1979 Fort Lauderdale Strikers indoor season
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The 1979 Fort Lauderdale Strikers season was part of the club's twelfth season in professional soccer.
Background
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]NASL indoor regular season
[edit]1979 Budweiser Indoor Soccer Invitational | ||||||
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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
[edit]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
[edit]January 27, 1979 1 | Tampa Bay Rowdies | 6–4 | Fort Lauderdale Strikers | St. Petersburg, Florida |
8:30 PM | Marsh ![]() Mirandinha ![]() Mirandinha ![]() Maurer ![]() Wegerle ![]() Quraishi ![]() |
Report 1 Report 2 |
Njie ![]() Gemeri ![]() Njie ![]() Vaninger ![]() |
Stadium: Bayfront Center Attendance: 6,342 |
January 28, 1979 2 | Dallas Tornado | 7–2 | Fort Lauderdale Strikers | St. Petersburg, Florida |
6:00 PM | Ryan ![]() Collins ![]() Haaskivi ![]() Ryan ![]() Ryan ![]() Haaskivi ![]() Ryan ![]() |
Report on p. 2-C | Wiggemansen ![]() ![]() Gemeri ![]() |
Stadium: Bayfront Center Attendance: 6,338 |
Statistics
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Transfers
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Strikers' indoor matches prior to 1979
[edit]February 27, 1977 1 | Tampa Bay Rowdies | 9–8 | Fort Lauderdale Strikers | St. Petersburg, Florida |
8:00 p.m. (EST) | Lindsay ![]() Smethurst ![]() Smethurst ![]() Quraishi ![]() Smethurst ![]() Wegerle ![]() Smethurst ![]() Wegerle ![]() Alston ![]() |
Report | Mulroy ![]() Sharp ![]() Nanchoff ![]() Ceballos ![]() Chadwick ![]() Sharp ![]() Sharp ![]() Hamlyn ![]() |
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 ![]() Proctor ![]() |
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
[edit]- ^ "The Evening Independent - Google News Archive Search".
- ^ 2013 NASL strikers
- ^ NASL 2013 Rowdies
- ^ "Rowdies Defeat Strikers". Lakeland Ledger. January 28, 1979. p. 1C. Retrieved October 24, 2016 – via Google News Archive Search.