Tag: Lamport Stadium

Toronto Metros-Croatia was an anomaly within the North American Soccer League during the NASL’s boom years of the mid-to-late 1970’s.  The club emerged in 1975 from the merger of the NASL’s Toronto Metros and Toronto Croatia of Canada’s small-time National Soccer League. To the chagrin of NASL executives the merged club played up its ethnic identity, coming up with the awkward “Metros-Croatia” moniker and filling its management (entirely) and roster (largely) with ethnic Croats. But in their finest hour, the club acquired Western European stars Eusebio and Wolfgang Sunholz and rode these late season acquisition to the 1976 Soccer Bowl title.