The goalkeeper fires for a bare

In the second half of the 1970s, the New York Cosmos It’s a big party that never seems to end: legendary players in their ranks, the stadium is packed every match weekend, music stars passing through the dressing room, VIP invitations to Studio54, tours,…. Although many people have no idea what soccer is all about Pele, Beckenbauer, Carlos Alberto and Giorgio Chinaglia, the idea began to take shape that the American soccer league was picking up speed to catch up with the other leagues. For this, the role of Shep Messing.

Munich’72

Shep Messing (10/9/49) had a reputation for being a somewhat eccentric character. At 24, she’s lived the wild side of life long enough to have an interesting resume: sexual bacchanals, borderline drugs, trying to throw a roommate out a window in college, long sleepless nights . which affected his performance in sports and the stress of living the times, as a Jew of Russian descent, during JJ. YES. Munich 1972 where he defended the goal of the national team USA no military in a professional team. He was shocked by the events of the night of September 4-5 when a Palestinian commando abducted and killed several Israeli athletes. He was 30 meters from the Israeli delegation’s chambers and lived in uncertainty at that moment, along with 11 other athletes of Jewish descent, including Mark Spitz.

On the street for some erotic photos

Returning from JJ. YES. received offers from Mexico and of West Germany to play in minor teams but he did not feel adventurous abroad and settled with New York Cosmos for the 1973-1974 season making his debut in an exhibition game on May 20, 1974.

But his first stage at Cosmos it ended abruptly in December. She had only participated in 9 games when she decided to pose naked for a women’s magazine ‘LIVE‘ for which they paid him about $5,000 (about 26,000 euros today). Several pictures in which he showed his virile member in a state of near erection shook the foundation of New York’s demure directive. The reason is that he violated a moral clause in his contract. Such audacity to take his freedom for some extra-sports issues led to his expulsion from the team.

He justified this by noting that the American Football League needed “visibility.” It didn’t take long to get to another set of NASL: The Boston Minutemen they hired his services for a season and a half. He played 27 games and topped the list of the fewest unbeaten goalkeepers in the 1975-1976 season.

Near the end of the 1976 season, the owner of the Boston Minutemen he started selling players since debts squeezed the club and he found he couldn’t pay the chips. disturbance is one of them.

new destination: the New York Cosmos.

the star team

disturbance back to Cosmos to play the 1976-77 season as the starting goalkeeper, Bob Rigby, was injured. He returned to the team at the best time, in a scenario prepared to promote football USA. But not balanced. only the NY Cosmos the vehicle was towed thanks to steve rosstycoon of the audiovisual industry.

In Pele, Beckenbauer, Carlos Alberto and Giorgio ChinagliaThe Cosmos lived the greatest era of sports. And so did the media: the coverage of the matches was stimulated by the opening of the changing rooms and the publication of pictures of rock stars going to see the sports figures.

disturbance played 30 games and, obviously, the Cosmos the league champion was proclaimed NASL including the famous photo of Pelé being carried on the shoulders of his teammates.

the best paid

He left at the end of the season as a free agent announcing to the press that the NY Cosmos “He didn’t pay her what she thought she deserved” and she didn’t see herself in a place like Tulsa or Rochester. signed for Oakland Stompers for $100,000 (about 397,000 Euros today) per year. That contract made him the highest-paid American in the NASL and ended up playing 25 games.

The Stompers This is a franchise that originated from Connecticut Bicentennials but they only lasted one season California and its owner, Milan Mandarinan American businessman originally from Serbia, took over the franchise in Edmonton. mandarin became rich by starting a computer component company after leaving Yugoslavia in the early 1970s. In the 1990s and 2000s, he bought and sold English football teams Portsmouth, Leicester City and Sheffield Wednesday. disturbance then he ends up in a place he says he doesn’t want to go: Rochester. With the lancers he played 29 games in the 1979 season.

The invention of MISL

Then an indoor soccer league appeared: the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL). There are the players who leave the big stadiums to spend time in the pavilions. This league was born in the 1978-79 season and had the franchise of Rochester Lancers in New YorkThe arrows. disturbance, at the age of 29 he switched to indoor football. With the arrows he played 163 matches between 1978 and 1984.

Now he works as a football analyst for Major Indoor Soccer League and of mls for ESPN In addition to being a commentator on the 2002 and 2006 World Cups and a specialist analyst for New York Red Bulls. It still retains the alluring charm for which it was chosen to delight the eyes and desire the printed paper.