Playing for Uncle Sam
A coach transported to the field in a hearse as he played dead. An English manager taken at gunpoint to an Argentinian jail after trying to sign that country''s World Cup captain. The hero of 1966 who talked his team out of going on strike on the eve of a title decider. All are part of the British professionals'' story of life in the North American Soccer League (NASL) in the 1970s and early ''80s...
A coach transported to the field in a hearse as he played dead. An English manager taken at gunpoint to an Argentinian jail after trying to sign that country''s World Cup captain. The hero of 1966 who talked his team out of going on strike on the eve of a title decider. All are part of the British professionals'' story of life in the North American Soccer League (NASL) in the 1970s and early ''80s...
