1979 Fort Lauderdale Strikers indoor season

Fort Lauderdale Strikers
1979 season
Owner United States Elizabeth Robbie
General Manager United States Beau Rodgers
Manager England Ron Newman
NASL indoor Tournament: Fourth place
Top goalscorer Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Tibor Gemeri (2 goals)
Away colors
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The 1979 Fort Lauderdale Strikers season was part of the club's twelfth season in professional soccer.

Background

This was not the first instance of the Strikers playing indoors. Their first ever match, indoor or out, was an exhibition match played on February 27, 1977 versus their arch-rival, Tampa Bay Rowdies at the Bayfront Center. In January 1978 they played the Washington Diplomats indoors at the D.C. Armory on back-to-back days. The Strikers lost all of three of these matches.

Review

In January 1979 four NASL teams participated in the Budweiser Indoor Soccer Invitational at the Bayfront Center in St. Petersburg, Florida. The teams were the Dallas Tornado, Ft. Lauderdale Strikers, Tulsa Roughnecks, and the host, Tampa Bay Rowdies. The event was held over two days.[1] The Strikers finished the tournament in fourth place. The team wore a very basic, green and white, adidas uniform for the invitational. It was very similar to the away kit that the West German national team wore during that era, except that the Strikers's numbers on the backs were red and there was no team crest of any kind on the front of the jerseys.[2][3]

Competitions

Budweiser Indoor Soccer Invitational

1979 Budweiser Indoor Soccer Invitational
Team League Record Standings GF GA GD
Dallas Tornado* NASL 2–0 1st place 15 9 +6
Tampa Bay Rowdies NASL 2–0 2nd place (Runners-up) 9 4 +5
Tulsa Roughnecks NASL 0–2 3rd place 7 11 -4
Fort Lauderdale Strikers NASL 0–2 4th place 6 13 -7

* Dallas wins title on goal differential

Results summaries

Session 1: January 27, 1979

7:00 PM EST Dallas Tornado 8–7 Tulsa Roughnecks Attendance: 6,342
8:30 PM EST Tampa Bay Rowdies 6–4 Fort Lauderdale Strikers

Session 2: January 28, 1979[4]

6:00 PM EST Dallas Tornado 7–2 Fort Lauderdale Strikers Attendance: 6,338
7:30 PM EST Tampa Bay Rowdies 3–0 Tulsa Roughnecks

Match reports

Strikers' indoor matches prior to 1979

References

  1. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rsEwAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3VgDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6654,3317860&dq=rowdies+had+to+do+more&hl=en
  2. ↑ http://www.nasljerseys.com/images/2013Images/2013NASL/Strikers/Strikers%2078-79%20Indoor%20Road%20Back%20Tony%20Whelan,%20Rowdies.jpg
  3. ↑ http://www.nasljerseys.com/images/2013Images/2013NASL/Rowdies/Rowdies%2078-79%20Indoor%20Home%20Back%20Tommy%20Maurer,%20STrikers.jpg
  4. ↑ "Rowdies Defeat Strikers". Lakeland Ledger. January 28, 1979. p. 1C. Retrieved October 24, 2016 – via Google News Archive Search.
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