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The Atlanta Chiefs were an American professional soccer team based in Atlanta, Georgia.^[1]

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1967 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
1973 disestablishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
1979 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
1981 disestablishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Association football clubs disestablished in 1981
Aston Villa F.C.
Defunct soccer clubs in Georgia (U.S. state)
National Professional Soccer League (1967) franchises
Soccer clubs in Atlanta
Soccer clubs in Georgia (U.S. state)

Adrian Brooks

Adrian Brooks (born 2 October 1957) is a former professional footballer who spent two seasons in the North American Soccer League and at least one in the Major Indoor Soccer League.

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Art Welch

Art Welch (born 16 April 1944) is a Jamaican former professional soccer player who played in the North American Soccer League and Major Indoor Soccer League.

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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.

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Aston Villa F.C.

Aston Villa Football Club (commonly referred to as simply Villa) is a professional football club based in Aston, Birmingham, England.

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Atlanta

Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Atlanta Braves

The Atlanta Braves are an American professional baseball team based in the Atlanta metropolitan area.

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Atlanta Daily World

The Atlanta Daily World is the oldest black newspaper in Atlanta, Georgia, founded in 1928.

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Atlanta Falcons

The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta.

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Atlanta Hawks

The Atlanta Hawks are an American professional basketball team based in Atlanta.

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Atlanta United FC

Atlanta United FC is an American professional soccer club based in Atlanta. Atlanta Chiefs and Atlanta United FC are soccer clubs in Atlanta.

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Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium

Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium, often referred to as Fulton County Stadium and originally named Atlanta Stadium, was a multi-purpose stadium located in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Baltimore Bays

The Baltimore Bays were a professional soccer team based in Baltimore, Maryland founded in 1967 as one of the ten charter members of the National Professional Soccer League (NPSL). Atlanta Chiefs and Baltimore Bays are association football clubs established in 1967, national Professional Soccer League (1967) franchises and north American Soccer League (1968–1984) teams.

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Barrie Lynch

Barrie John Lynch (born 8 June 1951) is an English former professional footballer who played as a full back.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Bobby Dodd Stadium

Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field is the football stadium located at the corner of North Avenue at Techwood Drive on the campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

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Bolton Wanderers F.C.

Bolton Wanderers Football Club is a professional association football club based in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England.

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Brian Kidd

Brian Kidd (born 29 May 1949) is an English football coach and former player, who was most recently assistant coach of Manchester City, alongside manager Pep Guardiola.

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Bruce Savage

William Bruce Savage is an American former soccer player who played as a defender.

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Caribous of Colorado

The Caribous of Colorado were an American soccer team that competed in the North American Soccer League (NASL) during the 1978 season. Atlanta Chiefs and Caribous of Colorado are north American Soccer League (1968–1984) teams.

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Carl Strong

Carl Strong (born January 21, 1958, in Annandale, Virginia) is a former U.S. soccer midfielder who spent seven seasons in the North American Soccer League.

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CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.

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Championship ring

A championship ring or premiership ring is a ring presented to members of winning teams in North American professional sports leagues, and college tournaments.

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Clayton County, Georgia

Clayton County is located in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Cox Enterprises

Cox Enterprises, Inc., is an American privately held global conglomerate headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, with approximately 55,000 employees and $21 billion in total revenue.

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Dallas Tornado

The Dallas Tornado was a soccer team based in Dallas, Texas that played in the North American Soccer League (NASL) from 1967 to 1981. Atlanta Chiefs and Dallas Tornado are association football clubs disestablished in 1981, association football clubs established in 1967, defunct indoor soccer clubs in the United States and north American Soccer League (1968–1984) teams.

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Dan Wood (soccer)

Daniel Phillip Wood (May 21, 1946 – May 7, 2020) was an American collegiate and professional soccer coach.

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Dave Metchick

David John Metchick (born 14 August 1943) is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder in England and the United States.

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David Byrne (soccer, born 1960)

David Byrne is an English-born South African soccer coach and former professional player.

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David Edwin Chadwick (born 19 August 1943) is an English former football player and manager.

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DAZN

DAZN (pronounced "da zone") is a British over-the-top sports streaming and entertainment platform.

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Delroy Scott

Delroy Scott (22 January 1947 – 24 July 2018) was a Jamaican footballer who played at both professional and international levels as a midfielder.

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Detroit Express

The Detroit Express were a soccer team based in suburban Detroit that played in the now defunct North American Soccer League (NASL) from 1978 to 1980. Atlanta Chiefs and Detroit Express are association football clubs disestablished in 1981, defunct indoor soccer clubs in the United States and north American Soccer League (1968–1984) teams.

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Dixie (song)

"Dixie", also known as "Dixie's Land", "I Wish I Was in Dixie", and other titles, is a song about the Southern United States first made in 1859.

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Elliott H. Levitas

Elliott Harris Levitas (December 26, 1930 – December 16, 2022) was an American politician and lawyer from Georgia.

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Emment Kapengwe

Emment Kapengwe (27 April 1943 – 17 September 1988) was one of Zambia's leading footballers in the '60s and he represented the country at independence in October 1964.

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Emory University

Emory University is a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia.

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The English football league system, also known as the football pyramid, is a series of interconnected leagues for men's association football clubs in England, with five teams from Wales, one from Guernsey, one from Jersey and one from the Isle of Man also competing.

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Evening Independent

The Evening Independent was St. Petersburg, Florida's first daily newspaper.

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The Football League First Division was a division of the Football League in England from 1888 until 2004.

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Fort Lauderdale Strikers (1977–1983)

The Fort Lauderdale Strikers were a professional soccer team based in the Miami metropolitan area. Atlanta Chiefs and Fort Lauderdale Strikers (1977–1983) are defunct indoor soccer clubs in the United States and north American Soccer League (1968–1984) teams.

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Freddie Mwila

Freddie Mwila (born 6 July 1946) is a Zambian former association football player and coach.

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George Nanchoff

George Nanchoff (born 1954 in Resen, Yugoslavia (SR Macedonia)) is a retired Yugoslavian-American soccer player.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia, officially the State of Georgia, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Georgia General Assembly

The Georgia General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Georgia State University

Georgia State University (Georgia State, State, or GSU) is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Georgia Tech

The Georgia Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Georgia Tech and GT or, in the state of Georgia, as Tech or the Institute) is a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Goal (website)

Goal, stylized in all caps and alternatively known as Goal.com, is a website currently dedicated to the coverage of international association football.

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Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

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Google News Archive

Google News Archive is an extension of Google News providing free access to scanned archives of newspapers and links to other newspaper archives on the web, both free and paid.

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Indoor soccer

Indoor soccer or arena soccer (known internationally as indoor football, or fast football) is a five-a-side or six-a-side version of minifootball, derived from association football and adapted to be played in walled hardcourt indoor arena.

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James R. Hallford Stadium

James R. Hallford Stadium is a football stadium in Clarkston, Georgia.

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John Cocking

John Cocking (born 13 May 1944) is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender.

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Jomo Sono

Ephraim Matsilele Sono OIS (born Madoda Walletjies Mkulwana, 17 July 1955), better known as Jomo Sono, is a South African football club owner, coach and former professional footballer.

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Kaizer Chiefs F.C.

Kaizer Chiefs Football Club (often known as Chiefs) are a South African professional football club based in Naturena, Johannesburg South, that plays in the Betway Premiership.

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Kaizer Motaung

Kaizer Motaung OIS (born 16 October 1944) is a former South African association football player and founder of Kaizer Chiefs FC, of which he is chairman and managing director.

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Kansas City Spurs

The Kansas City Spurs were an American professional soccer team who played in the North American Soccer League, based in Kansas City, Missouri. Atlanta Chiefs and Kansas City Spurs are association football clubs established in 1967 and north American Soccer League (1968–1984) teams.

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Keith Furphy

Keith Furphy (born 30 July 1958) is an English-American former professional footballer who played forward or winger, spending most of his career in the United States.

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Ken Bracewell

Ken Bracewell (born 5 October 1936) is an English former professional football player and coach.

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A kick-off is the method of starting and, in some cases, restarting play in a game of association football.

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Louis Nanchoff

Louis "Louie" Nanchoff (born May 13, 1956, in Resen, Yugoslavia) is a retired U.S.-Yugoslavian soccer player.

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Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of organized baseball in the United States and Canada.

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Malcolm Allison

Malcolm Alexander Allison (5 September 1927 – 14 October 2010) was an English football player and manager.

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Manchester City F.C.

Manchester City Football Club is a professional football club based in Manchester, England.

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Mark MacKain

Mark MacKain is a retired American soccer defender who played in the North American Soccer League, Major Indoor Soccer League and American Soccer League.

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Mick Hoban

Michael Hoban (born 6 April 1952) is a former professional soccer player who played as a midfielder.

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MLS Cup 2018

MLS Cup 2018 was the 23rd edition of the MLS Cup, the championship match of Major League Soccer (MLS), which took place on December 8, 2018.

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NASL Final 1968

NASL Final 1968 was the North American Soccer League's postseason championship final of the 1968 season, and the first championship final for the NASL.

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NASL Final 1971

NASL Final 1971 was the championship series of the 1971 season.

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National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada).

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The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC).

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National Professional Soccer League (1967)

The National Professional Soccer League (NPSL) was a North American professional soccer league that existed for only the 1967 season before merging with the United Soccer Association (USA) to form the North American Soccer League.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.

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New York Cosmos (1970–1985)

The New York Cosmos (simply the Cosmos in 1977–1978) were an American professional soccer club based in New York City and its suburbs. Atlanta Chiefs and New York Cosmos (1970–1985) are defunct indoor soccer clubs in the United States and north American Soccer League (1968–1984) teams.

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North American Soccer League (1968–1984)

The North American Soccer League (NASL) was the top-level major professional soccer league in the United States and Canada that operated from 1968 to 1984.

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Omni Coliseum

Omni Coliseum (often called The Omni) was an indoor arena in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

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Paul Child (soccer)

Paul Child (born December 8, 1952) is an English-American former soccer player who played as a forward, spending nine seasons in the North American Soccer League.

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Pelé

Edson Arantes do Nascimento (23 October 1940 – 29 December 2022), better known by his nickname Pelé, was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a forward.

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Peter McParland

Peter James McParland MBE (born 25 April 1934) is a Northern Irish former professional footballer who played as an outside left.

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Phil Woosnam

Phillip Abraham Woosnam (22 December 1932 – 19 July 2013) was a Welsh association football inside-right and manager.

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Premier Soccer League

The Premier Soccer League (PSL; Premier Sokkerliga) is the professional soccer leagues-and-cups administrator in South Africa based in Johannesburg and founded in 1996 following an agreement between the National Soccer League and the remnants of the National Professional Soccer League (NPSL).

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Ray Bloomfield

Raymond George Bloomfield (born 15 October 1944 in Kensington, London) is an English former professional footballer who played in the Football League as a winger for Aston Villa, in the National Professional Soccer League for the Atlanta Chiefs, and in the North American Soccer League for Atlanta and the Dallas Tornado.

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Real Times

Real Times Media LLC is the owner and publisher of the Chicago Defender, the largest and most influential African American weekly newspaper, as well as five other regional weeklies in the eastern and Midwestern United States.

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Ron Newman

Ronald Vernon Newman (19 January 1934 – 27 August 2018) was an English professional association football player and coach.

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Rowman & Littlefield

Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an American independent academic publishing company founded in 1949.

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San Diego Toros

The San Diego Toros were a professional soccer team based in San Diego, California. Atlanta Chiefs and San Diego Toros are national Professional Soccer League (1967) franchises and north American Soccer League (1968–1984) teams.

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Santos FC

Santos Futebol Clube is a Brazilian sports club based in Vila Belmiro, a bairro in the city of Santos.

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SB Nation

SB Nation (an abbreviation for their full name SportsBlogs Nation) is a sports blogging network owned by Vox Media.

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Slobo Ilijevski

Slobodan "Slobo" Ilijevski (Cyrillic: Слободан Илијевски Слобо) (October 24, 1949 in Skopje, Yugoslavia – July 14, 2008 in Bellingham, Washington) was a Yugoslav and Macedonian football (soccer) goalkeeper who played in the North American Soccer League and Major Indoor Soccer League.

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Sonny Carter

Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr., M.D. (August 15, 1947 – April 5, 1991), (Capt, USN), was an American chemist, physician, professional soccer player, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut who flew on STS-33.

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Sports in Atlanta

Sports in Atlanta has a rich history, including the oldest on-campus NCAA Division I football stadium, Bobby Dodd Stadium, built in 1913 by the students of Georgia Tech.

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Ted Turner

Robert Edward Turner III (born November 19, 1938) is an American entrepreneur, television producer, media proprietor, and philanthropist.

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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) is an American daily newspaper based in metropolitan area of Atlanta, Georgia.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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The Washington Times

The Washington Times is an American conservative daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It covers general interest topics with an emphasis on national politics.

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Thomas Dunne Books

Thomas Dunne Books was an imprint of St. Martin's Press, which is a division of Macmillan Publishers.

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United Press International

United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century until its eventual decline beginning in the early 1980s.

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United Soccer Association

The United Soccer Association (USA) was a professional soccer league featuring teams based in the United States and Canada.

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Uriel da Veiga

Uriel Da Veiga (born August 28, 1940) is a retired Brazilian football (soccer) player who played professionally in the North American Soccer League and National Professional Soccer League.

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