The season this year is split between spring (April - June) and summer/fall (August - October). I believe the primary reason is that the New York Cosmo's start play in August (I'm not sure why they couldn't in April...)
OT: Official FC Edmonton 2013 NASL Thread
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Well technically you can sellout a show and still not have anyone show up. The NHL doesn't count actually butts in the seats either. Something they were warned about when claiming they had such good ticket sales in some of the smaller markets.
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The Eddies are currently 1-2-1 in the Fall season with a game coming up this weekend against the New York Cosmos!
The Eddies are currently 1-2-1 in the Fall season with a game coming up this weekend against the New York Cosmos!
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The Eddies are currently 1-2-1 in the Fall season with a game coming up this weekend against the New York Cosmos!
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Not quite the verve, cache, or excitement that name used to elicit.
Those were good times in the former NASL. Playing at Commonwealth and against the big clubs.
Might be able to make it to this one.
I've been impressed with the FC Edmonton product this year - especially in the fall season. Some fun games of late. If Fath doesn't give up too early and they keep building, they might be able to have some success attendance wise.
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i'd like to watch this game. is streaming available?
edit: wow, the Cosmos do even have European champion Marcos Senna. interesting.
edit: wow, the Cosmos do even have European champion Marcos Senna. interesting.
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Wish I would of seen a few of those games. I'm going to spend the day watching highlights on youtube. I wonder if The Eddies will be wearing the throw back Driller jerseys this weekend.
I dont see fath ever really throwing in the towell. Especially after he just sank half a million into the new seats at Clarke. If he doesn't make his money back in ticket/merch sales im sure he will make some back in transfer fees and what not.
All games can be streamed at NASL.com on gameday!
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They were interesting and heady times for soccer here and in NA. With teams like the fabled Cosmos actually playing here. But as part of league play. Imagine the excitement of the LA galaxy coming to town only more often.
The Drillers were a Dutch modeled and stocked club, but without the typical offensive verve one would find on such a club. They had trouble scoring on the big pitch and were better defensively afairk. Lodeweges played for quite awhile Kai Haskaavi (sp) as well. They had a few apparent name players but that had some trouble producing. My own take was that the Drillers reminded me of the before Gretzky Oilers of the WHA. A sometimes solid club on backend that had decent work ethic and would play a reserved game and make it difficult for opponents with more finish to get results.
What was interesting is that the same drillers club that had difficulty offensively, and that had trouble generating scoring chances on the big pitch were quite exciting, agressive, and competitive on the small indoor NASL circuit where they performed very well.
Drillers at the time were front page news at least in the Edmonton Sun, the new upstart paper, which treated the Drillers to full coverage from the outset. Really at the time, with the Oilers still being in the WHA, and the Esks being of course in the CFL, the Drillers were the only home based team to be in the big leagues. (NA version anyway) The view was the majors in a sense had come to town and thats how it was perceived. That generated a lot of excitement on its own as the NASL was perceived differently. As soon as the Oilers entered the big league NHL that advantage was gone.
Interesting times and so much changes. It being sad of course what happened to that dream and ultimately the whole NASL that fizzled out. America just wasn't ready and didn't have enough homegrown talent. That ultimately is what killed the NASL. Americans are more prone to viewing and following american athletes. So the current MLS version has a better balance.
It will be live on The Score.....or Sportsnet 360.....whatever the hell it's called these days
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This would have been a blast to witness. cant believe its taken soccer almost 30 years to catch back up to what it once was in USA/Canada.
If you are at the game tomorrow come on by section 107 (ESG) introduce yourself and ill buy you a beer!
That was a horrible call. The ball clearly didn't touch Watson's hand. It actually went up and hit him in the shoulder area. Sheena Dickson has made some very bad calls.
Besides that. 3200 people isn't a bad of a crowd so it was a pretty good atmosphere.
Besides that. 3200 people isn't a bad of a crowd so it was a pretty good atmosphere.
