Chicago Mustangs
The Chicago Mustangs soccer club was a charter member of the United Soccer Association (USA), a 1967 effort to launch a first division professional league here in the States. The USA imported entire European and South American clubs during their offseasons to play the role of American club teams. In 1967, the “Chicago Mustangs” were actually Cagliari Calcio, from the Mediterranean island of Sardinia. The owner of the Mustangs was Chicago White Sox boss Arthur Allyn Jr. and the soccer club played in Allyn’s South Side baseball stadium, Comiskey Park.