Once in a Lifetime The Incredible Story of the New York Cosmos

by Newsham, Gavin

• ISBN13: 9780802142887
• ISBN10: 0802142885
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-14
• Publisher: Grove Press

Summary

"Once in a Lifetime is much more than the story of a soccer team. It is a vivid evocation of the Cosmos at the height of their power in 1977, and the razzmatazz and conspicuous consumption that surrounded them. It is a story that includes millionaires, rock stars, groupies, alcoholic excess, and knockdown fistfights. It also features some of the greatest stars who ever played the game of soccer."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Gavin Newsham is the associate editor of the Golf Punk magazine.

Table of Contents

Prologue : Brazil, June 1950	p. 1
Reason to believe	p. 5
New York City serenade	p. 15
This hard land	p. 29
The promised land	p. 49
Lost in the flood	p. 63
Meeting across the river	p. 71
Glory days	p. 95
Streets of fire	p. 121
Spirit in the night	p. 139
Blinded by the light	p. 165
The long good-bye	p. 183
All or nothin' at all	p. 199
Dancing in the dark	p. 213
No surrender	p. 225
Wreck on the highway	p. 243
Epilogue : only in America	p. 255
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