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In 1971, Warner Brothers bought a local football team, the New York Cosmos. In 1975 the club signed a three-year deal with Pele, the greatest player the game had ever known. More big name signings would follow: the German superstar Franz Beckenbauer, the charismatic Italian striker Giorgio Chinaglia and Brazil's 1970 World Cup winning captain, Carlos Alberto. Almost overnight, the Cosmos became the hottest ticket in town. Celebrities like Robert Redford, Mick Jagger, Barbara Streisand and Steven Spielberg attended games. Cosmos players were mainstays of the hedonistic club scene at Studio 54. Set against the backdrop of a city on the edge, Once In A Lifetime is much more than a football book. It is a vivid evocation of the mania that surrounded the Cosmos at the height of their powers in 1977 and the explosion in new forms of popular culture, the debauchery of Studio 54 and the razzmatazz and conspicuous expenditure that surrounded them. It is a story that embraces millionaires, superstars, gangsters, groupies, glamour, power struggles, alcoholic excess, drugs, and full-on fistfights. It also has some of the greatest football players ever to grace the game.
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GAVIN NEWSHAM is a journalist and writer based in Brighton. He is currently a Contributing Editor at Maxim, the world's biggest-selling men's life style magazine and is a regular contributor to the Observer's Sport Monthly magazine. Previously, he has been the Senior Writer at the groundbreaking football magazine 90 Minutes and the Chief Features writer on the multi-award winning FHM magazine. His first book, a biography of the golfer John Daly, Letting The Big Dog Eat, met with widespread critical acclaim on its release in June 2003.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Having spent alot of time in New York during the mid-Seventies I was really excited when a friend told me about this book. I went to see a couple of Cosmos games and this book really captures the feeling of the City at the time and the boom-bust attitude of the team's owner and many of the players he recruited. He wanted the best and got the best. Including Dennis Tueart. This book is really well researched and a thoroughly entertaining read. It also contains many pictures which made my memories of that time come flooding back. So thanks for that.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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If you like football, clubbing, New York, tales of Pele, Beckenbauer etc this is the book for you. Author Gavin Newsham has done a great job of recreating those few years in the 1970s when America finally realised what football was all about; and when the cream of European and South American football, imported by the Cosmos, realised what New York was all about.
It's a great read.
It's a great read.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Ask any casual football fan about New York Cosmos and they won't get much further than Pele. This book is a fantastic soap opera of sporting shenanigans and political intrigue; anyone with the merest passing interest will find themselves enthralled. It said in one of the papers that Pele wanted too much money to get involved in the project (there's also a film of the same name which I haven't seen). More fool him for writing himself out of this fascinating piece of sporting history.
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A Fine, Fine Book
It would be easy to dismiss this book, as I note one reviewer has.
But for me Newsham at the very least produces the first draft of history on an amazing story; and at... Read more
But for me Newsham at the very least produces the first draft of history on an amazing story; and at... Read more
Published on 27 May 2010 by J. O'Donoghue
A waste of a great story
It should have been a back of the net certainty. The story of how football (I won't call it soccer, I won't I won't I WON'T) took off big in the US in the 1970s and how the New... Read more
Published on 21 Oct 2009 by A. Warmington
Football revolution ????
The New York Cosmos, their rapid rise to greatness and equally abrupt disintegration, is a fascinating detour down football's history. Read more
Published on 30 Sep 2008 by DDH255
Is the premiership the next cosmos
Excellent and well written.
Is Chelsea the new Cosmos? overspending and paying exhorbitant wages, which then the other teams try to follow like lambs to the slaughter. Read more
Is Chelsea the new Cosmos? overspending and paying exhorbitant wages, which then the other teams try to follow like lambs to the slaughter. Read more
Published on 6 Sep 2006 by Dk Roche
The inner workings of a team from another planet
There are plenty of football books out there that simply rely on facts and readers memories to paint a picture of a successful or memorable period in the history of a club. Read more
Published on 29 May 2006 by Hank Jackson
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