Maccabi Los Angeles

Maccabi Los Angeles Soccer Club
Full name Maccabi (Maccabee) Los Angeles Soccer Club
מכבי לוס אנג'לס
Nickname(s) Maccabees
Founded 1971 (competitive)
Dissolved 1982
Stadium Jackie Robinson Stadium
Ground Capacity 1,820
League National Soccer League

Maccabi Los Angeles Soccer Club (Hebrew: מכבי לוס אנג'לס‎‎, MAH-KAH-Bee) was a semi-professional American soccer club based in Los Angeles, California. The team played at Jackie Robinson Stadium located in the West Los Angeles area. The team competed in the National Soccer League and other National soccer competitions, including appearing in the National Challenge Cup (US Open Cup) final seven times in their eleven-year history most notably becoming only one of two teams along with Bethlehem Steel to win the competition five times.[1]

History

Maccabi Los Angeles Soccer Club was formed by a group of Israeli expatriates to serve as a recreational Sunday soccer team, the primary activity of the Maccabee Athletic Club in Los Angeles, California.[2] The team began playing competitively in 1971, with the addition of former Israeli national team players who had recently immigrated to the Los Angeles area. They were Triple Crown winners twice in 1977 and 1978 winning the National Soccer League ,California State Cup and the National Challenge Cup. Maccabi played Bridgeport Vasco da Gama from Connecticut in the 1978 National Challenge Cup Final at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey in front of a crowd of over 30,000 people. The game was part of a double header with the New York Cosmos and the Tampa Bay Rowdies of the North American Soccer League. Maccabi ceased operations after the 1982 season but Maccabee Athletic Club is still in existence to this day.

Honors

Past Rosters

National Challenge Cup 1973

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
2 Germany DF Eric Braeden
3 Israel DF Eli Marmur
8 Israel MF Yarone Schmitman

National Challenge Cup 1975

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
2 Israel DF Eli Marmur
10 Mexico MF Chon Miranda

National Challenge Cup 1977

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 Argentina GK Eduardo Chantre
2 Israel DF Eli Marmur
3 United States DF Leo Kulinczenko
4 Belize DF Russell Hulse
8 Israel MF Abraham Cohen
10 Mexico MF Manuel Mena
11 England FW Guy Newman
9 Romania FW Meir Segal

National Challenge Cup 1978

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 Argentina GK Eduardo Chantre
2 Israel DF Eli Marmur
3 United States DF Leo Kulinczenko
4 Belize DF Russell Hulse
5 Israel DF Joseph Mizrahi
6 Israel MF Abraham Cohen
7 El Salvador FW Toni Moran
8 Argentina MF Ramon Sandounh
9 Romania FW Meir Segal
10 Spain MF Carlos Roveri
11 Israel FW Izhar Mozik
12 Israel FW Benny Binshtock
13 United States DF Peter Gonzales

National Challenge Cup 1980

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 Argentina GK Eduardo Chantre
4 Belize DF Russell Hulse
9 United States FW Ole Mikkelsen
11 Trinidad and Tobago FW Tony Douglas

National Challenge Cup 1981

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 Argentina GK Eduardo Chantre
4 Belize DF Russell Hulse
9 Trinidad and Tobago FW Tony Douglas
10 Netherlands MF Dan Ben Dror

National Challenge Cup 1982

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 Argentina GK Eduardo Chantre
9 FW Tony Douglas
4 Belize DF Russell Hulse

National Challenge Cup Results

References

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  2. ↑ "The 1971–81 Maccabee Los Angeles Soccer Team". SoCal Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. 1998. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
  3. ↑


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