Category: A-League

Colorado Foxes Soccer

Colorado Foxes (1990-1997)

June 14, 2014

The Colorado Foxes were at outdoor soccer club active for most of the 1990’s in the Denver region.  During their early years, the Foxes competed at the highest level of outdoor soccer played in the United States.  But the frugal American Professional Soccer League (later re-named the ‘A-League’) still fell something short of a true Division I organization.   The Foxes won back-to-back championships in the APSL in 1992 and 1993. The Foxes lost their relevancy after the formation of Major League Soccer in 1996 and the debut of MLS’ Colorado Rapids club the same year. After two years of competition with the Rapids, the franchise moved to southern California and became the San Diego Flash in 1998.

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1995 New York Centaurs soccer ticket brochure from the A-League

New York Centaurs

March 14, 2014

Grimy Downing Stadium on Randall’s Island was the CBGB’s of New York City sporting venues.  In 1975 – the same year that the Ramones, the Heartbreakers, Blondie and the Talking Heads were igniting the punk scene at Hilly Kristal’s dank nightclub in the Bowery – Downing Stadium was the home to the New York Cosmos at the seismic moment that Pele arrived in American to play for that iconic club.  For American soccer junkies of a certain age, proclaiming “…and I was there” at Randall’s Island remains a form of cultural cred that belies the now-demolished oval’s brief and inadequate life as a pro soccer ground.

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1999 Staten Island Vipers yearbook from the United Soccer Leagues' A-League

Staten Island Vipers

October 1, 2013

The Staten Island Vipers were a short-lived 2nd Division pro soccer club that served as an affiliate of the 1st Division New York/New Jersey MetroStars of Major League Soccer. The team lasted just two seasons on Staten Island in 1998 and 1999. In their finest hour, the Vipers upset their parent club, the MetroStars, in the 3rd Round of the 1999 U.S. Open Cup tournament.

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Maryland Mania Soccer

Maryland Mania

September 1, 2013

The Maryland Mania was a seemingly cursed 2nd Division pro soccer club that existed for only one season in the United Soccer Leagues’ A-League during the summer of 1999.  The A-League was the 2nd Division of men’s pro soccer in the United States at the time, competing one level below Major League Soccer.

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2000 Boston Bulldogs Media Guide from the United Soccer Leagues' A-League

Boston Bulldogs

June 29, 2013

The Boston Bulldogs were a short-lived lower-division American pro soccer side that played in suburban Framingham, Massachusetts from 1999 through 2001. The team served as a farm club of Major League Soccer’s New England Revolution. Former Scottish international Steve Nicol, who won England’ Football of the Year award with Liverpool in 1988-89, was the Bulldogs player-manager. The money-bleeding professional club disbanded following the 2001 season and transitioned its business activities towards an elite youth soccer academy that became known as Mass Premier Soccer.

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