Haggis Wit’: Scots footballers in Philadelphia
With Scottish players making moves to MLS, and Celtic soon to be playing Real Madrid at the Linc, PSP looks at Philadelphia’s history of players from the land of heather.
With Scottish players making moves to MLS, and Celtic soon to be playing Real Madrid at the Linc, PSP looks at Philadelphia’s history of players from the land of heather.
MacMath for Save of the Week. Gaddis moves up in Rookie Rankings, Gomez gets honorable mention. The Union’s payroll place in global pro sports. Four area teams in opening rounds of US Open Cup. Coach of 1973 NASL champion Philadelphia Atoms survives alligator attack. More news.
This concludes the two-part “Great Philly soccer teams: Philadelphia Atoms.” You can read Part I here. Before Atoms coach Al Miller took the young team to England to train and to scout for some British players to fill out the roster, back in Philadelphia, Atoms general manager Bob Ehlinger’s marketing […]
The Philadelphia Atoms joined the NASL as an expansion team in 1973. They were the first expansion team to win a championship in its first year in any American professional sport. That they accomplished this with a squad managed by an American coach that was largely made up of Americans […]
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