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00:00The idea of professional soccer in the United States, no one had really thought about that.
00:04So soccer was dead and then the Wolves come along.
00:12It should be explained that the United Soccer Association gave North America
00:16its first taste of internationally recognized professional soccer in 1967.
00:21Wolves in the 50s were very, very successful. It was the golden era, if you like. It was us
00:30and Manchester United. They were the glamour team, we were the scrubs from the black country.
00:37The 1966 World Cup was carried by satellite into the United States,
00:42so a bunch of sportsmen thought, oh great, next great sport, start a league.
00:48I mean, I'd never been out of England, I'd never been to Wales.
00:52They said they were touring like a rock band, zigzagging across the country.
00:56Just a completely different world.
00:58People were saying, do you want some weed?
01:00Then we thought, we're in trouble here.
01:02Free love, flower power, what more do you want?
01:07And the whips and the wolves met in a championship playoff game at Los Angeles'
01:12Memorial Coliseum to climax the United Soccer Association's inaugural season.
01:17It was madness.
01:18Mr. Yang never seemed to stop.
01:20He did the needleball. We were just catching each other.
01:24Now the match they played has been rated by many observers as the greatest soccer game ever seen
01:29anywhere, and we're convinced that you will agree with that conclusion after viewing this film.
01:34There is that legacy in that they proved that it could work.
01:42People will look back and say, what was the history of soccer in this country?
01:46What they do, they have to land in 1967 and say, this is where it all began.