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词条 Atlanta Chiefs
释义

  1. History

  2. Year-by-year

     Outdoors  Indoors 

  3. Honors

  4. Head coaches

  5. References

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1979 (reformed team)
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The Atlanta Chiefs was a soccer team based in Atlanta, Georgia that played in the NPSL and NASL from 1967 to 1972. Their home fields were Atlanta Stadium (1967–1969, 1971–1972) and Tara Stadium (1970). The club was the brainchild of Dick Cecil, then Vice President of the Atlanta Braves baseball franchise who was the Chiefs' owners. Cecil was intrigued with the 1966 World Cup in England and decided that a professional soccer team would add valuable events for Atlanta Stadium. He proceeded to travel through Europe and Africa signing players including Phil Woosnam, Vic Crowe and Peter McParland of Aston Villa as well as Kaizer Motaung who went on to found Kaizer Chiefs FC, who now play in the South African Premier Soccer League. The Kaizer Chiefs name and logo were inspired by those of the Atlanta club.

History

On August 9, 1966, Atlanta Braves, Inc., received a franchise in the newly created National Professional Soccer League. A month later, the corporation hired Phil Woosnam as the team's first head coach which did not gain its name, "Chiefs", until January 8, 1967. By the end of February 1967, Woosnam had brought numerous players to Emory University for trials. After he selected his players, Woosnam led the team through several exhibition games before the Chiefs opened their first season with a 1–0 loss to the Baltimore Bays on April 16, 1967. Following the 1967 season, the NPSL merged with the United Soccer Association to form the North American Soccer League.[1] Atlanta won the 1968 NASL championship. That season, the Chiefs famously twice beat Manchester City after the English Division One side's manager Malcolm Allison described the local talent as "Fourth Division" standard.

Although Atlanta was never home to any of the biggest stars in the league the team did produce one of the most important figures in league history. Phil Woosnam went from the bench as head coach of the Chiefs to the boardroom as the commissioner of the league. He presided over the most critical period in NASL history between 1968–1970 when both attendance and the number of clubs dropped dramatically. He saw the league through to its golden years in the late 1970s when ageing stars from around the world played televised matches in packed stadiums across the country.

Following the 1968 NASL season, the league was in trouble with ten franchises having folded. The 1969 season was split into two halves. The first half was called the International Cup, a double round robin tournament in which the remaining NASL clubs were represented by teams imported from the United Kingdom. The Chiefs were represented by Aston Villa. The team tied for third in the Cup with a 2–4–2 record. For the second half of the 1969 season, the teams returned to their normal rosters and played a 16 game schedule with no playoffs.

While the Chiefs were one of only a few clubs to survive that critical 1969 season, they lasted only a few more years. The club renamed itself the Atlanta Apollos after it was sold to the owners of the Atlanta Hawks in 1973 and played at Bobby Dodd Stadium that season.

The Atlanta Chiefs name and logo (altered slightly) were revived in 1979 when the Colorado Caribous franchise moved to Atlanta, with Cecil and Ted Turner as owners. The team again played at Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium for three seasons and also at Omni Coliseum for two NASL Indoor seasons until folding after the 1981 season.[2] Players for the Atlanta Chiefs included Brian Kidd, Adrian Brooks, Keith Furphy, Victor Nogueira, Paul Child, Mark MacKain, Mark Jakobowski, Lou Cioffi, Tony Whelan, Carl Strong, Webster Lichaba, Graham Tutt, Jomo Sono, Bruce Savage, Louis and George Nanchoff.

Year-by-year

Outdoors

YearRecordRegular Season FinishPlayoffsAvg. Attend.
196710–9–124th, Eastern Division, (NPSL)Did Not Qualify6,961
196818–6–71st, Atlantic DivisionNASL Champions5,794
196911–2–32ndno postseason3,371
197011–5–82nd, Southern DivisionDid Not Qualify3,002
197112–5–71st, Southern DivisionRunners-up4,275
19725–3–63rd, Southern DivisionDid Not Qualify5,034
19733–7–93rd, Southern DivisionDid Not Qualify3,317
197912–184th, Central Division, National ConferenceDid Not Qualify7,350
19807–254th, Central Division, National ConferenceDid Not Qualify4,884
198117–151st, Southern DivisionFirst Round6,189

Indoors

YearRecordRegular Season FinishPlayoffsAvg. Attendance
1979–8010–21st, Eastern DivisionDivision Finals5,069
1980–8113–51st, Eastern DivisionSemi Finals9,611

Honors

{{col-begin}}{{col-2}}NASL Championships (1)
  • 1968
  • 1969, 1971 runners up

NASL Regular Season Premierships (1)

  • 1979–80 indoor
  • 1969, 1970, 1971 runners up

Division Titles (5)

  • 1968 Atlantic Division
  • 1971 Southern Division
  • 1979–80 Eastern Division indoor
  • 1980–81 Eastern Division indoor
  • 1981 Southern Division
Coach of the Year
  • 1968 Phil Woosnam
Rookie of the Year
  • 1968 Kaizer Motaung
League Goal Scoring Champion
  • 1969 Kaizer Motaung (16)
  • 1979–80 David Byrne (23) indoor
League Scoring Champion
  • 1969 Kaizer Motaung (16 goals, 4 assists, 36 points)[3]
  • 1979–80 David Byrne (23 goals, 11 assists, 57 points) indoor[4]
{{col-2}}All-Star First Team Selections
  • 1967 Emment Kapengwe
  • 1969 Emment Kapengwe, Kaizer Motaung
  • 1970 Uriel Da Veiga, Dave Metchick, Art Welch
  • 1971 Kaizer Motaung
  • 1972 Paul Child
  • 1981 Brian Kidd
All-Star Second Team Selections
  • 1968 John Cocking, Vic Rouse
  • 1970 Ray Bloomfield, John Cocking, Delroy Scott
  • 1971 John Cocking, Uriel Da Veiga
  • 1972 Art Welch
All-Star Honorable Mentions
  • 1971 Mick Hoban, Manfred Kammerer, Barrie Lynch, Freddie Mwila
  • 1972 John Cocking, Mick Hoban
  • 1973 Paul Child
U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame
  • 1992 Ron Newman
  • 1997 Phil Woosnam
  • 2003 Paul Child
Indoor Soccer Hall of Fame
  • 2012 Ron Newman, Victor Nogueira[5]
  • 2014 Slobo Ilijevski, Bruce Savage[6]
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Head coaches

  • Phil Woosnam 1967 – 1968
  • Vic Rouse 1969 – 1972
  • Ken Bracewell 1973
  • Dan Wood 1979 – 1980
  • David Chadwick 1980 – 1981

References

1. ^Atlanta Chiefs to take on Dallas in Rome Sunday
2. ^http://www.funwhileitlasted.net/2013/05/12/1979-1981-atlanta-chiefs/
3. ^http://homepages.sover.net/~spectrum/year/1969.html
4. ^http://homepages.sover.net/~spectrum/year/1980.html
5. ^{{Cite web |url=http://www.indoorsoccerhall.com/hall-of-fame-classes |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-10-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023060803/http://www.indoorsoccerhall.com/hall-of-fame-classes |archive-date=2013-10-23 |dead-url=yes |df= }}
6. ^http://www.indoorsoccerhall.com/
{{Atlanta Chiefs}}{{NPSL 1967}}{{North American Soccer League (1966–85)}}

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