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
Ground Jackie Robinson Field
Capacity 10,820
League GLASL

Maccabi Los Angeles Soccer Club (Hebrew: מכבי לוס אנג'לס‎, MAH-KAH-Bee) was an American soccer club based in Los Angeles, California. The team competed professionally in the GLASL, the CONCACAF Champions League (CONCACAF Champions Cup), including appearing in the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup (National Challenge 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 GLASL, California State Cup and the U.S. Open Cup.They participated in the CONCACAF Champions League (CONCACAF Champions Cup) in 1978 but did not advance.[3]

Maccabi played Bridgeport Vasco da Gama from Connecticut in the 1978 US Open 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.

Honors

Past rosters

US Open 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

US Open 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

US Open 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

US Open 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

US Open 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

US Open 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

US Open 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

US Open Cup results

  • 1973 Maccabi Los Angeles 5 vs Cleveland Inter Italian 3
  • 1975 Maccabi Los Angeles 1 vs New York Inter Giuliana 0
  • 1977 Maccabi Los Angeles 5 vs Philadelphia German-Hungarians 1
  • 1978 Maccabi Los Angeles 2 vs Bridgeport Vasco da Gama 0 (OT)
  • 1980 New York Pancyprian-Freedoms 3 vs Maccabi Los Angeles 2
  • 1981 Maccabi Los Angeles 5 vs Brooklyn Dodgers 1
  • 1982 New York Pancyprian-Freedoms 4 vs Maccabi Los Angeles 3 (OT)[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "US Open Cup, National Challenge Cup history: Year-by-year - TheCup.us - Full Coverage of US Open Cup Soccer". thecup.us. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
  2. ↑ "The 1971–81 Maccabee Los Angeles Soccer Team". SoCal Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. 1998. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
  3. ↑ "The Year in American Soccer - 1978". homepages.sover.net. Retrieved 17 September 2017.


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