MISL 1980s: The Story of Indoor Soccer

MISL 1980s: The Story of Indoor Soccer

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Communists, Caviar, and a Conception (Part 1/2)

Communists, Caviar, and a Conception (Part 1/2)

Or, How the NASL's Philadelphia Atoms Brought the Russians to Town and Accidentally Spawned the MISL

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“It should be like Ali-Frazier in a phone booth…”

– Feb. 10, 1974, Bill Lyon, Philadelphia Inquirer sports columnist, on the Philadelphia Atoms versus Moscow Red Army indoor soccer match.

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