a player for the NASL Earthquakes, resigned after AEG and MLS considered allowing the team to be rebranded as San Jose America ( with ownership to transfer to the owners of Mexico's Club América ).

The precipitous decline of the Cosmos after the 1983 season became for many fans and the media proof positive of the grave condition of the whole NASL.

Following the collapse of the NASL, the team competed in the Major Indoor Soccer League during the 1984 – 85 season, with Klivecka briefly returning as coach, but withdrew after 33 games due to low attendances.

In 1979 Grobbelaar was signed up by the Vancouver Whitecaps of the NASL after he had attended their scouting camp in South Africa.

He retired a few years later after spells at Barnsley on loan, Manchester City, Preston North End, American side Tulsa Roughnecks in the NASL and Maltese side Naxxar LionsHe also had a spell as player manager at Barrow A. F. C.

But after winning the prestigious trophy it was back to NASL action and another defeat in a 3 – 0 reverse at the Seattle Sounders.

Head Coach Willy Roy, who had led the Sting to two NASL titles, was replaced by his assistant Eric Geyer in late December, and Karl-Heinz Granitza, the clubs all-time leading goalscorer, who at the beginning of the season had seen his annual salary cut by $ 100, 000 to $ 65, 000, was suspended indefinitely on March 21 after an argument with owner Lee Stern.

Shortly after leaving the Victoria Ground, he came out of retirement to join NASL team Baltimore Bays in the United States for a season.

His entry into international soccer occurred in 1968, when Atlanta Chiefs Founder and Owner, Dick Cecil, and former West Ham United player Phil Woosnam ( who was manager of the Atlanta Chiefs franchise in the then-recently formed North American Soccer League ( NASL ) recruited Motaung after team trials in Zambia.

Motaung named his club " Kaizer Chiefs " after himself and his former NASL team.

He also returned to form his own professional soccer team which he named Jomo Cosmos after himself and his former NASL team, the New York Cosmos.

The song was also played after Vancouver Whitecaps NASL home games at Empire Stadium in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and after Vancouver 86ers CSL home games in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

He retired after 1979, and coached the New York United and Carolina Lightnin ' teams in the ASL, before returning to the Rowdies to coach their final NASL season in 1984.

The team again played at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium for three seasons and also at Omni Coliseum for two NASL Indoor seasons until folding after the 1981 season.

The NASL collapsed after the 1984 season.

Though they performed well on the field in their first year, they were ultimately unable to overcome the financial difficulties that had plagued them since New England, and were disbanded by the NASL after the 1981 – 1982 season.

The idea of bringing Pelé to America had actually been around for a while as NASL commissioner Phil Woosnam and eventual Cosmos GM Clive Toye discussed it as far back as 1970 and even made an approach to the player in spring 1971, one month after the Cosmos had been formed.

The most popular professional soccer team to start in the U. S. was known as the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League ( NASL ), with teams in the United States and Canada that operated from 1968 to 1984.

The Minnesota Strikers played the 1984 NASL season at the dome.

North American Soccer League ( NASL ) was a professional soccer league with teams in the United States and Canada that operated from 1968 to 1984.

The league lasted until the 1984 NASL season.

However, four NASL teams ( Chicago Sting, Minnesota Strikers, New York Cosmos, and San Diego Sockers ) joined the Major Indoor Soccer League for its 1984 – 85 season.

* Gerry Gray ,-Professional Soccer Player NASL, Toronto Blizzard, 1984 Olympics and Coach Tacoma F. C ..

After the folding of the North American Soccer League ( NASL ) in 1984, the MISL was the Division I soccer league for the United States.

Founded in 1971, the team competed in the North American Soccer League ( NASL ) until 1984 and was the strongest franchise in that league, both competitively and financially – based largely around its backing by Warner Communications President Steve Ross, which enabled it to sign internationally famous stars such as the Brazilian forward Pelé, Italian striker Giorgio Chinaglia and the West German sweeper Franz Beckenbauer.

The club won its last title in 1982, and by the last season of the NASL, 1984, had missed the play-offs for the first time since 1975.

The NASL collapsed abruptly in late 1984, and was not replaced by a new professional soccer league until Major League Soccer's first season in 1996.

*** The Minnesota Strikers played in the NASL and MISL from 1984 to 1988 and were a continuation of the original Fort Lauderdale Strikers

That club survived the end of the NASL by joining the Major Indoor Soccer League in 1984, but did eventually fold in 1988.

With a building fan base and budding talent pool, the San Diego Sockers won the North American Soccer League ( NASL ) Championships of 1982 and again in 1984.

* NASL outdoor 1974 – 1984

* NASL indoor 1980 – 1982, 1983 – 1984

In 1984, he was the 1984 NASL MVP.

However, when the Earthquakes returned to the NASL for the 1983 outdoor season, Žungul went with them which created a conflict with Hajduk Split and the Yugoslavian Football Federations .< sup ></ sup > The Earthquakes refused to keep Zungul from playing outdoors and he went on to become a first team NASL All Star in both 1983 and 1984.

In 1984 he capped his outdoor career by being named the NASL MVP.

When the NASL itself collapsed at the end of the 1984 season, Zungul moved to the San Diego Sockers ( MISL ).

The Tulsa Roughnecks ( 1978 – 1984 ) were a North American Soccer League ( NASL ) team from Tulsa, Oklahoma.