Cosmos shooting for stars with $500 million plan


  • Football
  • Thursday, 24 May 2018

(Reuters) - Once one of the most glamorous names in North American sport, the New York Cosmos are today living on soccer's Skid Row, a fourth division club playing on school grounds left behind, largely unwanted and forgotten.

On April 29, the team that lured soccer royalty like Pele and Franz Beckenbauer opened their National Premier Soccer League season with a 4-0 win over Boston City FC in front of a handful of spectators at Malden Catholic High School.

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