They might not have players like Pelé or Franz Beckenbauer anymore, but the New York Cosmos are getting back on the soccer pitch—in New Jersey.
For much of the modern era of soccer in the United States, the Cosmos have been nothing but part of history. Once famed as a powerhouse in the defunct North American Soccer League, the Cosmos faded into obscurity in the mid-1980s, before reviving itself in the new second division, NASL, from 2010 to 2017.
