They both played...

January 30 2005 at 11:26 AM
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Response to What happened to the Strikers and Kickers?

 

at Mewata Stadium. It was a great venue for soccer.

Attendance was quite good. Mewata was packed for Kickers matches and was a madhouse when they won the whole shootin' match in 1987.

If memory serves, it was another case of poor ownership letting a Calgary soccer franchise slip through their fingers. The team (now called the Strikers) vanished after the '89 season.

Travel costs may have played a major factor. There were no low-cost airlines, like Westjet, around at the time.

The league folded in '92.

Ah, you've got me remembering the days of John Catliff in a Calgary uniform. We were unstoppable.

 
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