Babes," the Manchester United team said to be the finest in England and one destined to challenge Real Madrid's supremacy in Europe. The tragic airplane disaster at Munich in 1958 that killed most of the team brought the nation to a grinding halt. This was also the era of Wolverhampton Wanderers, winner of three championships during the 1950s, led by English captain Billy Wright; and of Newcastle United, whose spearhead was the double-table Jackie Milburn. Stanley Matthews, the world's most famous player, continued to dazzle fans with his genius after more than 25 years in senior-level competition, and the other heroes of his golden era, Finney, Mortense, Lofthouse, Dickinson, and Manion, left an unforgettable legacy in the hearts and minds of English fans.

In the national team, spirits were revived under the tutelage of manager Alf Ramsey and captain Bobby Moore in the mid-1960s, aided no doubt by the prospect of staging the 1966 World Cup in England itself. With the exception of Moor, Gordon Banks, and Bobby Charlton, there were few int he lineup who could claim world class status, but with the best coordinated backfield in international competition and a confidence of purpose, England entered the eighth World Championship with a reasonable chance of toppling mighty Brazil and surpassing Hungary and Portugal, the other favorites in the competition. England's major stumbling blocks proved to be Argentina and Portugal, but it advanced to the final and won the World Cup with that most controversial of goals off the right foot of Geoff Hurtst. The World Championship had at last been won by the pretender to the throne, albeit on a rain-soaked day with a shot that many believed did not cross the line.

The winning of the World Cup sparked a revival of domestic interest in the game. Manchester United, now rebuilt by Matt Busby into a glorious array of world class talent, became the first English club to win the European Cup in 1968. Though London teams Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United had earlier won the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1963 and 1965, respectively, the major trophy in European club competition had previously been unattainable. In addition, United's championship team included no less than three recipients of the European Footballer of the Year award, more than any other European club since the prize has been awarded. Coupled with a considerable holdover of sentiment from the Munich air disaster, these factors resulted in an unprecedented following for the new Manchester United.

new powers in the 1960s, later dominating the 1970s as well, while Tottenham and Arsenal enjoyed doubled in 1961 and 1971, respectively. Before Liverpool advanced to win the European Cup in 1977, English clubs were conspicuously absent from the final rounds of the two big European club championships (despite the fact that Chelsea and Manchester City had won the European Cup Winners' Cup). The depth of English league soccer, however, was demonstrated by the six English clubs that won the FairsUEFA Cup between 1968-76 (four successive years during one stretch): Leeds, Newcastle, Arsenal, Wolverhampton, Tottenham and Liverpool (twice).

Since 1966, English soccer has suffered an unprecedented crisis of confidence, owing much to its inability to compete with more advanced styled of play on the continent. Its club successes in recent years have been due to an occasional coalescence of traditional English characteristics on the playing field: superb conditioning and speed, decisive tackling, strength, excellence in the air, and consistent goalkeeping. Yet the attractive ball control skills that were once prevalent in England during the 1930s and '50s now appear to be lost to the majority of English players, and tactical advances, such as those under the heading of "total football," have not yet crossed the English Channel. Today there are only 13 countries left that have failed to defeat a once proud England (besides those countries England has yet to meet: Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Cyprus, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, Germany DR, Greece, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, and Rumania. Having failed to advance to the final stages of the 1974 and 1978 World Cups, (as well as the 1974-76 European Football Championship). England has not qualified for the World Championship since 1962, except as hosts or current title holders.

The vast majority of England's international meetings over the decades have been in connection with the Home Internationals. England's consistent superiority over Wales and Ireland (including Northern Ireland) in this series helps to account for its very high overall success rate in cumulative won-lost tabulations. Ireland did not defeat England at all until 1913, and Wales not until 1920. England and Scotland, on the other hand, have amassed near equal records, with Scotland holding a slight lead on points, and England on goal difference.

1951 Newcastle United

1952 Newcastle United

1953 Blackpool

1954 West Bromwich Albion

1955 Newcastle United

1956 Manchester City

1957 Aston Villa

1958 Bolton Wanderers

1959 Nottingham Forest

1960 Wolverhampton Wanderers

1961 Tottenham Hotspur

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## Estonia

One of the expressions of self-assertion made by the Baltic states during their 21-year period of independence between the world wars was to engage other countries in the world game. The most prolific of the three states was Estonia, which had 44 encounters against European teams other than those from Latvia and Lithuania. Estonia's record was less than successful: 44-6-8-30-47-135-20. Twenty-one of these were played against Finland and an additional 12 against Sweden. With Finland there were five victories and six draws, but with Sweden the Estonians were winless and only managed to draw once.

Estonia was the only Baltic nation to have a winning record against an opponent in Europe, their one encounter with Rumania, a 2-1 win in 1937 at Tallinn. Its solitary meetings with Turkey, France, and the Republic of Ireland were all lost, as were three matches with Germany by an aggregate score of 1-11. Estonia managed to draw once with Poland, but lost three other games against Polish teams. Its biggest win occured at home in 1930 to Finland (4-0), and it was Finland who dealt the team its severest blow, a 10-2 loss at Helsinki in 1922. Its European debut having been made in 1920 in the Finnish capital, Estonia ventured into Europe three years before either Latvia or Lithuania, and in late 1939 it was still attempting to gain a foothold against Finnish supremacy, only a few short months before the Baltic states were absorbed into the USSR.

## Estudiantes de La Plata

*Location:* La Plata, Argentina; *stadium:* Paseo del Bosque; *colors:* red and white striped jerseys, black shorts; *honors:* Intercontinental Cup (1968), Copa Libertadores (1968, 1969, 1970), Copa Interamericana (1968), Argentine league champion (1913 shared, 1967).

Founded 1905 at La Plata, the coastal city of Buenos Aires Province and located 30 miles from the Federal District (city of Buenos Aires), by members of Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata. The gymnasts and fencers of the parent club had refused to allow them to play soccer within the structure of their organization. Many of the original members were *estudiantes* at the University of La Plata. The club joined the First Division in 1912. It was the first and only club from outside Buenos Aires to win an Argentine championship (ironically with the lone exception of Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata in 1929), until Rosario Central in 1971. Having won only two

failed to make any lasting impression on
domestic competition.

One of these First Divisions victories,
however, opened a Pandora's Box. In 1967,
under coach Osvaldo Zubeldia, Estudiantes
won the Campeonato Metropolitano (First
Division) and placed second in the first—and
somewhat disorganized—edition of the
Campeonato Nacional, earning the club a
berth in the 1968 Copa Libertadores. Zubeldia,
who took pride in developing players from
relative obscurity, achieved an uncanny
momentum based on determination and a
great deal of rough play, and in its first
attempt, the club won the Copa Libertadores.
On the basis of this victory, the road was now
open to face Manchester United in the
Intercontinental Cup.

This transoceanic showcase exposed Es-
tudiantes to the scrutiny of European public
opinion for the first time, and Europe objected
strongly to what it saw. Though Argentina's
Racing Club had been guilty of violent
behavior and unsportsmanlike conduct in the
world club championship of the year before,
the Estudiantes brand was the worst anyone
could remember. In Estudiantes' home leg,
Manchester United was effectively nudged out
of the game by unfair refereeing, despite
ceaseless Estudiantes fouls, and in Manchester
the Argentines managed to draw and win the
competition of goal aggregate. Vehement
protests from Europe followed, but the series
was, after all, unofficial.

With the aid of automatic entry and byes to
the semi-final round, Estudiantes proceeded to
win two additional South American club
championships in 1969 and 1970 without
having to win another domestic title to qualify,
and again the same pattern emerged. Kicking,
pushing, spitting, and taunting were all part of
game plan, and it worked. In the 1969
Intercontinental Cup, A.C. Milan won convinc-
ingly at San Siro, and in Argentina the Italian
team saved its goal aggregate with a 2-1 loss,
but only after some noses were broken and
Milan's Pierino Prati was kicked in the back
while being attended for another injury. The
crisis boiled over when Argentine President
General Ongania urged the Argentine F.A. to
impose penalties on some Estudiantes players
after seeing the Milan game on television. In
the 1970 edition, Estudiantes lost to the Dutch
club Feyenoord after more of the same, and the
next year, having been defeated in the final of
the Copa Libertadores by Nacional, the
dreaded era of Estudiantes ended.

In subsequent years, it faded into mediocrity
once again, and support at home, which had
swelled many degrees in the space of three
years, receded to its former place. In Europe, as
well as the rest of South America, there was
scarcely a club anywhere that had suffered a
worse reputation than Estudiantes de La Plata.

ESTONIA

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Working List of Entries (cont.)

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WORLD SOCCER

E.C. Corinthians Paulista
corner kick
Costa Rica
crossbar
Cruyff, Johan
Cruzeiro E.C.
CSKA Sofia
Cuba
Cubillas, Teofilo
curling
Cyprus
Czechoslovakia
Dahomey
Dean, William (Dixie)
deaths by injury
Denmark
de Vecchi, Renzo
Dickinson, James
Didi (Valdir Pereira)
disasters
Di Stefano Lauthe, Alfredo
Domingos da Guia (Domongos Antonio da Guia)
Dominican Republic
dribbling
Dukla Prague
Dynamo Kiev
Dynamo Moscow
Dzajic, Dragan
Ecuador
England
episkyros
Estudiantes La Plata
Ethiopia
European Champions' Cup
European Cup Winners' Cup
European Footballer of the Year
European Nations' Cup
Eusebio (Eusebio da Silva Ferreira)
Everton F.C.
Facchetti, Glacinto
Fausto (Fausto dos Santos)
Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)
Feitiço (Luís Matoso)
Fenerbache
Ferencvaros

Feyenoord Rotterdam
field, the
Figi
Finland
Finney, Thomas
five-a-side soccer
C. de R. do Flamengo
floodlit soccer
Fluminense F.C.
follis
Fontaine, Just
Football Association, The
Football Association Cup, The
Football League, The
Football League Cup, The
Ford, Trevor
foreign players in the United States
France
Friedenreich, Artur
friendlies
Gabon
Gallacher, Hugh
Gambia
Garrincha (Manuel Francisco dos Santos)
Genoa C. and F.C.
Gento, Francisco
Germano
Federal Republic of Germany
German Democratic Republic
Ghana
Gilmar (Gilmar dos Santos Neves)
goal nets
goalscoring
Goodall, John
Gornik Zabrze
Grasshoppers F.C.
Greaves, James
Greece
Gren, Gunnar
Grosics, Gyula
Guatemala
Guinea
Guyana
hacking
Hadjuk Split
Haiti
Hamburger S.V.

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Hanappi, Gerhardt
harpastum
Harvard University
Heart of Midlothian F.C.
Herberger, Sepp
Hércules (Hércules de Miranda)
Herrera, Helenio
Hibernian F.C.
Hidegkuti, Nandor
Home International Championship
Honduras
Hong Kong
Honved
Huddersfield Town F.C.
Hungary
Iceland
Independiente
India
Indonesia
international appearances
international competitions (minor)
Internazionale F.C.
internationals
Inter-University Association
Football League
Iran
Iraq
Republic of Ireland
Israel
Italy
Ivanov, Valentin
Ivory Coast
Jair (Jair Rosa Pinto)
JairziMho (Jair Ventura Filho)
Jamaica
James, Alex
Japan
Jekov, Petar
Jennings, Patrick
Johnstone, James
Jonquet, Robert
Jordan
Jurion, Josef
Juvèntus F.C.
Kemari
Kenya
kicking

Kocsis, Sandor
Kolev, Ivan
Kopa, Raymond
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Republic of Korea
Kubala, Ladislav
Kuwait
Labruna, Angel
Laos
Latin Cup
Law, Denis
laws of the game
Lawton, Thomas
Lebanon
Leonidas (Leonidas da Silva)
Lesotho
Liberia
Copa de los Libertadores
Libya
Liedholm, Nils
Lindley, Dr. Tinsley
Liverpool F.C.
Lubanski, Wlodzimierz
ludus pilae
Luxemburg
Madagascar
Maier, Sepp
Malawi
Malaysia
Mali
Malta
Manchester United F.C.
Mandonça, Marcos de
Estádio Municipal, o Maracanã
Marché, Roger
Masopust, Josef
Matthews, Sir Stanley
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mazurkiewicz, Ladislao
Mazzola, Sandrino
Mazzola, Valentino
Meaezza, Giuseppe
Meisl, Hugo
Meredith, William
Mexico
A.C. Milan

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Mitropa Cup
Monti, Luisito
Moore, Robert
Morocco
Morton, Alan
MTK Budapest
Müller, Gerd
Nacional
National Amateur Cup
National Challenge Cup
National Professional Soccer League
Neco (Manuel Nunes)
Netherlands, The
Netherlands Antilles
Netto, Igor
Newcastle United F.C.
New York Cosmos
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Nordahl, Gunnar
Norkopping I.F.K.
Northern Ireland
Norway
Notts County F.C.
Novak, Ladislav
numbered players
F.C. Nürnberg
Oceania Football Confederation (OFC)
Ocwirk, Ernst
Oergryte I.S. Gothenburg
offside rule
Olympiakos Piraeus
Olympic Games
Olympique Marseilles
origin of the game
Orsi, Raimondo
Pakistan
S.E. Palmeiras
Panama
Panathinaikos Athens
Papua and New Guinea
Paraguay
Partizan Belgrade
Partizan Tirana
passing

Pele' (Edson Arantes Nascimento)
penalty kick
C.A. Penarol
Peru
Philippines
Picchi, Armando
pila paganica
Pilgrims F.C.
Piola, Silvio
Planicka, Frantisek
Poland
Popluhar, Jan
Portugal
Pozzo, Vittorio
Pre-Columbian Maya ballgame
Preguinho (João Coelho Neto)
Preston North End F.C.
professionalism
promotion and relegation
Pro Vercelli U.S.
public schools (English)
Puerto Rico
Puskas, Ferenc
Queen's Park A.F.C.
Racing Club Buenos Aires
Rahn, Helmut
Ramallets, Antonio
Rangers F.C.
Rapid Vienna
Rattin, Antonio
Real Madrid C.F.
Red Star Belgrade
referees and linesmen
Rhodesia
Rio Branco Cup
Riva, Luigi
rivalries
Rivelino, Robert
River Plate
Rivera, Gianni
Roca Cup
Rocha, Pedro
Romeu (Romeu Pellicciari)
Rous, Sir Stanley
Ruch Chorzow
rugby
Rumania

5550 Columbia Pike.-Apt. 575

Arlington, Virginia 22204

November 24, 1978

Dr. Henry Kissinger
Chairman of the Board
North American Soccer League
1133 Avenue of the Americas
New York, N.Y., 10036

Dear doctor Kissinger:

It is indeed a pleasure to address myself to you so that I may put forward an idea that could help thousands of young American soccer players as well as millions of fans that wish, once and for all, that the United States field a real american soccer team.

As you well said it in Chicago, Dr. Kissinger, our greatest hope is to be present in Spain in 1982, and it is for this reason that I consider it opportune to humbly present a plan that could allow the U.S. to make the dream of participating successfully in international competition come true.

Firstly and in view of your right to a franchise within the North American Soccer League it would not be altogether impossible to seek the financial support of large enterprises in order to start club activities. Such a team should be made up completely by American players that by 1981 could become the basis for the U.S. Selection of a first rate soccer team. As you well know, there are veritably hundreds of extremely good soccer players in this country that have little or no opportunity of ever playing professional soccer. Within this team that I am proposing (which could call itself the Real America) they would find such an opportunity.

I believe that the technical direction or coaching responsibility should be in the hands of a man of international renown such as Ditmar Kramer of West Germany, who not only would lead the Real America Club but also be preparing future stars for the U.S. team.

Without doubt, Dr. Kissinger, the first two years would not get us the title of Champions of the North American Soccer League, but the seeds sown for the future would bring forth good fruits. As you well know, existing clubs do not have native players on their rosters and subsequently do not have the needed support of the public. Therefore it is easy to understand that if there

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are good American boys playing for the first division team, the
native soccer enthusiast would undoubtedly support their presence.

Let me tell you Dr. Kissinger, I have great
faith in your role and influence with the North American Soccer
League soccer fans. We have the means to make the United States
a world soccer power. All we lack is the decision to face the
challenge. With your knowledge and dedication to do what is right
the dream of millions of soccer fans is not far off.

I am a U.S. citizen of Argentine origin. My specialty is soccer. I have professionally covered the World Championships in Chile (1962); Mexico (1970); West Germany (1974) and Argentina (1978) I have been working on behalf of U.S. soccer since 1960. I contribute to various hispanic papers in the U.S. and write for sports magazines in Peru, Ecuador and Argentina on soccer in the U.S.

Please accept my deep appreciation for what
you may deem fit to do in this beautiful sport, SOCCER.

Very sincerely,

Luis Daniel Uncal

LDU/nt.

DESDE WASHINGTON

"BIENVENIDO DR. HENRY KISSINGER"

Una Enorme Tarea por Hacer

Por Luis Daniel Uncal

"Si él (Dr. Kissinger), con toda su capacidad no logra solucionar estos dos cándentes problemas",...Luis Daniel Uncal ha sobre las exhibiciones circenses y la sindicalización de los profesionales del balompié de la NASL, en la que acaba de ser nombrado Presidente de la Junta de Directores el Dr. Henry Kissinger y quién junto con Phil Woosnam (der.), Comisionado de esa liga entran tan esas dos dificultades.

FOTOGRAFÍA CARLSON

(Washington) La noticia de la designación del ex Secretario de Estado, como Presidente del Consejo de Directores, de la North American Soccer League, representa -sin lugar a dudas- la concesión de un "cheque en blanco", para el balompié norteamericano. Un cheque en blanco que si se sabe aprovechar habrá de rendir excelentes resultados.

La personalidad definida del Dr. Kissinger habrá de pesar en las reformas que necesita imperiosamente la conducción del deporte en los Estados Unidos. Sus conocimientos protundos del fútbol internacional; su indiscutible capacidad negociadora para solucionar "imposibles", su carisma personal en todos los niveles, y su inteligencia al servicio de lo mejor, deberán ser aprovechadas por los dirigentes del soccer profesional. Desperdiyar ésta excelente oportunidad sería un crimen.

Desde nuestro punto de vista, la incorporación directa del ex Secretario de Estado en los puestos directivos del soccer norteamericano, tiene el mismo valor que el ingreso del gran Pelé en el conjunto del

Cosmos. La Perla Negra le dió entonces el "empujón" que necesitaba el incipiente soccer estadounidense", y la llegada de Kissinger le da el "status internacional", que le estaba faltando.

Sin embargo, no debemos pensar que ha llegado el Mesías que necesitábamos, por cuanto dentro del comercializado soccer de los EE.UU. existen poderosísimos intereses que habrán de hacer "muy difícil la labor del Presidente del Consejo de Directores". Por supuesto que basados en los antecedentes del Ex-Secretario de Estado es que le hemos "extendido el cheque en blanco", como seña inestructible de nuestra confianza y esperanza en su futura labor.

Varios son los problemas a solucionar dentro de la North American Soccer League; adopción del sistema y reglas internacionales del fútbol; americanización de los conjuntos profesionales; integración de un plantel de jueces capacitados; defenestrar los espectáculos extra TRADEPORTIVOS adoptados de otros deportes, tales como los grupos de "Cheerleaders" y

reconocer la agremiación de los jugadores de soccer. Estos dos últimos deberán ser los primeros en solucionarse, ya que afectan enormemente el desarrollo normal del balompié profesional. En el caso de los "Cheerleading Groups", los equipos de la Liga de Fútbol americano, que son prácticamente los creadores de este "circo-vadeuville", están desintegrando los mismos debido a que algunas de las "chicas", han posado desnudas para la revista "Playboy".

En cuanto a la agremiación de los jugadores "soplan vientos de tormenta en el horizonte de la NASL", ya que al no reconocer los propietarios de clubes la asociación, los jugadores han recurrido a la Comisión Nacional de Relaciones de Trabajo, la cual dictaminó que deben iniciarse conversaciones entre los dueños de equipos y los jugadores agremiados. Como los propietarios han decidido hacer "oldos sordos", a las aspiraciones de los jugadores, estos acaban de anunciar que iniciarán una huelga a partir del sábado 24 de Marzo de 1979, día en que deberá comenzar la temporada decimotercera de la NASL.

Si el Dr. Kissinger, con toda su reconocida capacidad negociadora no logra solucionar estos dos cándentes problemas, entonces sí deberemos pensar que el "cheque en blanco extendido" ha perdido su valor. Sin embargo, la confianza en el creador de la "diplomacia viajera", que tantos éxitos diera al Departamento de Estado, es para nosotros, en esta nueva posición de "mandamás" de la NASL, un atisbo de fe en el porvenir del fútbol soccer norteamericano.

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DIRECT DIAL:

November 9, 1978

Dr. Henry Kissinger
CSIS
1800 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006

Dear Dr. Kissinger,

I would like to take this opportunity and congratulate you on your
appointment as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the North American
Soccer League.

May this be the beginning of a new era in American Soccer, to which I
would like to volunteer some of my professional knowledge, as well as the
enthusiasm of a former varsity player.

ES/b1

AMERICANIZED SOCCER

Sir:

The Indiana soccer team has no "secret,"
as you claimed in your article *Hot Foot for
the Hoosiers* (Oct. 23). Hoosier Coach Jerry
Yeagley and others, through their presence
on the NCAA rules committee, have allowed
the repeated substitution of several players
during a game. What they have done, in ef-
fect, is to invent a new game that is foreign

to the rest of the soccer-playing world.

The idea of soccer is that 11 well-condi-
tioned men—with only a couple of substi-
tutions—play 90 minutes of a game of tac-
tics. By allowing seven substitutions, we
Americans have invented a game called "90
miles an hour for 90 minutes" (to quote Coach
Eddie Firmani of the Cosmos), which allows
less talented and less capable players to com-
pete because they can run at you for a short
period and then be replaced by others who
continue to do the same. This new game more
closely resembles lacrosse and ice hockey than
it does soccer.

We aren't doing our young men any fa-
vors by teaching them the soccer that we are
playing in college, because when they com-
pete with the rest of the world they will find
out that they are indeed lacking.

In addition, I beg to differ with St. Louis
Coach Harry Keough's statement that no
team has ever beaten the Billikens three times
in a row in season play. Clemson defeated
St. Louis 2-1 in 1975, 3-1 in 1976 and 3-1
in 1977, all in regular-season play.

I. M. IBRAHIM
Head Soccer Coach
Clemson University
Clemson, S.C.

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October 26, 1978

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
c/o North American Soccer League
1133 Avenue of the Americas - Suite 3500
New York, N. Y. 10036

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

Thank you for your offer to consider a support of our country's youth soccer movement.

It was a distinct pleasure meeting you at Phil Woosnam's reception and we would like to suggest the following opportunities:

1. The next most important event on the international calendar is the FIFA World Youth Tournament for the "Coca-Cola Cup." To take place late August of 1979 in Tokyo, it is the youth's equivalent to the World Cup. FIFA's leadership will be present.

2. The U. S. Youth Team will attempt to qualify for this FIFA event within the CONCACAF group of countries. This will take place in Honduras between November 28 and December 10, 1978.

3. The U. S. Youth Team will be in practice in Tampa, Florida between November 11 and 25. A rousing farewell ceremony prior to departure for Honduras could be organized and publicized.

The Coca-Cola Company, having a long-term commitment to the development of youth soccer worldwide, based on contractual agreements with FIFA and USSF, would be pleased to facilitate any action you wish to consider.

Your reaction to the above opportunities will be appreciated.

JHB:kb

cc: Commissioner Phil Woosnam
USSF President Gene Edwards

WORLD SOCCER, January, 1979

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# Doubts already expressed over Colombia's suitability

WHILE Colombian FA president Alfonso Senior, who was chiefly responsible in getting the 1986 World Cup finals for Colombia, says there is not the slightest doubt that his country will stage the tournament, Colombia's new government, under President Julio Turbay, is not so sure and is currently studying the situation.

Education minister Rodrigo Llorena said recently: "We can not take a hasty decision on the matter, because it is going to cost a lot of money and the benefits are doubtful." He was also worried, like a lot of his countrymen, that the deficit was going to be even bigger if, as seemed likely, Colombia does not get past the first round group.

Colombia has never been a strong soccer country and they have only reached one World Cup final—in 1962, in Chile, when they caused a surprise by holding the Soviet Union 4-4, but were nevertheless eliminated in the first round after losing to Uruguay (2-1) and Yugoslavia (5-1) in the other group games. While Colombian clubs frequently do well in the Libertadores Cup and Deportivo Cali reached the final this year, they, like most other league clubs, are strengthened by foreigners

Another government official, Mike Forego, a former journalist recently put in charge of the National Institute for Youth and Sport (COLDEPORTES) through which government assistance would be channelled, said: "The World Cup doesn't worry me and the government will not renounce staging the tournament for a simple reason—they did not take it on in the first place and it is up to the Colombian FA." This would indicate that the Colombian FA might be left holding the baby without being able to expect the government aid which made this year's tournament in Argentina such a success.

On the credit side is the fact that Colombia has better communications than Argentina and with still eight years to go, they are likely to be much improved. The hotel capacity is also far bigger than in Argentina and the probable venues outside the capital

have bigger populations than those used in Argentina. Stadiums are also likely to require fewer modifications to put them up to standard. Bogotá, Cali, Medellín, Baraquilla and Bucaramanga are the most likely venues, but several other towns with good stadiums have also expressed interest.

"It is estimated that the required improvements would cost around six million dollars if they are done next year and around 12.5 million if work does not start until 1982. One of the stadiums needing most work is that at Bogotá and it could even happen that the country's capital would not become the main centre."

Colombian FA officials anxiously await results of the government study, although there is yet a long time to go. It may also be besides the point at this stage to point out that Colombia, like Argentina, has a terrorist problem. Argentina's strongest terrorist group stated a year before the World Cup that they would not harm the event because "it was a feast of the people". The five active guerrilla groups in Colombia have not yet ventured an opinion on the matter.

## Tournament

Meanwhile, it is understood that both Brazil and the United States are interested in staging the tournament if Colombia backs out. Brazilian soccer officials however are considering the possibility of making it easier for Colombia—and other small countries in the future—to organise the World Cup by presenting a project to FIFA which would permit several small countries to join in its organisation—in this case neighbouring Peru, Venezuela and Ecuador. Only if Colombia really withdraws would Brazil be interested in taking over, they say.

On the other hand, Argentina, wants to organise another world tournament at the suggestion of national team coach Menotti, in 1980. This will probably be for players up to 21 or 23 with the World Cup finals in Spain in view two years later.

CANADA

MINISTER OF STATE
FITNESS AND AMATEUR SPORT

MINISTRE D'ÉTAT
SANTÉ ET SPORT AMATEUR

Ottawa K1A OX6

October 10, 1978.

Dr. Henry Kissinger,
Commissioner,
North American Soccer League,
1133 Avenue off the Americas,
Suite 3500,
New York, New York.
U.S.A. 10036

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

Please accept my sincere personal congratulations on your recent appointment as Commissioner of the North American Soccer League.

Your appointment will certainly aid in the continued growth and improvement in quality of what is becoming one of North America's most popular sports. I must at this same time, however, express my deep concern and surprise about certain statements which have been attributed to you upon your appointment. These are that you aim to "improve the quality of soccer in the United States" and "bring the World Cup to the United States".

As I am sure you are aware, the North American Soccer League is international in nature, and its Canadian teams reflect the very strong and diversified history of soccer in our country. I do trust that these attributed quotes were inaccurate and your goal is truly to improve soccer wherever it is played, and that you will be just as pleased if it is the Canadian, rather than the American, national team which first brings the World Cup to North America.

... 2

OFFICE OF
HENRY A. KISSINGER

May 31, 1979

Dear Mr. Hermann:

As Dr. Kissinger will be out of town a great
deal during the next months, I have taken the
liberty of forwarding a copy of your letter of
May 23 to his attorney, David Ginsburg. I feel
Mr. Ginsburg is best equipped to take up with
Dr. Kissinger the proposal for a change in a
portion of his NASL contract.

I have suggested that Mr. Ginsburg be in touch
with you after he has discussed the matter with
Dr. Kissinger.

Mr. Robert R. Hermann
1708 South Hanley Road
St. Louis, Missouri 63144

ROBERT R. HERMANN

1708 S.O. HANLEY ROAD
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI 63144

May 23, 1979

Dr. Henry Kissinger
Suite 520
1800 K Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20006

Dear Dr. K.,

In behalf of the league I'd like to tell you how apprecia-
tive we are of your association with us as Chairman of
the North American Soccer League. Again this year we
have made excellent progress and are showing increases
in attendance which should be even more pronounced at
the end of the school year.

I wanted to discuss with you a practical problem which
has been pointed out regarding the paragraph in your con-
tract dealing with notification to you of a move by a
present owner to a new city. As your contract now reads,
you have 30 days to exercise your option for the new city
after the owner has negotiated the transfer and/or sale.

Examples of how this might create a problem are:

* If the transfer of a franchise involved a sale of all or part of the stock (as is almost always the case), the prospective purchaser might change his mind when he finds out about the thirty day delay.

* If the thirty day period should come in November/ December - just when the league is finalizing the next year's schedule, this would have to be delayed until the thirty days is up which could possibly cause a hardship to clubs in sale of season tickets, etc.

As the reason for the thirty day time period was to make
certain all the remaining "good" cities weren't sold with-
out your knowledge, I propose the following which would
give you the protection we want you to have and at the
same time simplify the potential problems for the League
and present owners.

MAY 25 1979

Dr. Henry Kissinger

May 23, 1979

We would give you a list of the six largest/best vacant
cities which the league feels are most acceptable and
guarantee that not less than three of them would be avail-
able to you. If at any time there were fewer than three
cities on this list, the language in your present contract
would again prevail.

I really can't see any problem in the forseeable future
as there are at least twelve good cities having no soccer
team at present. However, I feel this portion of your
contract should be rewritten now to forestall potential
difficulties. Let me hear from you as to whether this
is generally agreeable to you and we will draft a more
formal amendment to your contract.

I will look forward to hearing from you.

RRH/df

cc: Steve Brenner

OFFICE OF
HENRY A. KISSINGER

May 31, 1979

Dear David:

Dr. Kissinger is out of town and I am taking
the liberty of forwarding to you a letter
suggesting a change in the wording of his
NASL contract.

As this is way out of my league, could you or
someone from your firm please reply directly
to Mr. Hermann?

Thanks, as always,

David Ginsburg, Esquire
Ginsburg, Feldman and Bress
1700 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Suite 300
Washington, D.C. 20006