Category: Western Soccer League

1989 Seattle Storm Media Guide from the Western Soccer League

FC Seattle / Seattle Storm

FC Seattle was a semi-pro (and later professional) soccer club that formed in 1983 following the financial implosion and closure of the popular Seattle Sounders of the North American Soccer League (NASL). The club was originally known simply as Football Club (“FC”) Seattle in 1984 and 1985. By 1985, the fledgling club was arguably the best American outdoor soccer team left standing following the demise of the NASL earlier that year. The Storm would soon join the Western Soccer Alliance and win the championship of that regional league in 1988. The club disbanded following the 1990 season.

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1990 San Francisco Bay Blackhawks Program from the American Professional Soccer League

San Francisco Bay Blackhawks

The Blackhawks were a top-flight Bay Area pro soccer club during the early 1990s, appearing in three straight league title games between 1989 and 1991 and winning the championship of the American Professional Soccer League in 1991. The ‘Hawks featured a number of top American players of the era, including Eric Wynalda, Marcelo Balboa, John Doyle, Dominic Kinnear and Troy Dayak.

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1989 Western Soccer League Media Guide

Arizona Condors

The Arizona Condors were an outdoor soccer club that played for two seasons at Riggs Stadium on the campus of Mesa Community College. The Condors operated as an amateur team in their expansion season of 1989 in the Western Soccer League and did not play its players. The 1989 squad featured some moonlighting professionals, such as indoor soccer veterans and leading scorers Mark Kerlin and Wes Wade. But the team also had players who still had college eligibility remaining. The Condors were a fully professional side for their second and final season in 1990.

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Real Santa Barbara Soccer

Real Santa Barbara

Obscure pro soccer outfit that played two summer seasons at Santa Barbara City College’s La Playa Stadium in 1989 and 1990. Real Santa Barbara joined the Western Soccer League as an expansion club and made their debut in April 1989. The club folded quietly after the conclusion of its second season.

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Portland Timbers Western Soccer League

Portland Timbers (1989-1990)

The 1989-1990 Portland Timbers of the Western Soccer League were the first of several efforts to revive the name, logo and colors of the original Timbers (1975-1982) of the North American Soccer League. The club’s top player was 19-year old goalkeeper Kasey Keller, who won the Western Soccer League’s Most Valuable Player Award as a teenager on an amateur contract during the 1989 season. This version of the Timbers went out of business in 1990 after two seasons of play.

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