After a below-average showing days earlier that resulted in a 1-1 draw with Canada in Vancouver, the U.S. WNT needed to raise their level of play, big time, in their final game of 2017. And they did just that. The U.S. Women finished its 16-game 2017 schedule on a high note with a 3-1 win […]
U.S. WNT & Canada Play To 1-1 Draw In Vancouver
Canada and the United States women have played 57 times at the senior national team level. Canada has won only three times. The series stand’s 47-3-7 in favor of the Americans. Draw #7 came Thursday night in Vancouver in front of a sellout crowd of 28,017 fans at BC Place. Playing just across the border in […]
PART FOUR: KAP’S RECRUITMENT METHODOLOGY – LIFE CHANGING
It is not fully known why Kap pursued his unorthodox method of recruitment, or if he seriously tried other avenues in his attempts to procure players. He could have contacted the hundreds of professional teams in Europe, whose stock-in-trade is players, many of whom are released each year. This route offered access to a regular […]
PART FIVE: THE COMBINED TRAINING CAMP, WORLD TOUR and MINI-TOUR GAME RECORDS
Conflicting dates, scores and opponents’ names are entered in parentheses. Attendances are more difficult to confirm, I have used the numbers given in Billy Crosbie’s and Dave Morrison’s World Tour account. Also noted are those I have obtained through newspapers (Media reported), and left blank a number I was unable to confirm. Other publications have […]
PART THREE: THE 40 IN 125 + 4 – REALITY
The more intense part of the tour (post training camp) kicked off October 10 in Istanbul, Turkey, where the Tornado earned a credible 2-2 tie against Fenerbahce. It was one of a limited number of successes on a journey where defeats were more normal than wins or draws. From that point coaching sessions were fewer, […]
PART TWO: TRAINING CAMP – CLOSE CALLS – STILL RECRUITING
August 4, before the training camp (originally planned for five weeks, although it ran longer) began, the Tornado were allowed onto the hallowed turf of the Bernabeu, Real Madrid’s famous stadium. But briefly and only for publicity purposes; where they met the great Ferenc Puskas, Honved’s, Hungary’s, Real Madrid’s and finally Spain’s ‘galloping major,’ the […]
The NASL Experience, By Bobby Moffat
THE DALLAS TORNADO WORLD TOUR 1967 – 68 A CHAPTER FROM THE NASL EXPERIENCE, BY BOBBY MOFFAT A DALLAS TORNADO PLAYER 1969-1977 Bobby Moffat, a professional football player born and raised in Portsmouth, England, came to America in the early days of the North American Soccer League to play for the Dallas Tornado. He played […]
PART ONE: THE PROCESS BEGINS – COACHING CREDENTIALS?
While the USA and the NPSL, soon to be the NASL, battled for the North American sporting public’s allegiance in the summer of 1967, a group of very young, mostly inexperienced players, was beginning to assemble at a training camp on the other side of the Atlantic; preparing to represent the Dallas Tornado Soccer Club […]
Arena, Dorrance Elected to United Soccer Coaches HOF
Bruce Arena and Anson Dorrance, two of the country’s most successful soccer coaches, are the newest members of the United Soccer Coaches Hall of Fame, the association announced on Wednesday. Both individuals will be inducted as the Class of 2018 on Friday, January 19 during the annual Awards Banquet at the United Soccer Coaches Convention […]
USWNT Preps For Final Games Of 2017
U.S. Women’s National Team head coach Jill Ellis has named 23 players to the training camp for the final two matches of 2017 as the USA faces Canada on Nov. 9 at BC Place in Vancouver, Canada (7 p.m. PT on ESPN2, Univision app and UDN delayed at 1 a.m. ET) and on Nov. 12 at […]