History of the 1986

Western Soccer Alliance The Western Soccer Alliance was a professional soccer league featuring teams from the West Coast of the United States and Western Canada. The league began in 1985 as the Western Alliance Challenge Series. In 1986, it became the Western Soccer ...

season.

History

After the success of the 1985 Western Alliance Challenge Series, three of the teams from that series, F.C. Seattle,

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and the

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established the

. The

Victoria Riptide Victoria Riptides (also known as the RipTides and Riptide) were a professional association football, soccer team based out of Victoria, British Columbia. The team played for two seasons; the 1984 season of the Pacific Coast Soccer League, and 1985 ...

, a participant in 1985, did not return but was replaced by the

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which had played games against the series team in 1985. These teams were joined by the

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and San Diego Nomads expanded the alliance from its Northwest Pacific roots into southern California. The Alliance played a regular season schedule only. Continuing the previous season's tradition of playing with a guest team - in that year, the

, who had subsequently joined the league proper for 1986 - the Western Soccer Alliance this time sought two guest teams, turning this time to the

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. The two teams recruited were the English

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side

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and Scottish Premier Division side

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, who each played one away match against each team and played no home fixtures. In the event, F.C. Portland were unable to play their game against Manchester City, instead rescheduling their game for later in the season, and replacing City - who had returned to England for the start of their own season - with a team composed of former

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players.

League standings

Results

Points leaders

Honors

* MVP: Paul Caligiuri * Leading goal scorer: Brent Goulet * Leading goalkeeper: Lorenzo Caccialanza *First Team All League :Goalkeeper: Lorenzo Caccialanza :Defenders: Dale Ervine,

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:Midfielders: Paul Caligiuri, Dennis Gunnel, Hugo Perez :Forwards:

Chance Fry Chance Fry (born June 29, 1964, in Bellevue, Washington) is a retired U.S. soccer forward who began his career straight out of high school with the Seattle Sounders of the North American Soccer League. With the collapse of the NASL, he moved t ...

, Brent Goulet, Jeff Hooker, Mark Miller *Second Team All League :Goalkeeper: Todd Strobeck :Defenders: Mark Arquette, Jens Ole-Knudsen, Scott Murray, Tim Schulz :Midfielders: Drew Ferguson, Doug Swanson :Forwards: Tim Barto, Ross Ongaro, Rob Ryerson, Dzung Tran

References

The Year in American Soccer - 1986
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