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Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos

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Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos (2006)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos is an adoring, disco-accompanied, bright-lighted look back at a brief moment when soccer was popular in the States. [7 July 2006]

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