25 Jan 2019
Stay Close
The underdog story of a fencer from Brooklyn who overcomes a gauntlet of hardships on the road to the Olympics.
Big-Time Soccer: The Remarkable Rise & Fall of the NASL
Nearly 40 years since its demise, the North American Soccer League continues to linger in the memories and imaginations of soccer fans across the United States — and beyond. The colorful, oftentimes controversial league attracted some of the game’s greatest players: Pele, Best, Cruyff, Muller, Beckenbauer, to name a few. Crowds of 70,000-plus flocked to games as the NASL brought star power to a country where soccer had been virtually invisible just a few years earlier.
Top Billed Cast
Brandi Chastain Self
Clive Toye Self
Pelé Self (archive footage)
George Best Self (archive footage)
Johan Cruijff Self (archive footage)
Giorgio Chinaglia Self (archive footage)
Franz Beckenbauer Self (archive footage)
Cobi Jones Self
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