European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 25, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday september 25, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 11 unblinking look at the Cosmos i read with interest the article by North american soccer league commissioner Phil Woosnam the so called missionary on ithe subject of . Soccer. With even More interest did i watch the game Between the Munchen soccer club . Bayern is. The . Cosmos on sept. 12. Needless to say there was no relation Between the . Champion Cosmos and the Bayern team which presently ranks 4th on the German soccer league s charts. The Bayern team actually playing As a team seemingly considered the game As Good training. The stars from the Cosmos obviously everyone of them out there hot to practice teamwork were easily de meated7-l. T i Don t know where your reporter is com ing from maybe he just watched the game on television but there were no indications whatsoever that Bayern was still smarting Over emperor Franz Becken Bauer s defection to new York s w the matter of fact is that until the game started the Cosmos had been considered to be a fairly hard match for Bayern due to . Press reports and the fact that the Cosmos were the . Soccer champions. Matter of fact is also that 79,000 Bayern and a number of Cosmos fans came to the sold out olympic stadium hoping to see Beckenbauer play the world s Best soc cer that he was known to play and possibly Lead the Cosmos to a win Over Bayern. In Stead Franz was placed in a position other than the libero position in which he per forms without equal and it appeared obvious that his teammates almost completely ignored him. Besides that and your article already stated it correctly the Cosmos players were stars individually but no real team work was Ever exhibited. If missionary Woosnam really wants to bring . Soccer to a world level or even talk about world cup ambitions he has a Heck of a lot of work ahead of him. . Soccer does need some More attention but Woosnam should keep the soccer leagues european edition col. Billy e. Spangler Usa editor in chief it. Col. . Taylor Usan Deputy editor in chief Mert Proctor managing editor Elmer d. Frank production manager henrys. Epstein circulation manager this newspaper is an authorized unofficial publication for . Armed forces overseas. The stars and stripes is published in conjunction with the armed forces information program of the department of defense. Contents of the stars and stripes Are not necessarily the official View of the . Government the department of defense or the . European command. The appearance of displays in this newspaper concerning commercial publications does not constitute an endorsement by the department of de sense including the military departments. Military address the stars and stripes Apo 09175. International mail the stars and stripes Postrach 11 10 34, d-4100 Darmstadt 11, Germany. Tel Griesheim c prefix 06155 811
