Among the dignitaries on hand was perhaps the only other athlete whose renown spanned the globe - Muhammad Ali.ĭavid Beckham’s arrival in the U.S. 1, 1977, between the Cosmos and Santos, the Brazilian club he spent parts of three decades playing for in his home country. His final game was an exhibition played on Oct. Pelé scored 64 goals in three season for the Cosmos, leading them to the 1977 league title. He was 34 at the time and perhaps no longer “The King.” But he was still a commanding presence on the field and his name brought a buzz the sport lacked in North America.
The standard-bearer of “the beautiful game” joined the New York Cosmos of the NASL.
Here’s a look at others who have come before him:Įdson Arantes do Nascimento was already a three-time World Cup champion and undoubtedly the best player in the world when he left Brazil in 1975 for the chance to be the face of soccer in North America. With a World Cup on the horizon in 2026, Messi’s announcement Wednesday that he will join Major League Soccer’s Inter Miami is another landmark moment for the league and the sport in the United States.īut he’s only the latest big-name international player to bring his talents to the U.S. Tokyo.Lionel Messi is set to become part of the next chapter of men’s soccer in North America. Those include Scottish team Celtic F.C., Dutch teams Feyenoord and FC Twente, Germany's Borussia Dortmund, 1.FC Kaiserslautern, FC St Pauli and Japan's F.C. The media there at the time, reported the next day that Shankly had fallen in love with the song and made it the club anthem.Īs well as being performed by Liverpool fans, You'll Never Walk Alone has also been sung by an array of clubs around the world. You'll Never Walk Alone is a show tune from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel, that was adopted by Liverpool FC in 1963 after Gerry Marsden presented Bill Shankly with a tape recording of his group, Gerry & The Pacemakers, performing the song. And what we see here, as with many other famous Liverpool songs, truly reflects that. And with this comes a very strong and emotional supporters group. Liverpool FC is a club that runs very high on emotion fans have been through just about everything you could imagine, from the heights of winning five European Cups, to the depths of Hillsborough and Heysel.
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