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Maccabi Los Angeles Soccer Club
Maccabi Los Angeles' emblem
Full nameMaccabi (Maccabee) Los Angeles Soccer Club
מכבי לוס אנג'לס
Nickname(s)Maccabees
Founded1971 (competitive)
Dissolved1982
GroundJackie Robinson Field
Capacity10,820
LeagueGLASL

Maccabi Los Angeles Soccer Club (Hebrew: מכבי לוס אנג'לס, MAH-KAH-Bee) was an American soccer club based in Los Angeles, California. The team competed professionally in the GLASL, the CONCACAF Champions League (CONCACAF Champions Cup), including appearing in the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup (National Challenge Cup) final seven times in their eleven-year history most notably becoming only one of two teams along with Bethlehem Steel to win the competition five times.[1]

History

Maccabi Los Angeles Soccer Club was formed by a group of Israeli expatriates to serve as a recreational Sunday soccer team, the primary activity of the Maccabee Athletic Club in Los Angeles, California.[2] The team began playing competitively in 1971, with the addition of former Israeli national team players who had recently immigrated to the Los Angeles area. They were Triple Crown winners twice in 1977 and 1978 winning the GLASL, California State Cup and the U.S. Open Cup.They participated in the CONCACAF Champions League (CONCACAF Champions Cup) in 1978 but did not advance.[3]

Maccabi played Bridgeport Vasco da Gama from Connecticut in the 1978 US Open Cup Final at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey in front of a crowd of over 30,000 people. The game was part of a double header with the New York Cosmos and the Tampa Bay Rowdies of the North American Soccer League. Maccabi ceased operations after the 1982 season but Maccabee Athletic Club is still in existence.

Honors

Past rosters

US Open Cup 1973

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
2 DF Germany GER Eric Braeden
3 DF Israel ISR Eli Marmur
8 MF Israel ISR Yarone Schmitman

US Open Cup 1975

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
2 DF Israel ISR Eli Marmur
10 MF Mexico MEX Chon Miranda

US Open Cup 1977

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Argentina ARG Eduardo Chantre
2 DF Israel ISR Eli Marmur
3 DF United States USA Leo Kulinczenko
4 DF Belize BLZ Russell Hulse
8 MF Israel ISR Abraham Cohen
10 MF Mexico MEX Manuel Mena
11 FW England ENG Guy Newman
9 FW Romania ROU Meir Segal

US Open Cup 1978

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Argentina ARG Eduardo Chantre
2 DF Israel ISR Eli Marmur
3 DF United States USA Leo Kulinczenko
4 DF Belize BLZ Russell Hulse
5 DF Israel ISR Joseph Mizrahi
6 MF Israel ISR Abraham Cohen
7 FW El Salvador SLV Toni Moran
8 MF Argentina ARG Ramon Sandounh
9 FW Romania ROU Meir Segal
10 MF Spain ESP Carlos Roveri
11 FW Israel ISR Izhar Mozik
12 FW Israel ISR Benny Binshtock
13 DF United States USA Peter Gonzales

US Open Cup 1980

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Argentina ARG Eduardo Chantre
4 DF Belize BLZ Russell Hulse
9 FW United States USA Ole Mikkelsen
11 FW Trinidad and Tobago TRI Tony Douglas

US Open Cup 1981

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Argentina ARG Eduardo Chantre
4 DF Belize BLZ Russell Hulse
9 FW Trinidad and Tobago TRI Tony Douglas
10 MF Netherlands NED Dan Ben Dror

US Open Cup 1982

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Argentina ARG Eduardo Chantre
9 FW   Tony Douglas
4 DF Belize BLZ Russell Hulse

US Open Cup results

  • 1973 Maccabi Los Angeles 5 vs Cleveland Inter Italian 3
  • 1975 Maccabi Los Angeles 1 vs New York Inter Giuliana 0
  • 1977 Maccabi Los Angeles 5 vs Philadelphia German-Hungarians 1
  • 1978 Maccabi Los Angeles 2 vs Bridgeport Vasco da Gama 0 (OT)
  • 1980 New York Pancyprian-Freedoms 3 vs Maccabi Los Angeles 2
  • 1981 Maccabi Los Angeles 5 vs Brooklyn Dodgers 1
  • 1982 New York Pancyprian-Freedoms 4 vs Maccabi Los Angeles 3 (OT)[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "US Open Cup, National Challenge Cup history: Year-by-year - TheCup.us - Full Coverage of US Open Cup Soccer". thecup.us. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
  2. ^ "The 1971–81 Maccabee Los Angeles Soccer Team". SoCal Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. 1998. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
  3. ^ "The Year in American Soccer - 1978". homepages.sover.net. Retrieved 17 September 2017.


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