Los Angeles Skyhawks
December 11, 2015
The Los Angeles Skyhawks were a 2nd Division pro soccer outfit that competed in the American Soccer League during the late 1970’s. The Skyhawks won a league championship in its debut season of 1976 under the direction of British coach Ron Newman, who went on to be a highly successful coach in the NASL, MISL and Major League Soccer. The club labored in the shadows of the bigger budget Los Angeles Aztecs of the NASL, who boasted international superstars such as George Best and Johan Cruyff during the same years that the Skyhawks scuffled along in obscurity.
