Cincinnati Kids
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The Cincinnati Kids were an indoor soccer team based out of Cincinnati that played in the original Major Indoor Soccer League.{{Cite news |last=Cunha |first=Peter |date=July 4, 2005 |title=Former player/coach establishes, runs soccer-only store |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/236803941/fulltext/5A93EE5D118443C6PQ/2 |access-date=2024-12-25 |work=Eastern Pennsylvania Business Journal |via=ProQuest}} Partially owned by Pete Rose,{{Cite news |last=Josten |first=Margaret |date=April 12, 1979 |title=West Shell Takes Aim On Area Soccer Craze |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-cincinnati-enquirer-west-shell-takes/161541121/ |access-date=2024-12-25 |work=The Cincinnati Enquirer |via=Newspapers.com}} the team played only in the 1978–79 MISL season. Their home arena was Riverfront Coliseum. In the Kids' only season in Cincinnati the average attendance was 3,191 per game.{{Citation needed|date=October 2012}}
Personnel
- Owner: {{flagicon|USA}} Pete Rose
- Head coach: {{flagicon|USA}} Len Bilous
1979 home schedule
- December 27, 1978 – vs Philadelphia Fever
- January 5, 1979 – vs New York Arrows
- January 7, 1979 – vs Houston Summit
- January 14, 1979 – vs Cleveland Force
- January 25, 1979 – vs Pittsburgh Spirit
- February 6, 1979 – vs Pittsburgh Spirit
- February 10, 1979 – vs Moscow Spartak
- February 13, 1979 – vs Houston Summit
- March 3, 1979 – vs Houston Summit
- March 4, 1979 – vs Cleveland Force
- March 10, 1979 – vs Philadelphia Fever
- March 18, 1979 – vs Pittsburgh Spirit
In popular culture
The Cincinnati Kids are referenced in "Sparky", an episode of the TV show WKRP in Cincinnati which guest-starred baseball great Sparky Anderson as himself. Anderson is hired by the station as host of a new sports talk radio program, and his first guest is the captain of the Cincinnati Kids, Derek Doogle, played by Andrew Bloch. The episode first aired December 24, 1979 after the team had folded.
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090303113106/http://www.sover.net/~spectrum/year/1979.html#MISL The Year in American Soccer – 1979]
- [http://www.nasljerseys.com/MISL/Rosters/Kids.Roster.htm#7879 Cincinnati Kids roster]
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Category:Defunct indoor soccer clubs in the United States
Category:Major Indoor Soccer League (1978–1992) teams
Category:1978 establishments in Ohio
Category:1979 disestablishments in Ohio
Category:Association football clubs established in 1978
Category:Association football clubs disestablished in 1979
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