1979 Fort Lauderdale Strikers indoor season
The 1979 Fort Lauderdale Strikers season was part of the club's twelfth season in professional soccer.
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NASL indoor | Tournament: Fourth place | |
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Background
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
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
NASL indoor regular season
Budweiser Indoor Soccer Invitational
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
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
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
Transfers
Strikers' indoor matches prior to 1979
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
- https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rsEwAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3VgDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6654,3317860&dq=rowdies+had+to+do+more&hl=en
- http://www.nasljerseys.com/images/2013Images/2013NASL/Strikers/Strikers%2078-79%20Indoor%20Road%20Back%20Tony%20Whelan,%20Rowdies.jpg
- http://www.nasljerseys.com/images/2013Images/2013NASL/Rowdies/Rowdies%2078-79%20Indoor%20Home%20Back%20Tommy%20Maurer,%20STrikers.jpg
- "Rowdies Defeat Strikers". Lakeland Ledger. January 28, 1979. p. 1C. Retrieved October 24, 2016 – via Google News Archive Search.