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The news that local soccer product Carlos Mendes is coming home to wear the number 4 jersey for his hometown team, the New York Cosmos, is welcome news to local fans who know him well from his rise from the Long Island Rough Riders to the Rochester Rhinos and then with the Red Bulls and Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer. But to fans of a certain age, the news triggers memories of another outs...

On November 24th, members of La Banda Del Cosmos had their first ever public meeting. At this meeting, members of this new Cosmos supporter group, along with the group's founders, Carlos Mieles, Lucas Vasquez and Victor Vaccaro, helped create a massive banner that will adorn their home in the supporters section for years to come. The banner, which measured a massive 60 feet in length, s...

Growing up a soccer crazy kid in Venezuela, ten-year-old Gio Savarese got the opportunity of a lifetime when he was invited in 1981 to attend the Pelé Soccer Camp in New York City. At the time, the young Savarese knew he wanted to be a professional soccer player but little did he know, this trip to New York would take him to the stadium where he would achieve legendary status as a player and to see the team that he would eventually manage.

Shep Messing was a goalkeeper for the New York Cosmos for three stints in the 1970's and 1980's. He was in net as the Cosmos famously won the NASL Championship in 1977 alongside Pelé, Giorgio Chinaglia, Carlos Alberto and Franz Beckenbauer. He was a local kid playing on a legendary team full of world class players.