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5 unusual facts about Gordon Bradley


Gordon Bradley

He both played and coached the Cosmos through the end of the 1975 season when he was fired after a 10-12 season and replaced by Ken Furphy.

While he took the Cosmos to the 1972 NASL championship, he had two losing seasons in 1974 and 1975 and was fired at the end of the season and replaced by Ken Furphy.

Gordon Bradley (November 23, 1933 – April 29, 2008) was an English-American football (soccer) midfielder born and raised on Wearside who played several seasons with lower division English clubs before moving to play in Canada at the age of 30.

When the Generals folded, Bradley coached the boys soccer team of Manhattan’s St. Bernard's School.

The new team retained Bradley as coach, but fired him during the preseason and replaced him with Ken Furphy.


Harold Jarman

In 1974, Gordon Bradley, manager of the New York Cosmos, brought Jarman into the team to replace young American striker Joey Fink who had scored eleven goals in fourteen games in 1973.


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