Maccabee Los Angeles

Maccabee Athletic Club
Maccabee Los Angeles' emblem
Full nameMaccabee Los Angeles
מכבי לוס אנג'לס
NicknameMaccabees
Founded1971 (competitive)
Dissolved1982
StadiumJackie Robinson Field
Capacity10,820
LeagueGreater Los Angeles Soccer League

Maccabee Athletic Club (Hebrew: מכבי לוס אנג'לס, MAH-KAH-Bee) was an American athletic club based in Los Angeles, California. The primary activity of the club was Maccabee Los Angeles Soccer Club, a team which competed professionally in the Greater Los Angeles Soccer League. The soccer club is notable for appearing in the US Open Cup final seven times in its eleven-year history, becoming one of only two teams to win the competition five times.[1]

History

Maccabee Los Angeles Soccer Club was formed by a group of Israeli expatriates to serve as a recreational Sunday soccer team.[2] The team began playing competitively in 1971 as part of the Greater Los Angeles Soccer League, with the addition of former Israeli national team players who had recently immigrated to the Los Angeles area. While the club used the Star of David and other Jewish symbols, the players came from various countries and many of them were not Jewish.[3] They won the Triple Crown twice in 1977 and 1978 by winning the Greater Los Angeles Soccer League, California State Cup and the US Open Cup. They qualified for the CONCACAF Champions Cup in 1974 and 1978 but withdrew before competing both times.[4] Maccabee Los Angeles played Bridgeport Vasco da Gama from Connecticut in the 1978 US Open Cup winning the final at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The match was part of a double header with the New York Cosmos and the Tampa Bay Rowdies of the North American Soccer League in front of 30,000 fans. Maccabee Los Angeles ceased operations after the 1982 season but Maccabee Athletic Club is still in existence for youth players.[3]

Honors

Past rosters

US Open Cup 1973

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
3 DF  GER Eric Braeden
2 DF  ISR Eli Marmur
8 MF  ISR Yarone Schmitman
7 MF  ISR Pinchas Benzaken
6 MF  ISR Genny Ben-Acote
4 DF  USA Mike Caspi
9 FW  ISR Moshe Hoftman
1 GK  ARG Eduardo Chantre
11 FW  MEX Miguel Cuevas
10 FW  ISR Benny Binshtock
5 DF  ARG Vicente Guiterez
12 FW  ISR Morris Storch
14 MF  USA Michael Meyer (historian)

US Open Cup 1975

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
2 DF  ISR Eli Marmur
10 MF  MEX Chon Miranda
11 FW  ISR Benny Binshtock
3? DF  MEX Daniel Salazar Gutierrez

US Open Cup 1977

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  ARG Eduardo Chantre
2 DF  ISR Eli Marmur
3 DF  USA Leo Kulinczenko
4 DF  BLZ Russell Hulse
8 MF  ISR Abraham Cohen
10 MF  MEX Manuel Mena
11 FW  ENG Guy Newman
9 FW  ROU Meir Segal
7 FW  ISR Benny Binshtock

US Open Cup 1978

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  ARG Eduardo Chantre
2 DF  ISR Eli Marmur
3 DF  USA Leo Kulinczenko
4 DF  BLZ Russell Hulse
5 DF  ISR Joseph Mizrahi
6 MF  ISR Abraham Cohen
7 FW  SLV Toni Moran
8 MF  ARG Ramon Sandounh
9 FW  ROU Meir Segal
10 MF  ESP Carlos Roveri
11 FW  ISR Izhar Mozik
12 FW  ISR Benny Binshtock
13 DF  USA Peter Gonzales

US Open Cup 1980

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  ARG Eduardo Chantre
4 DF  BLZ Russell Hulse
9 FW  USA Ole Mikkelsen
10 FW  USA Remon Douek
11 FW  TRI Tony Douglas

US Open Cup 1981

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  ARG Eduardo Chantre
4 DF  BLZ Russell Hulse
9 FW  TRI Tony Douglas
10 MF  NED Dan Ben Dror
11 FW  USA Remon Douek

US Open Cup 1982

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  ARG Eduardo Chantre
9 FW  TRI Tony Douglas
4 DF  BLZ Russell Hulse
10 FW  USA Remon Douek

US Open Cup results

  • 1973 Maccabee Los Angeles 5 vs Cleveland Inter Italian 3
  • 1975 Maccabee Los Angeles 1 vs New York Inter Giuliana 0
  • 1977 Maccabee Los Angeles 5 vs Philadelphia German-Hungarians 1
  • 1978 Maccabee Los Angeles 2 vs Bridgeport Vasco da Gama 0 (OT)
  • 1980 New York Pancyprian-Freedoms 3 vs Maccabee Los Angeles 2
  • 1981 Maccabee Los Angeles 5 vs Brooklyn Dodgers 1
  • 1982 New York Pancyprian-Freedoms 4 vs Maccabee Los Angeles 3 (OT)[1]

References

  1. 1 2 The other team to win five National Challenge Cups was Bethlehem Steel F.C."US Open Cup, National Challenge Cup history: Year-by-year - TheCup.us - Full Coverage of US Open Cup Soccer". thecup.us. May 15, 2015. Retrieved September 17, 2017.
  2. ↑ "The 1971–81 Maccabee Los Angeles Soccer Team". SoCal Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. 1998. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
  3. 1 2 Baxter, Kevin (August 30, 2019). "How Holocaust survivors, immigrants and a soap opera star formed a soccer powerhouse". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 30, 2019.
  4. ↑ "The Year in American Soccer - 1978". homepages.sover.net. Archived from the original on February 17, 2015. Retrieved September 17, 2017.


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