DALLAS TORNADO

Updated 05-May-2020.

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BBC World Service – World Football, The Adventures of the Dallas Tornado: The Dallas Tornado players reunite to remember an incredible World tour in 1967-68

The forgotten story of … Dallas Tornado’s 1967-68 world tour | Neil Jones: Neil Jones: Dallas’ journey saw them cheat death at the hands of Greek-Cypriot terrorists, visit Vietnam amid war and survive an on-pitch riot in Singapore. The football must have felt like a sideshow

My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: the Dallas Tornado was a soccer team based in Dallas that played in the north american soccer league (NASL) from 1967 to 1981 . of the twelve teams that comprised the US in 1967, the franchise played the longest– the team that played as the Dallas Tornado were Dundee United of the Scottish Football League . the following season when the USA merged with the NPSL, owners Lamar Hunt and Bill McNutt had to build Kap was recruited from Toronto, Canada, where he relocated after the 1956 Revolution . he traveled throughout Europe to form the new Dallas Tornado, hiring young players from England to Turkey . the fledgling team played 45 games the tour gave the new Dallas Tornado team an international face at a time when American soccer was relatively unknown . the gallant effort resulted in a record of 10 wins, nine draws and 26 defeats . following the the Tornado came in tied for third in the Cup with a 2–4–2 record . for the second half of the 1969 season, the teams returned to their normal rosters . Fortunes improved for the club as they league scoring champion Carlos Metidieri ends best-of-three semifinal 2–1 . three days later Dallas evened the series at one game each with a 3–1 regulation win . four days after that, Dallas Dallas had played 537 minutes of football (3 minutes short of six games) in 13 days time . the face of the team was Kyle Rote, Jr., son of former New York Giants wide receiver . in 1973, Rot the Tornado sold Rote Jr. at the end of the 1978 season to the Houston Hurricane for $250,000. a drop in attendance contributed to the demise of the club in 1981 . after the 1981 season Hunt and McNutt Dallas won both of its matches, 2–1 and 3–0, and the title . Dallas hosted their region at the Fair Park Coliseum and won the group . the Tornado rebounded to win the 3r in 1979 the Tornado joined the Tulsa Roughnecks, Ft. Lauderdale Strikers and host Tampa Bay Rowdies . Dallas participated in only one full NASL indoor season, 1980–81, before folding