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A SHORT HISTORY AND BACKGROUND ABOUT INDOOR SOCCER The game of indoor soccer was devised
in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1930 for use in YMCA programs. The 1st
international competition took place in 1965, when Paraguay won the 1st
South American Cup. 6 more South American Cup competitions were held
between 1965 and 1979.
The first FIFUSA World Cup was held in Sao Paolo, Brazil, in 1982 with Brazil taking out the& title. In 1985 at the 2nd World Cup in Spain, Brazil again won the championship, but Paraguay defeated them in 1988 at the 3rd World Cup in Australia. FIFA, the international governing body of soccer adopted this game in 1987, and in 1989, U.S. Futsal was integrated into FIFA. At the World Championships that year, Brazil won the title while the USA team won its highest FIFA award ever, finishing 3rd. In 1992, the United States. team improved its world ranking by taking out the Silver Medal. Then, in 1996, after winning the Gold Medal at the CONCACAF World Qualifiers, it finished Tenth at the World Championship in Spain. |
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Riding on the heels of the successful outdoor North American Soccer League in the late 1970s, 3 groups (including the NASL) raced to be the 1st to open an indoor circuit. After gathering the support of several arena owners, Ed Tepper and Earl Foreman won out, establishing the Major Indoor Soccer League In October, 1977. The League would field 6 teams that would play a Twenty four game schedule from December, 1978 to March of the next year. Over the league's fourteen seasons, its Thirty two franchises drew more than Twenty Seven million fans to its games, an average of 7,644 each match. Still, many wonder what the MISL might have been had the league been able to control its costs and survived another couple of years until the World Cup was played in the United States. Indoor Soccer leagues like the National Professional Soccer League (the renamed AISA), the World Indoor Soccer League and the defunct Continental Indoor Soccer League have been unable to replicate the MISL's attendance records, television exposure or popular attention. |
Not only do the current indoor soccer leagues owe their existence to the MISL, another sport does also. While watching a New York Arrows game at Madison Square Garden in 1981, National Football League marketing executive Jim Foster scribbled down a rough idea for an indoor football game on a manila envelope. He would go on to found the Arena Football League.
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