Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos

While professional soccer is still struggling to find a firm foothold in the United States, in the 1970s the North American Soccer League marked the brave first attempt to introduce the game to American sports fans. While most teams had only limited success at best, one did manage to break through ...more

Released in conjunction with a book of the same name by Gavin Newsham, Once in a Lifetime is an enjoyable and brisk documentary that charts the rise and fall of the National American Soccer League in the United States through the briefly popular New York Cosmos. Like most success stories, how the team rose to prominence is more interesting than the litany of laurels garnered once they got there. Professional sports are such big business today, it's rare that we ever contemplate how a league gets ...more