Chicago Sting

The Chicago Sting were an American football club from Chicago, Illinois. The club played 1975-1984 in the North American Soccer League, and from 1984 to 1988 in the Major Indoor Soccer League, an indoor soccer league. In 13 years the league membership Stings were twice the Soccer Bowl, the U.S. Championship win.

History

Outdoor team

The club in 1975 by Lee Stern, a Chicago businessman was founded. The name of the club was derived from the crime caper The Sting - from The Sting. The field kicker named the Soldier Field, Comiskey Park and Wrigley Field their homes in 1981, the team won their coach Willy Roy his first of two championships. Overall, you could choose 23 of the 32 games for themselves. As the first of the Central Division, the team qualified for the play- offs where you feel against the New York Cosmos, which were equipped with players like Giorgio Chinaglia, Johan Neeskens and Rick Davis, prevailed and was the Soccer Bowl win. It was the first winning a championship by a Chicago team, regardless of the sport, for 23 years. In 1984, the last year of the league, repeating the success of 1981.

Hall team

1980 Hall team was next to the outdoor team, founded. This was in Chicago Stadium and Rosemont Horizon in its home games. Already in the first season, 1980/81, the Central Division was won. In the play-offs for total American Cup team failed only in the finale. The following year you repeated its success to the division championship, but retired from in the first round of the play -offs. Over the next three years go no further successes. Although you always reached to 1984 playoff games, but different from a year in the first round. In the last three years it always failed to qualify.

Achievements

  • Winning the Northern Division / Atlantic Conference: 1976
  • Win the Central Division: 1981
  • Winning the NASL: 1981
  • Winning the Eastern Division: 1984
  • Winning the Central Division Indoor: 1981, 1982
  • Coach of the Year 1981: Willy Roy

Coach

  • England Bill Foulkes 1975 - 1977
  • United States Willy Roy 1977 - 1986
  • England Malcolm Musgrove 1978
  • Germany Erich Geyer 1986 - 1988
  • United States Gary Hindley 1988

Well-known former players

  • Denmark Jørgen Kristensen
  • England Duncan McKenzie
  • Germany Paul Hahn
  • Germany Horst Blankenburg
  • Germany Dieter Ferner
  • Germany Karl -Heinz Granitza
  • Germany Peter Gruber
  • Germany Ingo Peter
  • Germany Lothar scale
  • Germany Arno Steffenhagen
  • Germany Hans Weiner
  • Netherlands Dick Advocaat
  • Netherlands Wim van Hanegem
  • Poland Robert Gadocha
  • Poland Janusz Kowalik
  • Scotland Jim McCalliog
  • Scotland Derek Spalding
  • Sweden Thomas Sjöberg
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