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John Riordan: Celebrating the ups and downs of our Cosmopolitan century

There’s no football entity on the planet that could resemble the Cosmopolitan Soccer League which reaches the peak of its 100th anniversary celebrations this week.
John Riordan: Celebrating the ups and downs of our Cosmopolitan century

Pic: Cosmopolitan Soccer League/Instagram

It was a Shamrocks Sunday afternoon in Queens, about seven or eight Springs ago, and one of our home games had ended a little more tensely than the norm. Which is saying something.

That year’s campaign would culminate in a promotion season, dragging our first team out of the mire of Division 2 of the Cosmopolitan Soccer League and up to the top tier of one of the oldest amateur soccer leagues in America, not to mention probably the largest and most successful.

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