NASL: Pele's Debut With Cosmos 6/15/1975
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- Thirty-five years ago this month, the great Pele made his debut with the NASL's New York Cosmos in this exhibition against the Dallas Tornado at Downing Stadium on Randalls Island in New York. The Black Pearl assisted on one goal and scored the equalizer in a 2-2 draw with the Tornado. The entire game broadcast is available at www.davebrett.com.
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I played before Pele and the Cosmos came out that day with the NY all stars. After our game i was sitting watching Pele the entire game and remember that goal and have told the story to many people. Watching it 40 yrs later brought back so many memories.
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Do you think Pele was so good like they say today?
He was certainly great and more important was that he had great players surrounding him. Its a corporate world now with poster boys making billions selling junk products to kids....and women as well....all hype marketing@@user-dq3ho8lq2x
Half a mile from my apartment. Basically a 20 minute walk from East Harlem to witness greatness.
I saw a game at Downing Stadium that year with Pele scoring the tying goal with seconds left. But I also remember they didn't settle for a tie, there was a shootout and Pele scored the final goal for the Cosmos. The next year I saw the Cosmos at Yankee Stadium and the next year at Giants Stadium. By the third year he had slowed down but was a magnificent passer and they won their first championship that year. Pele was a joy to watch, there was no one else like him.
No tie in football.lol
RIP 🙏 Pele.
Pelé has now been placed in hospice care. Rest in peace Pelé. He was before my time but he has always intrigued me.
I saw him play for the cosmos. Amazing.
Some people do not have a clue. Pele was the genius, the originator of modern football along with some of his great Brazilian counterparts, but he shone by far the brightest. He won every world cup tournament he was reasonably healthy in - before red cards they tried to kill him every time he touched the ball... you think Neymar could survive that scrutiny? never. His stats are off the charts. Watch this game... he is an old man and he dominates making assists and setting up chances and finishing that header Maradona could not even have pulled off in his prime. Yes its all relative to the time period, but no body ever dominated a team sport like Pele did. Those are the facts. Pele never made it in European football??? thats a joke right? when Pele and Santos toured Europe in the early 1960;s they CRUSHED the European champions.
benglassman Bradman dominates in cricket more than Pele in soccer.
Bradman was indeed a unique phenomenon regardless of sport. But cricket is a different and much smaller sport than soccer.
aspacepig football not soccer
Gareth Cassidy football not soccer
Pele was an outlier in fact. An extraordinarius genious of soccer. The best player ever.
For soccer to make it in the United States, NewYork has to have a marquee team. The Cosmos were an international all-star team. True, Pele made a lot of money, but because of Pele more international superstars like Beckenbauer, Carlos Alberto, Chinaglia, and Steve Hunt came to the Cosmos.A Cosmos game was truly an event! Pele was the greatest player ever to play the game. Remember THIS IS COSMOS COUNTRY!
I remember watching this game on TV.Was a huge Cosmos fan from the start in 1971 at the old
Yankee Stadium.
Very nice to see this match after all these years.Great fans as well.
Who in your opinion historically is a bigger club Chelsea or new york cosmos
@@keyuantejohnson6266 Hard to say but probably Chelsea who have bern around about 100 years won plenty play attractive football and have had great players .The Cosmos still stuttering along need to establish themselves again and develop their type game again to inspire a new generation of fans.
I remember watching this. Thanks for posting!
The Dallas Tornado's starting goalkeeper that afternoon was Kenny Cooper, who later coached the Baltimore Blast to a Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) Championship in 1984. His son Kenny Jr., who played for another team from the Metroplex (FC Dallas), is currently the starting striker for the Portland Timbers.
My uncle Albert Jackson played in this game. On loan from oldham fc in England. Theres a pic on the front page of the North American soccer guide 1976
To dallas tornados number 4
It's amazing to see how they could afford to get Pele at that time but not to keep the field in proper conditions.
It was a weird time. The Cosmos bounced around a few different home fields befoe Giants Stadium. This particular place, Downing Stadium was already dilapidated and past it's prime by the time of this game (it's still around!) was mostly used by rec leagues, and there was no care put by the city into the grounds beyond cutting whatever grass there still was. The Cosmos moved into GIants Stadium in 1977.
From what I heard the grounds crew painted it green for tv so as to not be embarrassed about the lack of real grass. Wiki
Always be the king only one king pele ❤❤❤❤
It is nice to have the opportunity to watch these historic soccer games. I think that it's been hard for soccer to be a well considered sport in the USA, the land of opportunities (so they say in the movies), and it is undeniable that, hand in hand with the native soccer players, the foreigner ones have fought to reach soccer to a high and popular status in that great country. Long life to soccer! (I love football and basketball too, and enjoy watching hockey and baseball, though I am spanish).
Football futbol is real one.i dont know what soccer is
Pele is no doubt a super awesome soccer player and a legend!!
I've seen a few comments about him playing in Europe at the time...I've read and seen a lot about that, but Warner Communications paid twice of what he had been offered by any other club on the earth. $1.4 Million was unheard of at the time. He was the first Million dollar contract in US history. Even Hank Aaron was only making $800,000.
In 1975, Hank Aaron was only making $240,000.
@@thecelebratedmisterk Exactly his last two years he was making $240,000. Even Catfish Hunter was under $800,000 a year with the Yankees.
@@jacksmith5692 Yes, Catfish signed for $640,000 a year with the Yankees.
@@thecelebratedmisterk Thank You, in 1975 Tom Seaver was making $173,000 with the Mets coming off a Cy Young season. Talk about underpaid and then we all saw M Donald Grant rip him in the press as greedy and we wonder why Seaver demanded a trade on June 15 of 1977.
When America was happy and full of life. I got to see Pele in Balboa Park the following Spring in San Diego against the Jaws. It was packed and fun. Still have the program.
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One think is for sure that the fans really had one hell of time up front and in person to watch the greatest player of all time in Pele in that kind of a soccer field.
Actually now that you mention it, you're right, he was declared a national treasure. A couple years after the WC in 1970 though he was free and still given options to play in Europe
RIP Pele 🇧🇷
Downing Stadium was a dump...underneath the Triborough Bridge...for this game the field (or pitch, if you prefer) was painted green for the CBS telecast
Yes but the night I fist saw Pele there was fantastic.
The king Pele😀
I love the plea at the end,
'please stay off the field'
The hype of Pele playing at created this so just let the fans meet their cult hero man
The G.O.A.T.
When Pele came to the States he transformed football into a truly mondial sport.
And the States recieved after that ,Johan Cruyff as well. Lucky bastards.
And now messi
Can't believe that was 40 years ago
If I remember Kyle Rote Jr. was on the Tornado and was always a star in the superstars competitions.
New Yorkers appreciating Soccer.....in what alternate universe did this video take place?
The World Name, for The World Game is FOOTBALL ... Fact!.
Fain video ! 👍
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素敵だなぁ。
素晴らしい時代！
At 1:53 there is a hearse in the upper left background.
The field looks like shot!!!!
my birthday is dec 2 , im hoping they announce the re launch(either mls or nasl) of the cosmos by then
@miguelencielo Also he was the man of the match in the world cup final of 58 at 17. Its not like he was a squad player coming off the bench in that tournament. He inspired his team mates just by being in the team, and his performance in the final against Sweden was typical of his peformances for Santos. Whenever the breakthrough was needed, Pele delivered. Garrincha was equally as important in 58 and of course 62. Brazil never lost a match when Pele and Garrincha played together.
Iiiiih caralho olha a bandeira do FOGÃO 1:15
is this the game where they painted the grass to make it green
tartan marvel yes it is
@miguelencielo He didn't miss that "entirely". He got injured in the 2nd or 3rd game of the 62 world cup.
@adub4ever They've already announced the team is coming back. I wouldn't count on them making it to MLS just yet, though. And the NASL is a league in name only at the moment.
That's not a hearse, that's on old-style ambulance. Most ambulances were bulit on hearse chassis until van/truck chassis based units became the standard in the early 80s.
Heck, in a lot of small towns, often times the local funeral home's hearse pulled double duty as the local ambulance, as well.
goodness for such class on the field in terms of talent you'd think the pitch would be in better shape but it was worse than an excuse for a pitch u encounter sometimes in the Carribean
Highest level? You don't have a clue. Santos played all over the world, and rarely lost when Pele was playing. All those Ballon D'Or winners would have lost out if South American players were eligible for the award, during his playing career. Brazilian football was technically superior and Pele was the crown jewel of their greatest generation.
I remember the game but wasn't Pele choppered in?
@UlsterGroundhopper "Pele or Maradona, that's what people ask me. I played against the artist Maradona a few times and I was always on the winning side. Pele, Cruyff, Maradona, Garrincha - they are the best ever. There are no players of that level now."
- Socrates, 2011
@MsVroom69 I can't put the URL into a comment, but if you go to dave brett and then add a dot and a com, you can order a copy of the game, along with (probably) many others your dad played in.
Trying to find out when Pele played in Ft Lauderdale Strikers vs Cosmos. .. late 70s guessing. ...
1977 was his last season and the first year for the Strikers after moving up from Miami. The Cosmos and Strikers played four times that year: May 15 and June 8 in the regular season (Pele had three goals in the first game, one in the second) and August 14 and 17 in the playoffs (he scored in the second game).
thecelebratedmisterk thank you....
@thecelebratedmisterk No, he really wasn't into money, for example while he was with his first team Santos he could've went anywhere in Europe but he chose to stay in Brazil
I'd hate to be waiting for an ambulance and have something that looks like a hearse show up.
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umm... NY Red Bull?
4:01 There you see the dark man lurks! 😂
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@adub4ever Yes, it was awful. They painted it green so it would look better. Pele got the green paint on his feet and thought it was a fungus and told the Cosmos he'd never play on the field again. Then they told him it was just pain.
wow it seems that they used to play better than the mls teams nowadays!!
@Legoman2022 Pele wasn't about money? Hel-LO?
why soocer is like football in america?
I thought the Brazilian government i.e. the military junta just wouldn't give him permission to go, as his brilliance in the domestic league kept the masses content in politically turbulent times
il N1 .....maradona tra i primi 10
Wtf is this? what team and league is this?
Are you aware of the history of the game in this country?
Yeah. MLS sucks. But I only watch BPL, BUND, LA LIGA
So how do you now MLS sucks?
Also, as the title and description say, this was in 1975, the North American Soccer League and the New York Cosmos. MLS would not exist for another 21 years.
What happened to the league? They have full stadiums?
What happened to the NASL? Lots of things. They over-expanded to capitalize on the soccer boom ignited by Pele, and the ownership groups they allowed in were not committed for the long haul. They never set up any type of infrastructure like stadiums or academies or training grounds. There was never any worthwhile television contract or TV money. We were still years away from developing American players who could be the rank and file of the league. The national team was not very good and interest in the sport in general was not as deep as it is today. Still, some of the best players of the time played in the NASL and many cities were able to draw crowds. The league just could not withstand the ebbing of the interest post-1981, a bad economy and the collapse of its flagship franchise when Atari (yes, that Atari) struggled.
There are a lot of reasons the NASL eventually disappeared. But for a time, it was a lot of fun.
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Wow, Anonymous Internet Guy. How about you read the history? They DID convince Pele that "If you go to Real Madrid, all you can do is win another championship. If you come to America, you can win a country." But Read Clive Toye's book (if you can read, that is). Pele had a string of bad investments and bad advice and economic realities DID play heavily into his decision to ultimately come to America. So please, please, please, stop being a teenager.
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@boognishishere gee ... whats the phrase im looking for ... ah yes!- I THINK HE FUCKING DESERVED IT!! Hello! The Greatest player of all time!? Im pretty sure money was a factor to make the greatest player come to some upstart country when it came to football.
What if neymar joined NYCFC
@UlsterGroundhopper That's a weak argument that is easily dismissed. You obviously don't realise how strong Brazilian club football was in the 60's. Santos destroyed the European champions! Played them off the park. There were world record offers from the best clubs in Europe to bring Pele over, but the Brazilian government intervened for reasons beyond football. Its was politics. Pele was a national hero and the dictatorship wanted to take advantage of his popularity during their regime.
@IGNORANCEISTHEENEMY2 And he had to come back with the Cosmos because he was broke. And he wasn't in Once in a Lifetime because they wouldn't pay him. No, not into money at all. Led a pauper's life.
I don't know pele won world cups when the Europeans where trying to rule the pitch...maradona won but had to go to Europe to be the best.
lol please stay off the field
great vid
are you smoking crack? he won 3 world cups and only didnt win a 4th because he was brutally hacked out of the tourney....he dominated Brazilian soccer when the Brazilians were the best in the world. What the hell are you talking about ?
That's very difficult to answer. But there is no doubt that you can't claim to be the best and then shy away from the game's greatest challenge. It would be like a Tennis player who won't play the slams. A racing driver who avoids F1, A golfer who only plays in the Ryder Cup. To compare players from different generations is unfair so I stick with 1958-1970 and would look at the Ballon d'or for the best of his time. Two jump out. Eusebio, and the ill fated George Best.
If you watched Pele play, there should be no doubt he was the GOAT. I saw George Best play in Pele's last year and even with Pele slowing down he was magnificent.
Maradona is the goat
1999 Cosmos um e zero Minessota Liga Inglesa de Futebol Whi - fi.
The World cup is a National team tourney once every four years, it is not remotely near the calibre of highest level club football, which is where most of Pele's team mates in those world cup wins played. He spent his club career in the mediocre quality leagues of Brazil and USA, which is not even close to putting in a 40 game season in Spain, England, Italy etc. You cannot be the best if you haven't played at the highest level and he did not play at the highest club level.
Pele destroyed all european teams on tour in the 60s.
For example santos beat eusebio’s Benfica 5-3 with pele getting a hat trick
@@user-mh6nm5mv4b However, the once a year World Club Championship was regarded as little more than a glorified friendly. The true test of any player is to come and play regular season Football in a top league. Because there, you have to pit your wits against inferior teams and players. Its in those games that the greats have traditionally shone while other players with great talent have been found wanting. When coming up against opponents who know themselves to be inferior and are intent on preventing you play by other means. The closest the world ever got to seeing Pele in this scenario was the 1966 World cup where he couldn't cope with such treatment. whereas virtually every other great player of the last seventy years had to deal with this on a weekly basis in England, Spain, Italy and Germany's top division.
@@TheGiantKillers Pele had 205 goals in 196 games vs european teams. Enough said
@@TheGiantKillers Brazilian league was a top league back then and pele dealt with players trying to injure him every game
@@user-mh6nm5mv4b You could not be more right. In Pele’s time the best league in the world was the Brazilian where all the world champions of 1958, 1962 and 1970 played during all of their career. Very few players went to play in Europe, like Altafini(Mazola) and Amarildo who were benchers for Brazil and surpassed by Pele but became top scorers and legends when they went to play for Juventus and Milan. Very few south americans played in Europe, nothing like today. Pele surpassed all those legends that played for Brazil and played in the combined Brazilian league(Rio-SP championship, and Taca Brasil) where Santos faced the best teams from all Brazil. That says a lot about his worth.Pele faced all those greats that Pele haters praise(contradicting themselves!) when they play for Brazil(Garrincha, Didi, Vava, Gerson, Tostao, Rivelino, Jairzinho) and beat them every time. Among Pele's victims is Botafogo (which had Garrincha, Didi, Nilton Santos, Amarildo, Jairzinho, Zagallo), Santos beat them 4-0 in Copa Libertadores 1963 and also 0-5 in the Brazilian league. Others were Rivelino's Corinthians which didn't beat Santos in a game for 11 years in a row during Pele's time!!! All those Brazilian greats were not even close to matching Pele's dominance at club level. These are details of Pele's record against Europeans. Pele tore them to shreds. www.bigsoccer.com/threads/pele-s-santos-vs-european-clubs-statistical-overview.157423/ The idea that Pele could not compete against Europeans is an absolute joke. The standard in Brazil was far higher than that in Europe when Pele played.
He wouldn't be able to hang with the present game, did you see the horrible control they had? Just look at the first part where they're in the locker room 😂
tap me rubbish.
dude look at the pitch!!! its in horrible shape
@bolder2009 but he never actually played at the highest level, club football in Europe. That's like the greatest Baseball player in the world never playing in MLB and that's why Pele can never be called the best.
brazilian leagues in the 60s were higher level than european ones. that's the hype of the first three brazilian championships. all players played in brazil, and the 70 team is regarded as the best ever by a lot of football folks.
good god that is the worst looking pitch i've seen in my entire life, i know it was the 70s and before the cosmos were famous but jesus christ that's awful
Downing Stadium dude. It still looks like that.