Soccer Bowl '82

Soccer Bowl '82
Event Soccer Bowl
New York Cosmos Seattle Sounders
1 0
Date September 18, 1982 (1982-09-18)
Venue Jack Murphy Stadium, San Diego, California
Man of the Match Giorgio Chinaglia
Referee David Socha (USA)
Attendance 22,634

Soccer Bowl '82 was the championship final of the 1982 NASL season. The New York Cosmos advanced to the Soccer Bowl for the third consecutive year and took on the Seattle Sounders in a rematch of Soccer Bowl '77. The match was played on September 18, 1982, at Jack Murphy Stadium, in San Diego, California. The Cosmos won 1–0 and were crowned the 1980 NASL champions. This was New York's fifth North American championship and fourth in six years.[1][2]

Background

New York Cosmos

The New York Cosmos won the Eastern Division with a 23-9 record and a total of 203 points. They defeated the Tulsa Roughnecks in the quarterfinals by two game to one. By virtue of their two-game sweep in the semifinals against the San Diego Sockers, the Cosmos advanced to the Soccer Bowl for the sixth time in franchise history.

Seattle Sounders

The Seattle Sounders qualified for the playoffs as the Western Division champions with an 18-14 record and a total of 166 points. In the quarterfinals they needed all three games to get past the Toronto Blizzard. Likewise their semifinal match took three games to decide a winner. Seattle's two games to one defeat of the Fort Lauderdale Strikers earned the Sounders their second ever trip to the Soccer Bowl.

The goal

In the 31st minute Cosmos sweeper Carlos Alberto picked up the ball in midfield and passed it to Julio Cesar Romero, who slid it to Chinaglia, who bulled his way by hapless defender Benny Dargle and hammered it high and to the right of Paul Hammond in Seattle's goal.

Game summary

Championship results

Cosmos: Hubert Birkenmeier; Carlos Alberto Torres, Andranik Eskandarian, Jeff Durgan, Boris Bandov; Vladislav Bogicevic, Rick Davis, Julio Cesar Romero, Steve Hunt, Giorgio Chinaglia (MVP), Roberto Cabanas. Coach: Julio Mazzei.
Seattle: Paul Hammond; Nicky Reid, Benny Dargle; Ray Evans, Jeff Stock; Kenny Hibbitt, Gary Mills, Alan Hudson; Steve Daley, Peter Ward, Mark Peterson; Coach: Alan Hinton.

The stars Steve Moyers, Johan Neeskens and Wim Rijsbergen were injured and unavailable for Cosmos.[5]

New York
Seattle

1982 NASL Champions: New York Cosmos

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "NASL Championships". naslsoccerbowl.com. North American Soccer League. Retrieved October 27, 2013.
  2. ↑ "NASL 1968-1984 - Yearly Results". nasl.com. North American Soccer League. Archived from the original on October 12, 2013. Retrieved October 12, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Cosmos Win Soccer Bowl". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Associated Press. September 19, 1982. Retrieved October 27, 2013.
  4. ↑ Gammon, Clive (September 27, 1982). "By Giorgio, He Did It Again!: Giorgio Chinaglia revived his one-man show as the Cosmos won Soccer Bowl". Sports Illustrated. Archived from the original on October 14, 2013. Retrieved October 27, 2013.
  5. ↑ Fritz the Flood: Soccer Bowl 1982 New York Cosmos Seattle Sounders, November 21, 2011.

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