Word: asl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American Soccer League's (ASL's) Pennsylvania Stoners, already decimated by injuries, had only about eight healthy bodies left, as gangling Ronnie Ost loped toward the goal during an offensive drill. A pass, a return pass, and Ost turned his head back to watch his teammate's shot. Moments later, Ost dropped to the ground, tenderly gripping his right knee. He'd run straight into the post...
...playing goalie than wandering around the middle of the field; he can't juggle the ball on his feet a thousand times; and evidently he doesn't always look where he's going. But Ron Ost is no longer eligible to play for Harvard because he plays in the ASL. Ron Ost is a good soccer player...
...signing of an amateur contract with the professional Stoners, Ost lost his Harvard eligibility. He gained entrance into a league which may not be the NASL but is still populated by the likes of English second and third division players and Eddie Firmani, former coach of the Cosmos. The ASL is no bush league...
...will be flying to various ASL cities to join the Stoners each weekend when their season begins in the spring. He will be rejoining what he calls "an emotionally tight" team, all but two of whom have gone through the American college system. "You had to watch your step on the team; if you did something wrong, you'd never hear the end of it," Ost says. Naturally enough, he took a lot of abuse, or "stick" as the team called it, for running into the post. One of the more literate members of the team made up a song...
...Pele--no silky smooth movement, no Oscar-winning imitations of a gazelle. No, just good, solid soccer--the kind of play that should see him hitting the post, or just inside of it, with something other than his knee in the upcoming ASL season...