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1979 Fort Lauderdale Strikers indoor season

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Fort Lauderdale Strikers
1979 season
OwnerUnited States Elizabeth Robbie
General managerUnited States Beau Rodgers
ManagerEngland Ron Newman
NASL indoorTournament: Fourth place
Top goalscorerSocialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Tibor Gemeri (2 goals)
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The 1979 Fort Lauderdale Strikers season was part of the club's twelfth season in professional soccer.

Background

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This was not the first instance of the Strikers playing indoors. Their first ever match, indoor or out, was an exhibition match played on February 27, 1977, versus their arch-rival, Tampa Bay Rowdies at the Bayfront Center. In January 1978 they played the Washington Diplomats indoors at the D.C. Armory on back-to-back days. The Strikers lost all of three of these matches.

Review

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In January 1979 four NASL teams participated in the Budweiser Indoor Soccer Invitational at the Bayfront Center in St. Petersburg, Florida. The teams were the Dallas Tornado, Ft. Lauderdale Strikers, Tulsa Roughnecks, and the host, Tampa Bay Rowdies. The event was held over two days.[1] The Strikers finished the tournament in fourth place. The team wore a very basic, green and white, adidas uniform for the invitational. It was very similar to the away kit that the West German national team wore during that era, except that the Strikers's numbers on the backs were red and there was no team crest of any kind on the front of the jerseys.[2][3]

Competitions

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NASL indoor regular season

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1979 Budweiser Indoor Soccer Invitational
Team League Record Standings GF GA GD
Dallas Tornado* NASL 2–0 1st place 15 9 +6
Tampa Bay Rowdies NASL 2–0 2nd place (runners-up) 9 4 +5
Tulsa Roughnecks NASL 0–2 3rd place 7 11 -4
Fort Lauderdale Strikers NASL 0–2 4th place 6 13 -7

* Dallas wins title on goal differential

Results summaries

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Session 1: January 27, 1979

7:00 PM EST Dallas Tornado 8–7 Tulsa Roughnecks Attendance: 6,342
8:30 PM EST Tampa Bay Rowdies 6–4 Fort Lauderdale Strikers

Session 2: January 28, 1979[4]

6:00 PM EST Dallas Tornado 7–2 Fort Lauderdale Strikers Attendance: 6,338
7:30 PM EST Tampa Bay Rowdies 3–0 Tulsa Roughnecks

Match reports

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January 27, 1979 1 Tampa Bay Rowdies 6–4 Fort Lauderdale Strikers St. Petersburg, Florida
8:30 PM Marsh 9:16'
Mirandinha 11:50' (McLeod)
Mirandinha 20:44' (Maurer)
Maurer 26:38' (Marsh)
Wegerle 27:43' (Marsh)
Quraishi 28:25' (Mirandinha)
Report 1
Report 2
Njie 20:33' (Wiggemansen)
Gemeri 24:37'
Njie 30:21' (Wiggemansen)
Vaninger 34:13'
Stadium: Bayfront Center
Attendance: 6,342
January 28, 1979 2 Dallas Tornado 7–2 Fort Lauderdale Strikers St. Petersburg, Florida
6:00 PM Ryan 9:38' (Haaskivi)
Collins 16:28' (Haaskivi)
Haaskivi 23:58' (Pecher)
Ryan 28:54' (Haaskivi)
Ryan 38:07' (Waddell)
Haaskivi 41:04'
Ryan 43:36'
Report on p. 2-C Wiggemansen 14:36' (Jones),
Gemeri 21:01' (Hudson)
Stadium: Bayfront Center
Attendance: 6,338

Statistics

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Transfers

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Strikers' indoor matches prior to 1979

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February 27, 1977 1 Tampa Bay Rowdies 9–8 Fort Lauderdale Strikers St. Petersburg, Florida
8:00 p.m. (EST) Lindsay 4:21' (Wegerle)
Smethurst 33:13'
Smethurst 34:04' (Alston)
Quraishi 41:34' (Smethurst)
Smethurst 41:57' (Wegerle)
Wegerle 48:29'
Smethurst 49:30' (Wegerle)
Wegerle 50:41'
Alston 51:47' (Smethurst)
Report Mulroy 12:07' (Nanchoff, Sharp)
Sharp 12:27'
Nanchoff 26:40' (Chadwick)
Ceballos 44:20' (Sharp)
Chadwick 47:40' (Hamlyn, Sharp)
Sharp 50:41'
Sharp 58:04'
Hamlyn 59:57'
Stadium: Bayfront Center
Attendance: 5,016
Referee: Sam Hornich
January 7, 1978 2 Washington Diplomats 9–2 Fort Lauderdale Strikers Washington, D.C.
8:00 p.m. (EST) Report Fearnley 14:01' (Nanchoff)
Proctor (Bodonczy)
Stadium: D.C. Armory
Attendance: 2,384
January 8, 1978 3 Washington Diplomats 8–5 Fort Lauderdale Strikers Washington, D.C.
3:00 p.m. (EST) Garber , ,
Welch
Darrell
Mishalow
Borozzi
Denkowski
Report Vaninger ,
Hamlyn
Aguirre
Nanchoff
Stadium: D.C. Armory
Attendance: 2,163

References

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  1. ^ "The Evening Independent - Google News Archive Search".
  2. ^ 2013 NASL strikers
  3. ^ NASL 2013 Rowdies
  4. ^ "Rowdies Defeat Strikers". Lakeland Ledger. January 28, 1979. p. 1C. Retrieved October 24, 2016 – via Google News Archive Search.