1967: When LA Wolves conquered the USA | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Football or Soccer has had an interesting journey in America but one thing is for certain, there would be no Beckham, Ro | dG1fX3F0OUFycjB1ejA

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00:00The idea of professional soccer in the United States, no one had really thought about that.

00:04So soccer was dead and then the Wolves come along.

00:12It should be explained that the United Soccer Association gave North America

00:16its first taste of internationally recognized professional soccer in 1967.

00:21Wolves in the 50s were very, very successful. It was the golden era, if you like. It was us

00:30and Manchester United. They were the glamour team, we were the scrubs from the black country.

00:37The 1966 World Cup was carried by satellite into the United States,

00:42so a bunch of sportsmen thought, oh great, next great sport, start a league.

00:48I mean, I'd never been out of England, I'd never been to Wales.

00:52They said they were touring like a rock band, zigzagging across the country.

00:56Just a completely different world.

00:58People were saying, do you want some weed?

01:00Then we thought, we're in trouble here.

01:02Free love, flower power, what more do you want?

01:07And the whips and the wolves met in a championship playoff game at Los Angeles'

01:12Memorial Coliseum to climax the United Soccer Association's inaugural season.

01:17It was madness.

01:18Mr. Yang never seemed to stop.

01:20He did the needleball. We were just catching each other.

01:24Now the match they played has been rated by many observers as the greatest soccer game ever seen

01:29anywhere, and we're convinced that you will agree with that conclusion after viewing this film.

01:34There is that legacy in that they proved that it could work.

01:42People will look back and say, what was the history of soccer in this country?

01:46What they do, they have to land in 1967 and say, this is where it all began.