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Boston Minutemen Soccer

Boston Minutemen

August 25, 2013

The Boston Minutemen were a nomadic North American Soccer League club that played in a half dozen different stadia during their three-season run from 1974 to 1976. At the peak of their ambitions in 1975, the club signed Portuguese superstar Eusebio, ex-Bayern Munich midfielder Wolfgang Sunholz and the brash American goalkeeper Shep Messing. But owner John Sterge’s financial troubles led to a fire sale of these players in 1976 and the club’s eventual bankruptcy and demise following that season.

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Boston Astros American Soccer League

Boston Astros / Worcester Astros

February 16, 2013

This lower-division Boston-area men’s soccer club of the early 1970’s is perhaps best known for the last game it ever played: a nine (!) overtime stalemate in the 1975 American Soccer League championship game against the New York Apollo. The match only ended when league Commissioner Bob Cousy (yes, that Bob Cousy) stepped in and declared the exhausted clubs to be co-champions.

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