Word: chinaglia
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...still clearly exhibit their grounding in other sports, and the result is a distinctly American style that has both advantages and disadvantages. With superior hand-eye coordination and leaping ability learned in childhood baseball and basketball games, Americans make fine goaltenders, agile and sure-handed around the net. Giorgio Chinaglia, the New York Cosmos high-scoring striker, has an adversary's appreciation of the U.S. talent: "There is a nucleus of goalkeepers that are not good-they're exceptional. They could play in Europe now." And Americans have translated the physical aggressiveness of football into near world-class...
...midfield for the Tulsa Roughnecks. The new American kids do not stand in awe of most of the Europeans. Says 20-year-old Gary Etherington, a Cosmos forward: "I don't see that much difference between us and them, except for the big stars." And Big Star Chinaglia is a fan of the young Americans: "They improve every year...
Early in the second period St. Louis struck again. Taking a pass from Ellen Hart on the left wing, she out-dueled Smith defender Abbie Ellicott for the ball before turning and ramming a shot worthy of Giorgio Chinaglia into the lower right corner...
...spectator sport was really born in 1975 when the Cosmos persuaded Pelé to come out of retirement with a $4.75 million, three-year contract to evangelize Americans for soccer. His arrival brought instant respectability to American soccer and helped lure to the U.S. such international stars as Giorgio Chinaglia and Franz Beckenbauer of the Cosmos and George Best of the Los Angeles Aztecs. Attendance figures soared wherever Pelé and the Cosmos played, and his very presence in a league city was enough to push soccer to the top of local sports pages...
...first half, Chinaglia rose above a crowd in front of the net to head a cornerkick from Tinnion...