BigTime Soccer The Remarkable Rise Fall of the NASL

Nearly 40 years since its demise the North American Soccer League continues to linger in the memories and imaginations of soccer fans across the United States and beyond The colorful oftentimes controversial league attracted some of the games greatest players Pele Best Cruyff Muller Beckenbauer to name a few Crowds of 70000plus flocked to games as the NASL brought star power to a country where soccer had been virtually invisible just a few years earlier