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'This market is a sleeping giant': How Energy FC coach John Pascarella is building soccer culture in OKC

'This market is a sleeping giant': How Energy FC coach John Pascarella is building soccer culture in OKC

Derek Parker When was a freshman in college, the future he’d envisioned for himself collapsed along with the North American Soccer League.The NASL was the first professional soccer league to find success in the U.S. Its heights saw players such as Pele, John Cruyff and Franz Beckenbauer pass through its ranks — though its lows ended with seven teams folding in 1981 due to revenue issues. The league eventually folded in 1984.With the league’s collapse, Pascarella, a Penn State freshman on a soccer scholarship who’d only ever dreamed of playing professionally in America, had no league to play...

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