[NASL: Fall Preview] A new era in the North American Soccer League begins Saturday as the New York Cosmos open league play against the Fort Lauderdale Strikers. Inrecognition of their legacy, Pele and Carlos Alberto and the late GiorgioChinaglia will be honored in ceremonies before the game, one of four NASL matches to kick off its fall season.
The Cosmos, who did not participate in the spring half of the2013 season, recently returned from a trip to England, where they lost to third-level Leyton Orient, 2-1, before a crowd of 2,000 fans.
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