How a New York schoolteacher ended up on a soccer team with Pelé — and got fired for a nude photo shoot

Fuente: New York Post

The New York Cosmos soccer team was going nowhere fast. A disparate assembly of part-timers, students and foreigners, they played their games in the North American Soccer League (NASL) at Downing Stadium, a crumbling wreck of a venue under the Triborough Bridge at Randall’s Island. Then things changed overnight with the decision to sign Brazilian soccer legend Pelé in 1975, made by charismatic chairman Steve Ross and the club’s new owners, Warner Communications, which saw the team’s fortunes change overnight.