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In 1971, Warner Brothers bought a local football team, the New York Cosmos. In 1975 the club signed a three-year deal with Pele, the greatest player the game had ever known. More big name signings would follow: the German superstar Franz Beckenbauer, the charismatic Italian striker Giorgio Chinaglia and Brazil's 1970 World Cup winning captain, Carlos Alberto. Almost overnight, the Cosmos became the hottest ticket in town. Celebrities like Robert Redford, Mick Jagger, Barbara Streisand and Steven Spielberg attended games. Cosmos players were mainstays of the hedonistic club scene at Studio 54. Set against the backdrop of a city on the edge, Once In A Lifetime is much more than a football book. It is a vivid evocation of the mania that surrounded the Cosmos at the height of their powers in 1977 and the explosion in new forms of popular culture, the debauchery of Studio 54 and the razzmatazz and conspicuous expenditure that surrounded them. It is a story that embraces millionaires, superstars, gangsters, groupies, glamour, power struggles, alcoholic excess, drugs, and full-on fistfights. It also has some of the greatest football players ever to grace the game.
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GAVIN NEWSHAM is a journalist and writer based in Brighton. He is currently a Contributing Editor at Maxim, the world's biggest-selling men's life style magazine and is a regular contributor to the Observer's Sport Monthly magazine. Previously, he has been the Senior Writer at the groundbreaking football magazine 90 Minutes and the Chief Features writer on the multi-award winning FHM magazine. His first book, a biography of the golfer John Daly, Letting The Big Dog Eat, met with widespread critical acclaim on its release in June 2003.
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And hopefully, it's only once.
2007/6/9
By RedPower
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形式:ペーパーバック
I've now seen the documentary and read the book, and this is a story that is both fascinating and familiar to sports fans. The film sort of centers around the dream of Steve Ross, president of what became Warner Communications and the Cosmos. It paints him as a selfless and daring pioneer who was desperate to make soccer big in this country. To an extent, he really was that. The book is less charitable to his behavior, painting him as a poor sport who brought Warner to its knees. Ross partied on the company's dime, looked like a playboy genius, fouled things up with a few bad decisions, and got out with an enormous bank account. Hey, wouldn't we all love to do that? Except it cost thousands of people at Warner and Atari their jobs. Many American soccer players' dreams of playing in their domestic pro league were crushed. I hope Major League Soccer executives read this as their bible, and don't let history repeat itself. In the end, you have to feel sorry for the fans and players, who hoped in vain their success would last forever. But those few good years were pretty sweet, and it was entertaining to learn what happened behind the scenes after years of wondering.
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Great Story!!!
2006/11/30
By Howard Wexler
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形式:ペーパーバック
ESPN Classic has been playing the movie made of this book. The two complement each other perfectly.
The story is of the NY Cosmos, a star-laden team that flamed in the late 70s and early 80s. They routinely drew sellout crowds to Giants Stadium, led by such stars as Pele, Beckenbauer, Chinaglia, Alberto. Then a few years later, the team (and the league) disappeared. But what a ride, a hysterical story that is told quite well by Newsham. He interviewed many people (except Pele who reportedly wanted big $$$).
Book is weighed down by Newsham talking about what was happening in the country and world at the time.
But the story is so good. Even if you are NOT a soccer fan, and I am not, it is worth reading.
The story is of the NY Cosmos, a star-laden team that flamed in the late 70s and early 80s. They routinely drew sellout crowds to Giants Stadium, led by such stars as Pele, Beckenbauer, Chinaglia, Alberto. Then a few years later, the team (and the league) disappeared. But what a ride, a hysterical story that is told quite well by Newsham. He interviewed many people (except Pele who reportedly wanted big $$$).
Book is weighed down by Newsham talking about what was happening in the country and world at the time.
But the story is so good. Even if you are NOT a soccer fan, and I am not, it is worth reading.
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Once in a Lifetime Book
2013/4/14
By David Oh
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I loved reading about the behind the scenes stories that made the New York Cosmos such an exceptional NASL organisation. As a young kid, I remember when the NASL was still around. Unfortunately, after the 1981 season, the NASL faced financial challenges. I wish that all the soccer leagues would merge with the current NASL right now just as the AFL and NFL merged into one league making the NFL we enjoy today. In 1980, the Seattle Sounders had their best regular season. Every time the New Cosmos came to play them, I knew that they were special. I certainly hope that the Cosmos can come back to the level of prominence they had from the 1970s to the early 1980s.
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