Women’s United Soccer Association (2001-2003) Born: April 10, 2000 – WUSA founding franchise Folded: September 15, 2003 First Game: April 21, 2001 (W 1-0 @ Carolina Courage)
The Boston Breakers were one of twelve original franchises in the springtime United States Football League (1983-1985). Expectations were low for Head Coach Dick Coury’s club, which failed to sign virtually all of its draft picks and fielded a team of low budget, no-name NFL training camp cuts, Canadian Football League castoffs and prison parolees. To nearly everyone’s surprise, the Breakers finished 11- 7 and narrowly missed the final playoff spot. Coury was named the USFL’s Coach of the Year.
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.
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.
American Soccer League (1988-1989) American Professional Soccer League (1990) Born: 1987 – ASL founding franchise Folded: Postseason 1990 First Game: April 17, 1988 (L 3-1 @ Maryland Bays)
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