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Once in a Lifetime, Paperback / softback Book

Once in a Lifetime Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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Now a documentary directed by Paul Crowder and John Dower, staring Ahmet Ertegun, Matt Dillon, Clive Toye. In 1971, Warner Brothers bought a local football team, the New York Cosmos.

In 1975 the club signed a three-year deal with Pele, the greatest player the game had ever known.

More big name signings would follow: the German superstar Franz Beckenbauer, the charismatic Italian striker Giorgio Chinaglia and Brazil's 1970 World Cup winning captain, Carlos Alberto.

Almost overnight, the Cosmos became the hottest ticket in town.

Celebrities like Robert Redford, Mick Jagger, Barbara Streisand and Steven Spielberg attended games.

Cosmos players were mainstays of the hedonistic club scene at Studio 54.

Set against the backdrop of a city on the edge, Once In A Lifetime is much more than a football book.

It is a vivid evocation of the mania that surrounded the Cosmos at the height of their powers in 1977 and the explosion in new forms of popular culture, the debauchery of Studio 54 and the razzmatazz and conspicuous expenditure that surrounded them.

It is a story that embraces millionaires, superstars, gangsters, groupies, glamour, power struggles, alcoholic excess, drugs, and full-on fistfights.

It also has some of the greatest football players ever to grace the game.

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