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When Beckenbauer arrived at the New York Cosmos in 1977, he was one of many foreign superstars lured in by the promise of the North American Soccer League. The league was born in 1968 but launched into public consciousness in 1975 with the arrival of Brazilian legend Pele.
“If you go there [to an established European or South American club], all you can win is a championship,” Cosmos GM Clive Toye
Pele at the time. “Come here,…
