The Atoms opened their inaugural season in relative anonymity. Along the way to the NASL championship, they showed American fans will pay to watch Americans play soccer.
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Something better beginning
Our series commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Atoms historic inaugural season NASL championship continues with a look at how Philadelphia ended up with its first NASL franchise.
Flashback: Philly in the 1973 NASL playoffs
As the second-year Philadelphia Union prepare for their first MLS playoff appearance, we take a look back at how the Philadelphia Atoms fared in the 1973 NASL playoffs in their inaugural year.
Great Philly soccer teams: Philadelphia Atoms, part II
This concludes the two-part “Great Philly soccer teams: Philadelphia Atoms.” You can read Part I here. Before Atoms coach Al Miller took the young team to England to train and to scout for some British players to fill out the roster, back in Philadelphia, Atoms general manager Bob Ehlinger’s marketing […]
Great Philly soccer teams: Philadelphia Atoms, part I
The Philadelphia Atoms joined the NASL as an expansion team in 1973. They were the first expansion team to win a championship in its first year in any American professional sport. That they accomplished this with a squad managed by an American coach that was largely made up of Americans […]