Also at the peak NASL, crowds were often 50,000 or more particularly when he was playing…not quite the Maracanã but soccer was more popular in the US than the p

Also at the peak NASL, crowds were often 50,000 or more particularly when he was playing…not quite the Maracanã but soccer was more popular in the US than the popular sports narrative tends to report. Of course only a few years after Pele, I watched the Diplomats play home games in a high school stadium.