Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos
Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos

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A look back at one of the more curious fads in American professional sports, the sudden rise and precipitous fall of the North American Soccer League, spanning its existence 1968-1984, as seen through the experience of its most famous club, the New York Cosmos. The NASL made very little impact in the US, where soccer had virtually no following, until in 1975 the New York Cosmos succeeded in signing the most famous player in the world, Pele. Attendence for Cosmos games explode... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos:

Franz Beckenbauer
Raphael de la Sierra
Phil Woosnam
Jay Emmett
Werner Roth
Peppe Pinton

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A look back at one of the more curious fads in American professional sports, the sudden rise and precipitous fall of the North American Soccer League, spanning its existence 1968-1984, as seen through the experience of its most famous club, the New York Cosmos. The NASL made very little impact in the US, where soccer had virtually no following, until in 1975 the New York Cosmos succeeded in signing the most famous player in the world, Pele. Attendence for Cosmos games exploded, outdrawing even the New York Giants and New York Jets of the NFL, to where exhibition games in Seattle were drawing huge crowds, and when Pele announced his retirement in 1977 his final game drew the biggest crowd to ever see a soccer game in the US. His retirement from the game began a slow but steady decline for the NASL as money issues for the league and the spending practices of the Cosmos became a running controversy.

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Entertainment Weekly - 9/10 by Lisa SchwarzbaumIt's a stylish scramble of evocative footage, groovy music, and crazy-candid reminiscences from key players still proud to score.
New York Daily News - 8/10 by Jack MathewsOnce in a Lifetime performs a belated autopsy on the Cosmos and the North American Soccer League and basically concludes that they died of impatience.
New York Post - 8/10 by Lou LumenickOnce in a Lifetime, which is being released at the peak of World Cup fever, is the sort of sports documentary that will appeal even to nonfans. It's a quintessential only-in-New York story.
TV Guide Magazine - 8/10 by Maitland McDonaghCrowder and Dower's film is a refreshing reminder that without Ross and the Erteguns, pundits would have had to coin an entirely different term to describe "soccer moms," since without the Cosmos' brief and shining moment in the sun, suburban soccer leagues would be as rare as collegiate boccie tournaments.
Portland Oregonian - 8/10 by Shawn LevyFunky, scrappy, dishy, screwy story of that star-studded, gilded squad.
Chicago Tribune - 8/10 by Kevin WilliamsYou don't need to be a soccer fan to, like Cosmos fans, fall for this captivating tale, told in "Rashomon"-like style.
The A.V. Club - 7/10 by Scott TobiasOnce In A Lifetime is less a proper documentary than an extended VH1 Behind The Music episode, but there's only a little bit wrong with that.
Los Angeles Times - 7/10 by Kevin CrustAn exuberant look at a heady moment in America's soccer past that is well worth remembering.
The Hollywood Reporter - 7/10 by Frank ScheckThis tale of the team that for a brief period in the 1970s promised to popularize soccer in the U.S. has it all: heroes, villains, sex and, oh yes, some sports as well.
The New York Times - 7/10 by Jeannette CatsoulisThis is a movie so unabashedly in love with its subject that even audiences who don't know Giorgio Chinaglia from Georgie Best will leave the theater grinning.

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