Budweiser Indoor Soccer Invitational | |
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Tournament details | |
Dates | January 27, 1979 – January 28, 1979 |
Teams | 4 |
Final positions | |
Champions | Dallas Tornado (2nd title) |
Runners-up | Tampa Bay Rowdies |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 4 |
Goals scored | 42 (10.5 per match) |
Attendance | 12,680 (3,170 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | Jim Ryan (7 goals) |
The 1979 NASL Budweiser Indoor Soccer Invitational was a four-team indoor soccer tournament held at the Bayfront Center in St. Petersburg, Florida on the final weekend of January 1979. [1] [2]
Four teams North American Soccer League teams participated in the two-day event; the Dallas Tornado, the Fort Lauderdale Strikers, the Tampa Bay Rowdies, and the Tulsa Roughnecks. Matches were 45 minutes long and divided into three 15-minute periods with an intermission between each. Each session consisted of two games (i.e. a doubleheader). Nearly 12,700 people attended the two sessions. Dallas and Tampa Bay each won both of their matches, but Dallas Tornado were crowned champions based on a greater goal differential. Dallas forward Jim Ryan lead the invitational in scoring with 7 goals. The tournament's final match saw goalkeeper Winston DuBose of Tampa Bay become only the second NASL goalie to record a rare indoor shut-out. [3] [4] Dallas goalkeeper Ken Cooper had accomplished the feat on two previous occasions. [5]
These were not the only indoor games played that winter. With a fully sanctioned season of NASL indoor soccer still eleven months away, [6] NASL teams were free to schedule their own games at that time. Tampa Bay, for example played three other indoor matches. By contrast, Fort Lauderdale scheduled only the two games of the invitational. [2] The competing Major Indoor Soccer League had already begun their first season in December 1978.
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 [7]
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 | |
January 27, 1979Match 1 | Dallas Tornado | 8–7 | Tulsa Roughnecks | St. Petersburg, Florida |
7:00 PM | Ryan 1:46' (Haaskivi) Collins 6:34' (Haaskivi) Ley 8:16' Ryan 11:47' Ryan 12:34' (Ley) Haaskivi 16:46' Haaskivi 37:56' (Ryan) Ley 43:56' | Report 1 Report 2 | Mitchell 1:53' (Earle) Sautter 12:43' (Ralbovsky) Danaeifard 13:24' Earle 17:18' (Danaeifard) Abrahams 18:23' (Danaeifard) Abrahams 32:14' (Earle) Ralbovsky 37:24' | Stadium: Bayfront Center Attendance: 6,342 |
January 27, 1979Match 2 | Tampa Bay Rowdies | 6–4 | Fort Lauderdale Strikers | St. Petersburg, Florida |
8:30 PM | Marsh 9:16' Mirandinha 11:50' (McLeod) Mirandinha 20:44' (Maurer) Maurer 26:38' (Marsh) Wegerle 27:43' (Marsh) Quraishi 28:25' (Mirandinha) | Report 1 Report 2 | Njie 20:33' (Wiggemansen) Gemeri 24:37' Njie 30:21' (Wiggemansen) Vaninger 34:13' | Stadium: Bayfront Center Attendance: 6,342 |
January 28, 1979Match 1 | Dallas Tornado | 7–2 | Fort Lauderdale Strikers | St. Petersburg, Florida |
6:00 PM | Ryan 9:38' (Haaskivi) Collins 16:28' (Haaskivi) Haaskivi 23:58' (Pecher) Ryan 28:54' (Haaskivi) Ryan 38:07' (Weddell) Haaskivi 41:04' Ryan 43:38' | Report on p. 2-C | Wiggemansen 14:36' (Jones) Gemeri 21:01' (Hudson) | Stadium: Bayfront Center Attendance: 6,338 |
January 28, 1979Match 2 | Tampa Bay Rowdies | 3–0 | Tulsa Roughnecks | St. Petersburg, Florida |
7:30 PM | Marsh 1:49' (Wegerle) Mirandinha 17:50' (Marsh) Mirandinha 31:47' | Report on p. 2-C | none | Stadium: Bayfront Center Attendance: 6,338 |
GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, GD = Goal Differential
1979 Budweiser Indoor Soccer Invitational | ||||||
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Team | League | Record | GF | GA | GD | Position |
Dallas Tornado* | NASL | 2–0 | 15 | 9 | +6 | 1st place |
Tampa Bay Rowdies | NASL | 2–0 | 9 | 4 | +5 | 2nd place (Runners-up) |
Tulsa Roughnecks | NASL | 0–2 | 7 | 11 | –4 | 3rd place |
Fort Lauderdale Strikers | NASL | 0–2 | 6 | 13 | –7 | 4th place |
*Dallas wins title on goal differential
Goals (worth 2 points), Assists (worth 1 point)
Leading Scorers | Goals | Assists | Points |
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Jimmy Ryan (Dallas) | 7 | 1 | 15 |
Kai Haaskivi (Dallas) | 4 | 5 | 13 |
Mirandinha (Tampa Bay) | 4 | 1 | 9 |
Rodney Marsh (Tampa Bay) | 2 | 3 | 7 |
George Ley (Dallas) | 2 | 1 | 5 |
Steve Earle (Tulsa) | 1 | 3 | 5 |
Laurie Abrahams (Tulsa) | 2 | 0 | 4 |
Chris Collins (Dallas) | 2 | 0 | 4 |
Tibor Gemeri (Ft Lauderdale) | 2 | 0 | 4 |
Al Njie (Ft Lauderdale) | 2 | 0 | 4 |
Roy Wiggemansen (Ft Lauderdale) | 1 | 2 | 4 |
GA = Goals Against, GAA = Goals Against Average, SV = Saves, SF = Shots Faced, % = Save Percentage
Leading Goalkeepers | Minutes | GA | GAA | SV | SF | % | Won | Lost |
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Winston DuBose (Tampa Bay) | 90 | 4 | 2.00 | 14 | 18 | .778 | 2 | 0 |
Ken Cooper (Dallas) | 45 | 2 | 2.00 | 6 | 8 | .750 | 1 | 0 |
Colin Boulton (Tulsa) | 90 | 11 | 5.50 | 13 | 24 | .542 | 0 | 2 |
Steve Zerhusen (Ft. Lauderdale) | 90 | 13 | 6.50 | 22 | 35 | .629 | 0 | 2 |
Billy Phillips (Dallas) | 45 | 7 | 7.00 | 10 | 17 | .588 | 1 | 0 |
In addition to the tournament itself, several NASL teams participated in international indoor friendlies, and tune-ups for both the tournament and 1979 outdoor season. Dallas and Houston played twice in December 1978. [2] [8] The Rowdies–Hurricane match on January 25 was played using the MISL-size goals, timing and ball, as the arena was already set up for the Hurricane's alter ego, the MISL's Houston Summit. [9] As part of a six-match, NASL tour in February, perennial Soviet powerhouse FC Dynamo Moscow scheduled three indoor games. [10] [11]
December 19781 | Houston Hurricane | 7–8 | Dallas Tornado | Houston, Texas |
Garcia | Stadium: The Summit |
December 19, 19782 | Houston Hurricane | 3–7 | Dallas Tornado | Houston, Texas |
Report | Garcia , , | Stadium: The Summit |
January 25, 19793 (MISL rules) | Houston Hurricane | 4–6 | Tampa Bay Rowdies | Houston, Texas |
8:00 PM (CST) | Vaccaro 15:17' (O'Sullivan) Russell 18:26' Russell 34:57' (Marasco) Vasquez 48:57' (Stremlau) | Report on p. 1C Report B | Wegerle 00:44' (Marsh) Van der Beck 24:28' Marsh 24:51' (Connell) Wegerle 31:02' Connell 44:37' Wegerle 59:46' (DuBose) | Stadium: The Summit Attendance: 2,743 |
February 2, 19794 | Tampa Bay Rowdies | 6–15 | Houston Hurricane | St. Petersburg, Florida |
Wegerle 00:17' McLeod 25:26' Marsh 28:12' Mirandinha 31:48' (Marsh) McLeod 43:44' (Quraishi) Quraishi 54:38' (McLeod) | Report A Report on p. 10C | Jump 3:12' (Stremlau) Anderson 8:04' (Haaskivi) Stremlau 9:40' (Anderson) Jump 12:07' (Lindsay) Lindsay 18:14' (Megaloudis) Lindsay 20:38' (Jump) Haaskivi 27:51' Anderson 29:03' (Megaloudis) Jump 33:33' (Stremlau) Lindsay 33:50' Charbonneau 34:55' (Haaskivi) Anderson 41:14', Jump' Maurer, (T.B.) 49:12' (o.g.) Anderson 35:25' (Megaloudis) Anderson 59:19' (Megaloudis) | Stadium: Bayfront Center Attendance: 6,002 |
February 2, 19795 | Tulsa Roughnecks | 6–4 | Chicago Sting | Wichita, Kansas |
Report | Stadium: Britt Brown Arena |
February 13, 19796 Int'l friendly | Tulsa Roughnecks | 3–10 | FC Dynamo Moscow | Tulsa, Oklahoma |
7:30 (CST) | Abrahams Earle Sautter | Report 1 Report 2 Report 3 | Yakubik , , Reznik , | Stadium: Tulsa Assembly Center Attendance: 6,166 [12] [13] |
February 19, 19797 Int'l friendly | Tampa Bay Rowdies | 1–8 | FC Dynamo Moscow | St. Petersburg, Florida |
Kist 25:32' | Report on p. 5C | Gershkovich 1:49' Lovchev 4:43' (Gershkovich) Latysh 12:51' Yakubik 15:47' (Maksimenkov) Latysh 18:29' Reznik 35:25' (Latysh) Reznik 46:36' (Latysh) Maksimenkov 56:00' (Gershkovich) | Stadium: Bayfront Center Attendance: 6,040 |
February 25, 19798 Int'l friendly | Oakland Stompers | Canceled | FC Dynamo Moscow | Oakland, California |
Cancelled: Team sold on Feb 19, moved to Edmonton on Feb 22. | Report | Stadium: Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena | ||
Note: NASL approves sale and move to Edmonton |
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